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Gold had just been discovered in California at the close of the Mexican War when Kit Carson started east from Los Angeles with dispatches. Going with him was Lieutenant George Douglas Brewerton, who describes their journey over the Old Spanish Trail. It was a torturous route across deserts and mountains requiring the kind of expert survival skills that made Kit Carson famous. The scout, who was carrying the news that would begin the rush for gold,...
Author
Series
Southwest historical volume 1
Publisher
Porcupine Press
Pub. Date
1974
Physical Desc
301 p. illus. 24 cm.
Language
English
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Yale Western Americana paperbound volume YW-3
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1982] c1962
Physical Desc
xxxv, 294 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
1984.
Physical Desc
xiv, 163 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Santa Fe Trail was one of the great commercial routes across the West, frequented more by merchants than by emigrants. Hence women travelers were few on the Santa Fe Trail, and Land of Enchantment is one of the few firsthand accounts by a woman of life on the trail. The author, Marian Russell (1845-1936), dictated her story to her daughter-in-law in the 1930s. Published in a limited edition in 1954 and highly praised by scholars, that edition...
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Southwestern studies volume monograph no. 68
Publisher
Texas Western Press
Pub. Date
c1982
Physical Desc
89 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
c1993
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IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill., 1 col. map ; 23 x 28 cm.
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English
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In 1852, seven-year-old Marion Sloan travels with her mother and older brother in a wagon train along the Santa Fe Trail, experiencing both hardship and wonder.
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