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Author: Jean Kinney Williams Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1496664868 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 43
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Adventure awaits on the Santa Fe Trail! Learn why this trail was created and why it was so important to the development of the United States.
Author: Jean Kinney Williams Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1496664868 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 43
Book Description
Adventure awaits on the Santa Fe Trail! Learn why this trail was created and why it was so important to the development of the United States.
Author: James A. Crutchfield Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1493039873 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 161
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The Santa Fe Trail’s role as the major western trade route in the early to mid-nineteenth century made it a critical part of America’s Westward expansion and the stories of its heyday include some of the greatest adventures in the history of the Old West. Drawn from first-hand accounts of early entrepreneurs and emigrants who braved the Santa Fe Trail between 1820 and 1880, this history reveals the lure of the West and puts its importance to American history in context. On the Santa Fe Trail paints a portrait of the land before the wagon tracks were carved in its surface and recounts the hardships, dangers, and adventures faced by the hardy souls who went West to make their fortunes.
Author: Jessica Rusick Publisher: Capstone Press ISBN: 1496690508 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 33
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In the early 1800s, thousands of pioneers made a long, perilous westward journey from Missouri to New Mexico. They paved the way for more settlers looking to start a new life in the West. They endured many hardships and made many tough choices. Now the choices are yours. Would you rather get bitten by a poisonous snake or suffer from cholera? Would you take the longer route across mountains with more available water? Or would you take the shorter route across the desert with less water? It's your turn to pick this or that!
Author: Stanley Vestal Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803296152 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 332
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The Santa Fe Trail was one of the two great overland highways originating in Missouri in the nineteenth century. Several decades before settlers streamed over the Oregon Trail, traders were heading southwest. The caravans carried the wares of Yankee commerce; they returned loaded with buffalo robes and beaver pelts and the rich metals of Mexican mines. The thousand-mile journey “was a perilous cruise across a boundless sea of grass, over forbidding mountains, among wild beasts and wilder men, ending in an exotic city offering quick riches, friendly foreign women, and a moral holiday,” writes Stanley Vestal. Vestal begins where the trail does. He describes outfitting for the trip, the society formed for survival, the hunt for meat, landmarks, and the dangers. He evokes the history and legends surrounding the trail at every point, including figures like Kit Carson, Jedediah Smith, the Bent brothers, and Uncle Dick Wooton.
Author: David Dary Publisher: Knopf ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 392
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From 1610, when the Spanish founded the city of Santa Fe, to the 1860s, when the railroad brought unprecedented changes: here is the full, fascinating story of the great Santa Fe Trail which ran between Missouri and Kansas and New Mexico--a lifeline to and from the Southwest for more than two centuries. Drawing from letters, journals, expedition reports, business records, and newspaper stories, David Dary--one of our foremost historians of the Old West--brings to life the people who laid down the trail and opened commerce with Spanish America: Native Americans and mountain men, traders, trappers, and freighters, surveyors and soldiers, men and women of many different nationalities. Their firsthand accounts let us experience up close the spectacular scenery; the details of camping out in both friendly and hostile Indian territory; the constant danger from natural disasters or sudden attack; the hardworking, often maverick men who were employed on the wagon trains; the pleasures and entertainments at the southern end of the journey. The book makes clear how in the early years trade started and stopped at the whim of the Spanish, and how the trail finally grew and prospered, bringing the settlement of new towns and the creation of new wealth along the route. We also learn how the rapid spread of the railroads across the country inexorably replaced the long caravans of mule- and ox-drawn wagons, and the way of life they represented. With his comprehensive knowledge and his exceptional storytelling skills, David Dary has given us a vivid re-creation of an important time and place in American history.
Author: Jean Kinney Williams
Author: Jean Kinney Williams
Author: James A. Crutchfield
Author: Susan Shelby Magoffin
Author: Jessica Rusick
Author: Stanley Vestal
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Author: Walter D. Yoder
Author: Jean F. Blashfield
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