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Author: Mark Lee Gardner Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 232
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A profusely illustrated history that identifies wagon makers and wagon types that for a half-century hauled commercial goods over the Santa Fe Trail.
Author: Mark Lee Gardner Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
A profusely illustrated history that identifies wagon makers and wagon types that for a half-century hauled commercial goods over the Santa Fe Trail.
Author: National Park Service Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781497529212 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 146
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The first wagons to cross the plains from Missouri to New Mexico were part of William Becknell's 1822 Santa Fe trading expedition. The year previous, Becknell and five companions had been the first American traders to penetrate the newly independent Mexican nation. The handsome profits realized on that venture were the driving force behind the considerably more ambitious second expedition, which set out for Santa Fe within nine months of the first.According to Becknell's now-famous "journal," first published in the pages of the Missouri lntelligencer in 1823, his 1822 company consisted of "21 men, with three waggons. "1 It appears that only one of the wagons belonged to the expedition's leader, however.2 This wagon, it was later reported, had cost $150 in Missouri and was sold by Becknell in New Mexico for $700.3 The other wagons were probably disposed of in a like manner; they do not seem to have returned to Missouri. What these wagons looked like, their hauling capacities, and where they were made and by whom- all this is unknown. Their importance, however, is unquestioned. They proved that merchandise laden wagons could navigate the 800-plus miles between Franklin, Missouri, and Santa Fe--a remarkable feat that did not go unnoticed.No wagons were reported on the Santa Fe Trail in 1823, but the 1824 caravan contained an amazing assemblage of vehicles. Meredith Miles Marmaduke, a member of this company, recorded in his diary on May 24 that they traveled with "2 road waggons, 20 dearborns, 2 carts and one small piece of cannon. "4 Augustus Storrs, another member of the expedition, wrote some months later that there had been "twenty-three four-wheeled vehicles, one of which was a common road wagon. "5 Although Marmaduke and Storrs do not agree on the number of vehicles in the caravan, it is important to note their use of the term "road wagon." According to transportation historian Don Berkebile, in his Carriage Terminology: An Historical Dictionary, the term has two definitions. One describes a vehicle also known as a buggy. The term was "also loosely applied," Berkebile tells us, "to larger WAGONS that were employed in the movement of materials or merchandise over the roads. "6 The second definition is probably the one intended by Marmaduke and Storrs; Santa Fe trader and historian Josiah Gregg uses "road-wagon" in his Commerce of the Prairies (1844) to denote freight wagons.7 Although the term leaves us to speculate on the appearance of these vehicles, it is possible that the road wagons in the 1824 caravan were the first actual freight wagons to travel the Santa Fe Trail.8
Author: James Josiah Webb Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803297722 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 308
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James Josiah Webb left Independence, Missouri, in the summer of 1844 and headed down the Santa Fe Trail with goods bought in St. Louis. Although his first venture as a trader was a failure, he eventually made a fortune as a merchant in Santa Fe. Webb recorded his youthful experiences in 1888, and Ralph P. Bieber, a respected scholar and researcher on western expansion, edited and annotated his journal for publication more than forty years later. Long out of print, Adventures in the Santa Fe Trade is an entertaining and important source of first-hand information about the Santa Fe Trail and trade; trappers, Mexicans, and Indian tribes of the Old Southwest; and the impact of the Mexican War on southwestern trade.
Author: Henry Pickering Walker Publisher: ISBN: 9780806119830 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 388
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From 1822, when the first wagons were used in the Santa Fe trade, until 1880, when the completion of major railroad lines made the wagon train all but obsolete, wagon freighting was essential to the trade, settlement, and growth of the American West, from the Missouri Valley to the Great Basin. Freighters carried goods to and from Santa Fe, bringing in much of the trade goods for the settlements of the Mountain West. Under contract to the government, they supplied the army sent to fight Mexicans and American Indians. Without the wagonmasters, the flow of gold from the mines of Colorado and Montana, which proved essential during the Civil War, would have been delayed at least a decade. The Wagonmasters is the first comprehensive account of this colorful bygone industry and the men who worked the wagon trains--bullwhackers and mule skinners. A breed apart, they developed their own customs and language, greatly enriching American speech. The business was hard, dirty, and dangerous, but the wagon freighters, like the U.S. mail, almost always came through.
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: Doug Hocking Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1493041800 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 409
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*Winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Nonfiction* In the 1840s and 50s, the Jicarilla Apache were the terror of the Santa Fe Trail and the Rio Arriba. They repeatedly clashed with the cavalry and raided wagon trains, and there was bad blood between the band and the Army after the Battle of San Pasqual, when they were on opposite sides during the Mexican American War. In 1854, as traffic was on the increase along the historic trade route, the Jicarilla soundly defeated the 1st United States Dragoons in the Battle of Cieneguilla. Cieneguilla was the worst defeat of the US Army in the West up to that time, and it was just one of the first major battles between the US Army and Apache forces during the Ute Wars. According to one version of events, the 60 dragoons, under the direction of a Lt. Davidson, had engaged in an unauthorized attack on theJicarilla while they were out on patrol. Others claimed that the Jicarilla either ambushed the Army or taunted them into attack. Kit Carson, who was agent for the Jicarilla, would defend Davidson’s actions—and after this fight, he served as a scout against the Jicarilla. Much like the Sioux defeat of Custer at Little Big Horn, the Jicarilla’s victory over the Army led to retribution and disaster. The Jicarilla were defeated and faded from memory before the Civil War. These are the events that brought them to ruin.
Author: Ronald J. Dulle Publisher: ISBN: 9780878425716 Category : Frontier and pioneer life Languages : en Pages : 0
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Compared to such famous frontier paths as Lewis and Clark's route and the Oregon Trail, most people know little about the seminal trade route we call the Santa Fe Trail, yet this rough wagon road endured longer than any other American trail west of the Mississippi River. From 1821 to 1880, bold and daring men loaded their wagons with trade goods and set out from Missouri to Santa Fe, in the newly independent nation of Mexico. These merchants, teamsters, and travelers exchanged not only material goods, but also ideas and customs, forever altering the cultural and political landscape for American, Mexican, and Indian peoples along the route. Taking the reader on an imaginative tour from end to end, author Ronald Dulle often stops to explore how wagon trains are organized or what a campsite looks like; to notice the strange food, clothing, and habits of the day; or to imagine the feeling of a rainy day in the saddle. With dozens of stunning color photographs and a fascinating narrative, Dulle helps readers envision the frontier experience and appreciate the myriad material and cultural changes the Santa Fe Trail brought to our growing nation.
Author: Stephen Garrison Hyslop Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806133898 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 540
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The political, military, and social importance of the Santa Fe trail is revealed in this lively historical account of one of the most important roads in American history.
Author: Mark Lee Gardner
Author: Mark Lee Gardner
Author: National Park Service
Author: James Josiah Webb
Author: Henry Pickering Walker
Author: Stanley Vestal
Author: Robert P. Marple
Author: James A. Crutchfield
Author: Doug Hocking
Author: Ronald J. Dulle
Author: Stephen Garrison Hyslop