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: James Josiah Webb
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Author: Ralph Paul Bieber
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
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This bibliography differs from the previous publications in this series since it concerns a specific time in American history, the Mexican War period from 1835 to 1850. From a military standpoint, the victorious efforts of American military forces can be considered as the proving ground for the Army and the Navy that emerged during the Civil War. The annexation of Texas and the acquisition of lands from Mexico predestined both the expansion of the United States to the Pacific and the conflict which divided brother from brother. This bibliography lists pertinent materials to be found in the Military History Research Collection related to this part of American history and is not intended to be a definite listing of bibliographic references on the period.
Author: Richard Smith Elliott
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806129518
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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An entertaining and educated observer, Elliott provided readers back home with an account of the grueling march over the famous Santa Fe Trail, the triumphant entry of the army into Santa Fe, the U.S. occupation of New Mexico, and the volunteers' eventual return to St. Louis.
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: US Army Military History Research Collection
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Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Author: Howard Roberts Lamar
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826322487
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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A history of the Four Corners states during their formative territorial years. Newly revised edition.
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2352
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Author: US Army Military History Research Collection
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Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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