Author: Josiah Gregg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Commerce of the Prairies
Author: Josiah Gregg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Commerce of the Prairies
Author: Josiah Gregg
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Commerce of the Prairies
Author: Josiah Gregg
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806110592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Written as a scrupulously accurate guidebook to the prairies and as an authoritative account of the early Santa Fe trade, Commerce of the Prairies has been a favorite of historians, ethnologists, naturalists, and collectors of Western Americana for generations. But Gregg’s masterpiece is not for specialists alone: its vivid descriptions of desert mirages, wagon caravans, Indian alarms and attacks, buffalo hunts, and other early Western phenomena will delight all who wish to know the country as it was before the great herds of buffalo were slaughtered and the roving Indians confined to reservations, before the landscape was transformed by barbed wire, domestic cattle, plowed fields, and modern highways. Josiah Gregg, a man of rare sensitivity and passionate science interest, joined a caravan of traders bound for Santa Fé in 1831 and almost immediately developed a fascination for the adventure-packed life of Santa Fé trader. And during the ten years that he engaged in the San Fé trade, Gregg took copious notes on the life and landscape of the American prairies and the Mexican plateau, later utilizing them in Commerce of the Prairies. This new edition faithfully follows the rare first edition, to and including the maps and illustrations. It will be welcomed both by readers familiar with the importance and interest of Gregg’s work and by readers who have yet to discover its attraction.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806110592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Written as a scrupulously accurate guidebook to the prairies and as an authoritative account of the early Santa Fe trade, Commerce of the Prairies has been a favorite of historians, ethnologists, naturalists, and collectors of Western Americana for generations. But Gregg’s masterpiece is not for specialists alone: its vivid descriptions of desert mirages, wagon caravans, Indian alarms and attacks, buffalo hunts, and other early Western phenomena will delight all who wish to know the country as it was before the great herds of buffalo were slaughtered and the roving Indians confined to reservations, before the landscape was transformed by barbed wire, domestic cattle, plowed fields, and modern highways. Josiah Gregg, a man of rare sensitivity and passionate science interest, joined a caravan of traders bound for Santa Fé in 1831 and almost immediately developed a fascination for the adventure-packed life of Santa Fé trader. And during the ten years that he engaged in the San Fé trade, Gregg took copious notes on the life and landscape of the American prairies and the Mexican plateau, later utilizing them in Commerce of the Prairies. This new edition faithfully follows the rare first edition, to and including the maps and illustrations. It will be welcomed both by readers familiar with the importance and interest of Gregg’s work and by readers who have yet to discover its attraction.
Prairie Time
Author: Matt White
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603445560
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Matt White's connections with both prairie plants and prairie people are evident in the stories of discovery and inspiration he tells as he tracks the ever dwindling parcels of tallgrass prairie in northeast Texas. In his search, he stumbles upon some unexpected fragments of virgin land, as well as some remarkable tales of both destruction and stewardship.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603445560
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Matt White's connections with both prairie plants and prairie people are evident in the stories of discovery and inspiration he tells as he tracks the ever dwindling parcels of tallgrass prairie in northeast Texas. In his search, he stumbles upon some unexpected fragments of virgin land, as well as some remarkable tales of both destruction and stewardship.
Commerce of the Prairies
Author: Josiah Gregg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Down the Santa Fé Trail and Into Mexico
Author: Susan Shelby Magoffin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Bound for Santa Fe
Author: Stephen Garrison Hyslop
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
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.
Adventures in the Santa Fä Trade, 1844-1847
Author: James Josiah Webb
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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.
The Santa Fe Trail
Author: David Dary
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700618708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700618708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
New Mexico's Royal Road
Author: Max L. Moorhead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camino Real
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A study of the classic north-south highway connecting Santa Fe and Chihauhau, pioneered by Onate in 1598.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camino Real
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A study of the classic north-south highway connecting Santa Fe and Chihauhau, pioneered by Onate in 1598.