Stanley Vestal
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
6) Mountain men
Author
Physical Desc
x pages, 2 leaves, 296 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English