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Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico

The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin 1846-1847

by Susan S. Magoffin; Howard R. Lamar (Foreword by); Stella Drumm (Translator)

Synopsis

In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Mexico and south to Chihuahua. Her travel journal was written at a crucial time, when the Mexican War was beginning and New Mexico was occupied by Stephen Watts Kearny and the Army of the West.

Her journal describes the excitement, routine, and dangers of a successful merchant's wife. On

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Book Information

Copyright year 1962
ISBN-13 9780803281165
ISBN-10 0803281161
Class Copyright
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Subject HISTORY
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 276
Shelf No. KK759