Add to ORKGIn the fall of 1856, wealthy James Ross Larkin of St. Louis joined a wagon train headed by William Bent, bound for the trader\u27s post on the Santa Fe Trail. Seeking relief from chronic health problems, Larkin instead found adventure. His heretofore unpublished journal of his trip and subsequent travels in New Mexico provides a rare glimpse into antebellum southwestern life. Besides the extensively annotated diary, Barbour also includes background introductions to Larkin, the Santa Fe Trail, the frontier of health seekers, and an 1856 comparison between the trail\u27s endpoints of St. Louis and Santa Fe
The history of the Sante Fe Trail has been repeated many times, often with the same material told in...
"This attractively bound volume contains the diary of John Steele who in the company of other advent...
Review of: Journal of a Tamed Bureaucrat: Nils A. Olsen and the BAE, 1925-1935. Olsen, Nils A
In the fall of 1856, wealthy James Ross Larkin of St. Louis joined a wagon train headed by William B...
Twelve sketches populate this pleasant little volume about overland travel between central Missouri ...
Twelve sketches populate this pleasant little volume about overland travel between central Missouri ...
Review of: The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, part 1,...
Review of: The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, part 1,...
Review of: The 1849 California Trail Diaries of Elijah Preston Howell. Howell, Elijah Preston
Review of: Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration. Nichols, Roger L. and Halley, Patrick L
Review of: Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration. Nichols, Roger L. and Halley, Patrick L
Combining James R. Mead\u27s published and unpublished materials, Hunting and Trading on the Great P...
Review of: The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, part 1,...
Combining James R. Mead\u27s published and unpublished materials, Hunting and Trading on the Great P...
In December 1876, Rolf Johnson, the twenty-year-old son of the Swedish immigrant parents in Henderso...
The history of the Sante Fe Trail has been repeated many times, often with the same material told in...
"This attractively bound volume contains the diary of John Steele who in the company of other advent...
Review of: Journal of a Tamed Bureaucrat: Nils A. Olsen and the BAE, 1925-1935. Olsen, Nils A
In the fall of 1856, wealthy James Ross Larkin of St. Louis joined a wagon train headed by William B...
Twelve sketches populate this pleasant little volume about overland travel between central Missouri ...
Twelve sketches populate this pleasant little volume about overland travel between central Missouri ...
Review of: The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, part 1,...
Review of: The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, part 1,...
Review of: The 1849 California Trail Diaries of Elijah Preston Howell. Howell, Elijah Preston
Review of: Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration. Nichols, Roger L. and Halley, Patrick L
Review of: Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration. Nichols, Roger L. and Halley, Patrick L
Combining James R. Mead\u27s published and unpublished materials, Hunting and Trading on the Great P...
Review of: The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, part 1,...
Combining James R. Mead\u27s published and unpublished materials, Hunting and Trading on the Great P...
In December 1876, Rolf Johnson, the twenty-year-old son of the Swedish immigrant parents in Henderso...
The history of the Sante Fe Trail has been repeated many times, often with the same material told in...
"This attractively bound volume contains the diary of John Steele who in the company of other advent...
Review of: Journal of a Tamed Bureaucrat: Nils A. Olsen and the BAE, 1925-1935. Olsen, Nils A