Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 (American Tribal Religions)

Tagebücher. - Magoffin, Susan Shelby. Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico. The diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847. Lincoln, London, University of Nebraska Press, 1982. 21x13,5 cm. XXXV, 294 S. Paperback in good condition. Inside very good. Bison book, 805. Edited by Stella M. Drumm. Foreword by Howard R. Lamar. Portrait of Susan Shelby Magoffin in front and some illustrations in the text. In June 1846 Susan S. Magoffin, 18 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 Chilhuahua. 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... (flap)