Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail (American Exploration and Travel Series) - Hardcover

Matthew C. Field

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806104562 ISBN 13: 9780806104560

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960

Synopsis

In 1839 a journalist for the New Orleans Picayune, Matthew C. Field, joined a company of merchants and tourists headed west on the Santa Fe Trail. Leaving Independence, Missouri, early in July "with a few wagons and a carefree spirit," Field recorded his vivid impressions of travel westward on the Santa Fe Trail and, on the return trip, eastward along the Cimarron Route. Written in verse in his journal and in eighty-five articles later published in the Picayune, Fieldā s observations offer the modern reader a unique glimpse of life in the settlements of Mexico and on the Santa Fe Trail.

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About the Author

Clyde Porter, noted student of Western Americana, assembled the material for Ruxton of the Rockies.

Mae Reed Porter, noted student of Western Americana, assembled the material for Ruxton of the Rockies.

Mark L. Gardner is the coeditor if The Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott (University of Oklahoma Press). A consultant to the National Park Service, he has written interpretive booklets for both Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and Washita Battlefield National Historic Site.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1960
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806104562
• ISBN 13: 9780806104560
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 322