Santa Fe Passage

Jon R. Bauman

ISBN 10: 0312940033 / ISBN 13: 9780312940034

Published by Macmillan, 2006

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Successfully tapping into financial opportunities in early nineteenth-century Santa Fe, entrepreneur Matthew Collins marries into the local gentry and hopes to settle down, but the war between the United States and Mexico causes him to be recruited by President Polk to assist the negotiations for handing over local territories. Reprint. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Santa Fe Passage
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312940033
• ISBN 13: 9780312940034
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

IT WAS A LIFELINE AND A TRAIL OF DEATH
In 1823, one long trail connected the backwater colony of Mexico with a booming America. Here, only the most daring, ambitious and lucky would survive--transporting goods at enormous risk and for bigger profit. One who made the trip was an orphan named Matt Collins. In Mexico, Matt came of age, made a fortune, chose a woman, and lived between two worlds...

AND IT WAS THE WAY TO THE FUTURE
Matt was both an outsider--an enterprising Yanqui--and the face of the future. As the Santa Fe colony was buffeted by chaos in Mexico, and threatened by Manifest Destiny from Washington, Matt was forced to choose between his two nations. War was brewing in Texas, and President Polk himself needed someone to lead New Mexico into the union--without a single shot being fired...

SANTA FE PASSAGE
This epic novel captures the forces of history, politics, nature and religion that forged a unique corner of the new world. At the foothills of the Sangre de Christo Mountains, Jon Bauman leads us among aristocrats, scoundrels and adventurers--as a man makes a choice that will shape the future of two countries...

"A consummate storyteller...a scrupulous historian, Bauman faithfully recreates the powerful social and political forces that converged on New Mexico."
--David J. Weber, author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Spanish Frontier in North America

"Beautifully researched...all woven into a memorable plot."
--Jane Roberts Wood, author of Train to Estelline and Roseborough

About the Author

Jon R. Bauman is an international lawyer and the author of two previous nonfiction books. Santa Fe Passage is his first novel. He lives in Texas with his wife Lou and children.