Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail

Porter, Clyde and Mae (collected by); Sunder, John E. (edited by); Gardner, Mark L. (foreword by)

ISBN 10: 0806127163 / ISBN 13: 9780806127163

Published by University Of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1995

About this Item

Very clean and tight; slightly worn and corner-curled; 322p., including index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # SB4379

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail
• Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press, Norman
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806127163
• ISBN 13: 9780806127163
• Binding: Wraps
• Edition: 1st Paperback Printing.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Book Type: Paperback
• Seller catalogs:
  • Western Americana

About this title

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, Field’s observations offer the modern reader a unique glimpse of life in the settlements of Mexico and on the Santa Fe Trail.

About the Authors

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.