Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847
by Magoffin, Susan Shelby; Drumm, Stella M.; Lamar, Howard R
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0803281161
- ISBN 13
- 9780803281165
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Lincoln, NE: Bison Books. Fine. 1982. Trade Paperback. 304 pages. Yale Western Americana Paperbound, Yw-3.. In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen 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 Chihuahua. 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. Her journal describes the excitement, routine, and dangers of a successful merchant's wife. On the trail for fifteen months, moving from house to house and town to town, she became adept in Spanish and the lingo of traders, and wrote down in detail the customs and appearances of places she went. She gave birth to her first child during the journey and admitted, "This thing of marrying is not what it is cracked up to be." Valuable as a social and historical record of her encountersshe met Zachary Taylor and was agreeably disappointed to find him disheveled but kindlyher journal is equally important as a chronicle of her growing intelligence, experience, and strength, her lost illusions and her coming to terms with herself. .
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- Title
- Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847
- Author
- Magoffin, Susan Shelby; Drumm, Stella M.; Lamar, Howard R
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0803281161
- ISBN 13
- 9780803281165
- Publisher
- Bison Books
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln, NE
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, HISTORY, UNITED STATES, STATE LOCAL, SOUTHWEST
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- Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs;
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