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Reluctant Frontiersman. James Ross Larkin on the Santa Fe Trail, 1856-57
by Larkin, James Ross
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0826311830
- ISBN 13
- 9780826311832
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About This Item
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990 First edition. . Edited and Annotated by Barton H. Barbour. Foreword by Marc Simmons. xvi, [2], 202pp. Frontispiece portrait, reproductions of documents, portrait of Larkin's wife, double-page route map. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Maroon cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with dust jacket. Presents the diaries of Larkin, a young and prosperous businessman from St. Louis, who traveled to Santa Fe in the hopes of improving his health. Larkin traveled to Santa Fe in William Bent's caravan in the fall of 1856. His diaries of the trip as a "tourist" detail his impressions of Plains Indians and New Mexican life. The appendices include newspaper accounts and some of his letters from 1866..
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- Argonaut Book Shop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8103
- Title
- Reluctant Frontiersman. James Ross Larkin on the Santa Fe Trail, 1856-57
- Author
- Larkin, James Ross
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0826311830
- ISBN 13
- 9780826311832
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Place of Publication
- Albuquerque
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Biography, Larkin, William Bent, Santa Fe Trail, American West, Plains Indians, History, New Mexico
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