The Santa Fe Trail

Drawing from letters, diaries, expedition reports, business records, newspaper stories, and firsthand reminiscences, Dary fleshes out the story of the men who opened commerce with Spanish America. There are Indians and mountain men, traders and trappers, merchants, surveyors, government commissioners, Spanish people, Americans, Frenchmen, and people of almost every other nationality. A splendid recreation of an important part of American history, fully illustrated with photographs and woodcuts of the period. 110 photos, maps, drawings.

DAVID DARY is the recipient of a Cowboy Hall of Fame Wrangler Award, two Western Writers of America Spur Awards, the Westerners International Best Nonfiction Book Award, and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement from the Western Writers of America. His many books include Cowboy Culture, True Tales of the Prairies and Plains, True Tales of Old-Time Kansas, More True Tales of Old-Time Kansas, Entrepreneurs of the Old West, and Seeking Pleasure in the Old West.