santa fe trail

A collection of essays, poetry, and diary excerpts provides a picture of the lives of three travellers on the trail west in the mid-1800s.

The story of the Santa Fe Trail, covering 800 miles from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico, during the Mexican War.

A struggling cottonwood sapling becomes a landmark to travelers, a peace-medicine tree, and after its death in 1834, a yoke which is used on the trail to Santa Fe.

Presents a history of the trail that became an important commercial route to the southwestern United States during the 1800s.

Drawing on journals of the 1840s, the authors describe the life of an important trading center on the Santa Fe Trail, where U.S., Mexican, and Indian cultures mingled at a key time in American history.

What life was like for the Americans who went west in Conestoga wagons along the Santa Fe Trail.

Personal narratives of some of the travelers who made the journey west along the various trails.

In 1852, seven year old Marion Sloan travels with her mother and older brother in a wagon train along the Santa Fe Trail, experiencing both hardship and wonder.