Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail
Matthew C Field author Clyde Porter author Mae Reed Porter author John E Sunder editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
Published:30th Apr '95
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
ISBN: 9780806127163
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
Weight: 586g
368 pages