'What is distinctive in Vestal's account is the admirable reconstruction of the facts and feelings of the life of the trail. To read his book is to realize that life as vividly as if you had seen it in a movie...Obviously, he loves the Trail and knows it as well as one knows one's own sidewalk. His enthusiasm makes his knowledge infectious' - "New ...
'Silverberg's brisk clear style ...should be appreciated by the reader ...He has provided a brief, attention-getting narrative of the history of a region often [overlooked]' - "Choice". 'A very good popular history, excellently written' - "Library Review". The peaceable Pueblo Indians seemed an unlikely people to rise emphatically and successfully ...
'Occasionally a truly remarkable book appears - one that takes a topic in need of discussion, thoroughly researches it, and presents credible results in a fascinating and extremely well manner. "Witchcraft in the Southwest" is such a volume, and as such, is a must for all readers, be they scholars, students, or others...The volume devotes equal ...
Indispensable readers guide and traveling companion scrupulously revised and updated from the 1984 edition. From Franklin, Mo., to Santa Fe, N.M., via both the Cimarron Cut-off and the Mountain Branch, Simmons concisely identifies and notes the history of routes, towns, structures, wayside markers, landmarks, and sidetrips, so the traveler can ...
Volume 1 of Kit Carson Days shows Carson running away from his Missouri home at age fifteen in 1826. He joins a caravan headed toward Santa Fe and in the coming years shuttles between poverty and prosperity as a wrangler, teamster, and trapper. He lives all over the unplotted West, helping to open trails, harvesting fur, befriending mountain men, ...
Volume 2 begins with Carson carrying the news of the conquest of California across the country to Washington, D.C., stopping en route to see his wife in Taos, New Mexico. The older Carson consolidates his fame as a courier, scout, soldier, and Indian agent. Americans, avid for newfound gold, turn to him as an authority on trail lore, and the ...
He was called El Leoncito, The Little Lion, by the simple peones of New Mexico who knew a century ago. Manuel Antonio Chaves earned that name in more than a score of battle with hostile Navajo, Ute, and Apache, and there can be little doubt that he was one of the finest Indian fighters the Southwest ever produced.
'Of prime importance to many general readers as well as to historians will be Brewerton's intimate and concrete pictures of Kit Carson' - "Southwest Review". Gold had just been discovered in California at the close of the Mexican War when Kit Carson started east from Los Angeles with Dispatches. Going with him was Lieutenant George Douglas ...
At last available in paperback, the twenty-five essays collected here re-create everyday activities of the Hispanic people of colonial northern New Mexico. What people wore, when they shopped, how they amused themselves these are but a few of the commonplace activities considered here. In reconstructing the daily routines of domestic life and work ...
Historian Marc Simmons is already a favourite among scholars, students, Hispanophiles, and borderland enthusiasts for his careful, readable histories of the American Southwest. In the twelve essays collected in here, the author's topical, in-depth approach to New Mexico's colonial period is skilfully deployed. His original research and unique ...
Twenty-nine fascinating vignettes by a noted Southwest historian. Includes biography, travel accounts, glimpses of ranching, trading, outlawry, Indian captivity, prospecting, hunting, politics, 1846-1912, many from southern N.M.
'One of the great strengths of this collection is its diversity; included are writings by an army major, Indian agent, German immigrant woman, and a New Mexican drover.... These travelers offer a wide and enlightening range of perspectives regarding the demanding conditions of the Santa Fe trail....' Glenda Riley, author of Women and Indians on ...
When General Stephen Watts Kearny's Army of the West marched into Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 18, 1846, Richard Smith Elliott, a young Missouri volunteer, was included in its ranks. In addition to Lieutenant Elliott's duties in the Laclede Rangers, he served as a regular correspondent to the St. Louis Reveille. An entertaining and educated ...
Twenty-seven intriguing vignettes set throughout N.M., about some two dozen outlaws and lawmen, from the 1860s through "The Last Train Robbery" (by young NYC "drugstore cowboys") near Las Cruces in 1938. Well-known Southwest historian Simmons draws on historical, archival, and frontier newspaper sources to sketch the exploits of the notorious ...
In the spring of 1883 Apache raiders massacred Judge H.C. McComas and his wife Juniata and kidnapped their six-year-old son Charley as the family traveled on a desolate road in southwestern New Mexico Territory. At the time, the circumstances leading to this tragic incident were not fully understood. In Massacre on the Lordsburg Road, historian ...
Until Marian Meyer chanced upon an 1885 newspaper article, no one even suspected that Mary Dodson Donoho had preceded Susan Magoffin as the first Anglo-American woman to journey the Santa Fe Trail to Santa Fe by more than a decade. Magoffin came in 1846, but Donoho and her husband William took their first child with them over the trail in 1833. ...
Kit Carson (1809-1868) has long held a prominent place in the popular imagination of the American West. However, little is known about his family life thanks largely to Carson's own guardianship of his privacy. After almost four decades devoted to researching Kit Carson's personal life, Marc Simmons provides information here to further our ...
Northern New Mexico holds a living tradition and folklore dealing with witchcraft that is beginning to die out as the older generations pass away. The author has compiled 150 firsthand accounts of supernatural experiences and traditional stories from the people of the Pecos Valley. The text is bilingual in Spanish and English with glossaries of ...
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