About this title: '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 York Times". 'Anecdotal history at its best, history come to life...This is the way people lived along the trail' - "Christian Science Monitor".The Santa Fe Trail was one of the two great overland highways originating in Missouri in the nineteenth ...
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam, New York, NY
Date Published: 1957
Description: Fair. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Wonderful true stories of life along the Santa Fe Trail. Lots of cover wear including bents, rubs, and creases. Bookstore stamp inside back cover. Pages are discolored with age and have lightly bent corner, but are clean and tight. 276 pages. Original cover price 50 cents. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1957
Description: Good. This is the story of the richest, wildest trail in all of North America, and the men who traveled it--sun bronzed Yankee traders, swarthy Mexican cibolos, cruel Comanches, sneaking Kiowas, proud Cheyennes. Recaptureding their experiences from diaries and records. Creased spine, edgewear. read more
Edition: First Bison edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bison Books
Date Published: 5/1/1996
ISBN-13:9780803296152ISBN:0803296150
Description: Very Good+ Size: Octavo; Paperback in fantastic condition. First Bison edition, reprint of 1939 original. Full color wraps in excellent shape, corners are sharp. Bind is tight and uncreased. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780803296152ISBN:0803296150
Description: Very Fine. 5.25" x 8" Tall 0803296150 304 pp with notes, bibliography, appendix, and index. Vestal takes the reader on the journey of the Old Santa Fe Trail starting with the preperations adventurers would have undertaken before leaving, how they survived once the journey began and the history and legends formed over time connected with this fabled overland route. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1939
Description: Fair-Good. 304 pages. Ex-library with typical marks, rebound in worn covers; front hinge repaired. Pages yellowing; good solid reading copy. A couple of tears and tape repairs to page edges. Sections include The Prairie Ocean; Council Grove; Grand Arkansas; The Fork in the Trail; The Desert Route; The Mountain Route; La Fonda. A few b/w photos. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: American History/Regional Inventory No: 066565. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1939
Description: Near Fine. 304 pages. Light grey cloth covers, no dustjacket. Very nice clean copy, illustrated with black and white photographs. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Date Published: 1939
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Illustrated with b/w photographs. Price clipped dj. Small tears, wrinkling and light chipping to dj edges. Rubbing to dj covers, fading at spine. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1957
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. (A83_5/9)Book is in good condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 304 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Very Good. Good in Mylar Jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. Very good+ HB. Ownership stamp on half-title page. Lightly chipped, price-clipped DJ. Maps on endpapers. Illustrated by Photographs. Early reprint edition. read more
Description: 293pp plus index; photos, 5 appendices including notes, chronology, mileage & stops, Gregg's tales and bibliography, VG in VG DJ. read more
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