Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail: Volume 29

by Clyd Portereyianrsoneranhcess, Clyde Porter, Matthew C. Field, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806127163
• ISBN13: 9780806127163
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"