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The Santa Fe Trail was one of the great commercial routes across the West, frequented more by merchants than by emigrants. Hence women travelers were few on the Santa Fe Trail, and Land of Enchantment is one of the few firsthand accounts by a woman of life on the trail. The author, Marian Russell (1845-1936), dictated her story to her daughter-in-law in the 1930s. Published in a limited edition in 1954 and highly praised by scholars, that edition has become virtually impossible to obtain. This forgotten classic paints a vivid picture of nineteenth-century New Mexico as seen by a bright young girl from the age of seven on. Mrs. Russells memories of several well-known western figures are not only delightful reading but make this book a useful addition to the regions history.
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Memoirs of Marian Russell Along the Santa Fe Trail
As dictated to Mrs. Hal Russell
Illustrated Facsimile Edition with New Photographs, a New Map, and a New Afterword by Marc Simmons
University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque
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Copyright 1954 by the Branding Iron Press. University of New Mexico Press edition reprinted by arrangement with Noreen Stringfellow. Afterword copyright 1981 by the University of New Mexico Press. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. International Standard Book Number 0-8263-0571-7. International Standard Book Number (paperback) 0-8263-0805-8 Sixth paperbound printing, 1997
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Russell, Marian Sloan, 1845-1937. Land of enchantment.
Reprint. Originally published: Evanston, Ill.: Branding Iron Press, 1954. Includes index. 1. Santa Fe Trail. 2. Frontier and pioneer lifeSouthwest, New. 3. Overland Journeys to the Pacific. 4. Russell, Marian Sloan, 1845-1937. 5. PioneersSouthwest, NewBiography. 6. Southwest, NewBiography. 1. Title. F786.R96 1981 917.8 80-54564 ISBN 0-8263-0571-7 AACR2
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Richard D. Russell 1839-1888 Marian Sloan Russell 1845-1937 From a picture taken in Santa Fe, New Mexico about 1867, soon after their wedding.
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Copyright 1954 The Branding Iron Press Evanston, Illinois
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Between the Covers....
Down the Trail
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Chapter I The Old Northwest
1
Chapter II On the Santa Fe Trail
1
Chapter III Life in Santa F 1852-1856
31
Chapter IV Fort Leavenworth 1856-1860
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Chapter V Back to New Mexico 1860
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Chapter VI Land of Enchantment 1860-1866
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Chapter VII Tecolote Traders 1866- 1871
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Chapter VIII Stonewall Valley Ranch 1871-1936
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Notes
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Index
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Down the Trail....
Few of the great overland highways of America have known such a wealth of color and romance as that which surrounded the Santa F Trail. For over four centuries the dust-gray and muddy-red trail felt the moccasined tread of Comanches, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes. These soft footfalls were replaced by the bold harsh clang of the armored conqueror, Coronado, and by a host of Spanish explorers and soliders seeking the gold of fabled Quivira. Black and brown-robed priests, armed only with the cross, were followed in turn by bearded buckskin-clad fur traders and mountain men, by canny Indian traders, and lean, weather-beaten drovers with great herds of long-horned cattle. There were the tireless freighters marching alongside or driving heavily laden, mile-long wagon trains; and eager, profit-conscious merchants with trade goods for the Mexican villages of New Mexico.
Over the years soldiers explored, surveyed, and protected those who traveled on the slender wavering ribbon which linked precariously the quiet pastoral culture of hispanic New Mexico and the dynamic restless culture of the blossoming French, Spanish, and then American settlements a thousand miles to the East. It was a colorful handful who accepted such grave responsibility: armor-clad conquistadores of imperial Spain, Mexican lancers, American dragoons, infantry, and Negro cavalry. There were Texas militiamen, Kansas guerrillas fresh from the farms, and Colorado volun-
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teers still covered with the grime of the gold and silver camps of the Rockies.
Names great and small became associated with the trail. There was "Kit" Carson, "Old" Bill Williams, "Jed'' Smith, the Pattie's, and "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick, Lelande and Becknell, Cern St. Vrain, the brothers Bent, Alexander Barclay, Sibley, Kearney, Quantrill, and Custer. "Pilgrims,'' pioneers, and prospectorstens of thousands of themjolted over the rolling ruts past old Fort Bent to Fort Union, and through the narrow pass to the ancient adobe pueblo of Santa F. Others pushed past the mud villages of the Rio Grande and across mountains and desert to the gold fields of Californiaand ten years later to the Pike's Peak diggings. It was a trail of promise, and a trail of blood.
The rhythmical beat of the bright painted tom-toms of ten thousand red warriors blended with the earth-shaking thunder of a million buffalo, and with the tortured screech of uncounted thousands of lumbering wagon wheels bearing men and women to a new life in a new land. In the mind's eye of each was the ageless dream of freedom and opportunity. Many found what they sought. Others found only dismal failure and an unmarked grave. No one ever called it an easy life. The romance came later... largely in retrospect.
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