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The trail experience begat a fierce passion for prairie travel, wrote Josiah Gregg after journeying overland on the Santa Fe Trail in the 1840s. That same appeal is evoked anew in the pieces by Marc Simmons collected in this book. Drawing upon his own many trips along the Trail, Simmons re-creates trail life as experienced by the original travelers. He begins with an overview of the Trails history to conjure up images of the journey west in rumbling wagons. He further kindles our imagination with twenty vignettes of people, places, and events. Still visible today, especially in northeast New Mexico, are ruts cut by wagon wheels carrying Americas pioneers to the Southwest. These tracks remain as sentinels, forever guarding the past and the memory of those who journeyed over the Trail; for Simmons they are a link to the adventure, discovery, and tragedy faced by everyone making the six-week trip to Santa Fe. His re-creation of life in a wagon train, the trip, and the travelers brings all these vividly and memorably to life.

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title:The Old Trail to Santa Fe : Collected Essays
author:Simmons, Marc.
publisher:University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin:0826317375
print isbn13:9780826317377
ebook isbn13:9780585223414
language:English
subjectSanta Fe National Historic Trail--History.
publication date:1996
lcc:F786.S57 1996eb
ddc:978
subject:Santa Fe National Historic Trail--History.
Page iii
The Old Trail to Santa Fe
Collected Essays
Marc Simmons
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
ALBUQUERQUE
Page iv
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Simmons, Marc.
The old trail to Santa Fe : collected essays / Marc Simmons.1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ).
ISBN 082631726-X (c). ISBN 0-8263-1737-5 (p)
1. Santa Fe TrailHistory. I. Title.
F786.S57 1996
978dc20 96-26016
CIP
1996 by the University of New Mexico Press
All rights reserved.
First edition
Page v
To the
Officers and Members of the
Santa Fe Trail Association
for their dedication
to the history of the old trail
Page vii
CONTENTS
Illustrations
viii
Preface
xi
Part I: The Old Trail to Santa Fe
Trailing Southwest: A Beginning
2
A New Day: After 1848
23
The Trail in Memory
43
Part II: New Words about an Old Trail
Whither Becknell?
67
The Santa Fe Trail as High Adventure
76
Pecos Pueblo on the Santa Fe Trail
90
Bernard Seligman: Jewish Merchant on the Trail
98
The Poetry of the Santa Fe Trail
104
Comets and Meteors on the Santa Fe Trail
116
Part III: Sketches of the Trail
Massacre of the Coles
124
An Old-Timer Returns
128
Historic Cold Springs
132
Landmarks of the Pioneers
138
Oxen versus Mules
143
Childhood Memories of Teresina Bent
147
New Mexico's Italian Hermit
152
A Primer on Matches
157
A Teenager's Adventures on the Frontier
161
When Stagecoaches Ruled the Trail
167
The Trail's Other Side
172
A Dreadful Massacre
179
Flying the Santa Fe Trail
184
The Inn at the End of the Trail
190
Acknowledgments
195
Bibliographical Note
197

Page viii
ILLUSTRATIONS
1. The Commercial Center of St. Louis
5
2. The Packet John D. Perry
8
3. Major George C. Sibley
10
4. Courthouse Square in Independence, Missouri
12
5. The Old Kaw Indian Mission, Council Grove
13
6. Lost Spring, Kansas
14
7. Santa Fe Style Freight Wagon
16
8. Antonio Jos Chvez's Wagon box
18
9. Teamsters Approaching Santa Fe
20
10. Santa Fe in the 1870s
24
11. A Familiar Scene on the Santa Fe Trail
26
12. William Gilpin
27
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