Land of Enchantment: Memoirs of Marian Russell Along The Santa Fé Trail

Land of Enchantment: Memoirs of Marian Russell Along The Santa Fé Trail

Author: Marion Sloan Russell

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2016-01-18

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 178625803X

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Few of the great overland highways of America have known such a wealth of color and romance as that which surrounded the Santa Fé 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 soldiers 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. [...] The story dictated in such vivid detail by Marian Sloan Russell is a unique and valuable eyewitness account by a sensitive, intelligent girl who grew to maturity on the kaleidoscopic Santa Fé Trail. “Maid Marian,” as she was known by the freighters and soldiers, made five round-trip crossings of the trail before settling down to live her adult life along its deeply rutted traces. —From Foreword “When it was first published in 1954, Marian Russell’s Land of Enchantment was praised as an outstanding memoir of life on the Santa Fe Trail...Now readers everywhere can enjoy Mrs. Russell’s recollections,... And those readers will discover that Mrs. Russell described much more than just life on the Trail. Indeed her memoirs cover virtually every aspect of life in the West...—Southwest Review “These memoirs reveal a strong, energetic woman whose perceptions of old Santa Fe and pioneer life on the trail paint a vivid picture of the nineteenth-century West. The unusual and exact details which Marian Russell recalls make her story enthrallingly real.”—American West


Along the Santa Fe Trail

Along the Santa Fe Trail

Author: Ginger Wadsworth

Publisher: Albert Whitman

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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In 1852, seven-year-old Marion Sloan travels with her mother and older brother in a wagon train along the Santa Fe Trail, experiencing both hardship and wonder.


The Old Santa Fé Trail

The Old Santa Fé Trail

Author: Henry Inman

Publisher:

Published: 1898

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13:

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A classic on all the trials and tribulations of the Santa Fé Trail, the Indian deprevations, the Mexican problems,the Fontier Military, the Fur Trappers, Fur Trade, and Mountain Men, Kit Carson, Uncle Dick Wooten, Buffalo Bill Cody, the Bents, Jim Beckwourth.


Wagon Train Wedding

Wagon Train Wedding

Author: Rhonda Gibson

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2021-08-24

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0369704649

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The wagon train is her chance for a new life …but only if her secrets will keep.Widowed Mrs. Cora Edwards sees Oregon as a fresh start for her and her son…but there are a few problems. She’s not a widow…and baby Noah isn’t her son. He’s the nephew she’s vowed to protect—even if she must accept a marriage of convenience before she’ll be permitted on the wagon train. Her groom, lawman Flynn Adams, carries his own secret heartache…which Cora starts to ease. On the path to a new future, will they find a way forward together?


The Santa Fe Trail

The Santa Fe Trail

Author: Robert Luther Duffus

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780826302359

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The lively history of this great trade artery is once more available.


Lady Long Rider

Lady Long Rider

Author: Bernice Ende

Publisher: Farcountry Press

Published: 2018-06-27

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1560377453

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Riding 2,000 miles on horseback from Montana to New Mexico sounds like a crazy but thrilling dream or pure hardship and exhaustion. According to Bernice Ende, the trip was all that and more. Since swinging her leg over the saddle for that first long ride in 2005 (at the age of 50), Ende has logged more than 29,000 miles in the saddle, crisscrossing North America on horseback - alone. More than once she has traversed the Great Plains, the Southwest deserts, the Cascade Range, and the Rocky Mountains. Along the way, she discovered a sense of community and love of place that unites people wherever they live. From 2014-2016, she was the first person to ride coast to coast and back again in one trek, winning acclaim from the international Long Riders' Guild and awe from the people she met along the way. Bernice Ende's memoirs are illuminated by accompanying maps of her routes and photos from her journeys, capturing the instant friends she meets along the way, and her ongoing encounters with harsh weather, wildlife, hard work, mosquitoes, tricky route-finding, and the occasional worn out horseshoe. Ende reveals her inner struggles and triumphs - testing the limits of physical and mental stamina, coping with inescapable solitude, and the rewards of living life her own way, as she says, "in her own skin." Saddle up and come along for the journey of a lifetime.


Trails

Trails

Author: Patricia Nelson Limerick

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13:

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Reexamination of the role of the West in U.S. history and of the field of western history itself told by ten historians.


All the Stars in the Sky

All the Stars in the Sky

Author: Megan McDonald

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780439169639

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A girl's diary records the year 1848 during which she, her brother, mother, and stepfather traveled the Santa Fe trail from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe.


Santa Fe's Fonda

Santa Fe's Fonda

Author: Allen R Steele

Publisher: History Press

Published: 2022-02-07

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9781540251282

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For the first two centuries of Santa Fe's history, weary wayfarers were out of luck. Not only did the Spanish authorities enforce a strict travel ban on foreign visitors, but there was also no place to stay in the territorial capital. That all changed in the 1820s. When Mexico gained independence, a flood of traffic cascaded down the Santa Fe Trail, and the Plaza became a hub of hospitality and trade. From the Exchange Hotel to La Fonda, the inn on the corner of San Francisco Street represented one of the most welcome landmarks in the West. Author Allen Steele recounts stories of trailblazing pioneers and the lodging on which their daring depended.