Title: The old Santa Fe trail,
Authors: Vestal, Stanley, 1887-1957
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company,
Year: 1939
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life Southwest, New; Santa Fe National Historic Trail.
Contents: Windwagon -- Outfitting for the trail -- Preparations of the march -- The trail to Council Grove -- Stampede -- The start -- Diamond springs -- Buffalo fever -- Running meat -- Pawnee Rock -- 'Prairie prison' -- The crossing of the Arkansas -- The Cimarron desert -- The Canadian River -- Choteau's Island -- Medicine horse -- Sand Creek -- Kit Carson's last smoke -- The big timbers -- Little Chief -- Bent's Old Fort -- The end of the trail.