Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico
Subtitle: the diary of Susan Shelby Mogoffin, 1846-1847
By: edited by Stella M. Drumm ; with a foreword by Howard R. Lamar.
Publisher: W. Gannon
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Santa Fe, N.M
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Magoffin, Susan Shelby, 1827-1855 -- Diaries.; Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Personal narratives.; Southwest, New -- Description and travel.; Mexico -- Description and travel.; Santa Fe National Historic Trail.
Description: The travel journal of Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, who in 1846 set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Mexico and south to Chihuahua, describes the fifteen-month journey during which the Mexican War was beginning and New Mexico was occupied by Stephen Watts Kearny and the Army of the West.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 269-276.
Reprint of the ed. published by Yale University Press, New Haven.
Includes index.