Murder on the Santa Fe Trail
Subtitle: an international incident, 1843
By: by Marc Simmons.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Texas Western Press, the University of Texas at El Paso
Published: 1987
Place of publication: El Paso, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: McDaniel, John, d. 1845 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Brown, Joseph, d. 1845 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Murder) -- Missouri -- St. Louis.
Description: Full-length account of the 1843 murder of wealthy merchant Don Antonio Jose Chavez by outlaws on the Santa Fe Trail, a murder which threatened to disrupt the profitable overland trade between the 3 countries of Mexico, Texas, and the United States.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 85-88.
Includes index.