Title: Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico
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.
Subjects: Description and travel, Diaries, Mexican War, 1846-1848, Personal narratives, Frontier and pioneer life, southwest, old, Mexican war, 1846-1848, personal narratives
Places: Mexico, New Southwest, Santa Fe National Historic Trail
People: Susan Shelby Magoffin (1827-1855)