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Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847

Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847

Magoffin, Susan Shelby
Drumm, Stella M.
Lamar, Howard R.

Paperback

Series: American Tribal Religions, Book 3

General United States

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0803281161
ISBN13: 9780803281165
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Aug 1 1982
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.32 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Mexico and south to Chihuahua. Her travel journal was written at a crucial time, when the Mexican War was beginning and New Mexico was occupied by Stephen Watts Kearny and the Army of the West.

Her journal describes the excitement, routine, and dangers of a successful merchant's wife. On the trail for fifteen months, moving from house to house and town to town, she became adept in Spanish and the lingo of traders, and wrote down in detail the customs and appearances of places she went. She gave birth to her first child during the journey and admitted, This thing of marrying is not what it is cracked up to be.

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