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The old Santa Fe Trail / (Record no. 27188)

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 96002238
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0803296150 (pa : alk. paper)
022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER
International Standard Serial Number 9780803296152
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 978 Ves
Item number 48
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number 978 Ves
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Vestal, Stanley
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The old Santa Fe Trail /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Stanley Vestal ; introduction by Marc Simmons
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Lincoln, Neb. :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc University of Nebraska Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc c1996.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiii, 304 p. :
Other physical details ill., maps ;
Dimensions 20 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1939.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Part I: The prairie ocean --
Windwagon --
Outfitting for the trail --
Preparations for the march --
The trail to Council Grove --
Stampede --
Part II: Council Grove --
The start --
Diamond Springs --
Part III: Grand Arkansas --
Buffalo fever --
Running meat --
Part V: The fork in the trail --
Pawnee Rock --
'Prairie prison' --
The crossing of the Arkansas.
Part V: The desert route --
The Cimarron Desert --
The Canadian River --
Part VI: The mountain route --
Chouteau's Island --
Medicine Horse --
Sand Creek --
Kit Carson's last smoke --
The big timbers --
Little chief --
Bent's old fort --
Part VII: La Fonda --
The end of the trail --
Appendix: Notes --
Chronology of the trail --
Mileage and stops on the Santa Fe Trail --
The commerce of the prairies --
Bibliography.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc The Santa Fe Trail was one of the two great overland highways originating in Missouri in the nineteenth century. Several decades before settlers streamed over the Oregon Trail, traders were heading southwest. The caravans carried the wares of Yankee commerce; they returned loaded with buffalo robes and beaver pelts and the rich metals of Mexican mines. The thousand-mile journey "was a perilous cruise across a boundless sea of grass, over forbidding mountains, among wild.; Beasts and wilder men, ending in an exotic city offering quick riches, friendly foreign women, and a moral holiday," writes Stanley Vestal. Vestal begins where the trail does. He describes outfitting for the trip, the society formed for survival, the hunt for meat, landmarks, and the dangers. He evokes the history and legends surrounding the trail at every point, including figures like Kit Carson, Jedediah Smith, the Bent brothers, and Uncle Dick Wooton.
590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note 70917
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Frontier and pioneer life
Geographic subdivision Southwest, New
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Chronological subdivision History
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Relator code Introduction
Personal name Simmons, Marc
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type sw 900 - 999
Source of classification or shelving scheme
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