Over the Santa Fé Trail, 1857
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"When I was a lad of 12 years of age my father had a red-headed overseer, good-natured, loquacious and fond of telling stories, the kind that suited the understanding and tickled the fancy of a boy. His stories were always related as being truthful accounts of actual occurrences, although I suspected they were frequently creatures of his own imagination. This overseer, a Westerner born and bred, had driven an ox wagon in a train across the plains to New Mexico; had made two trips across—in 1847 and 1848—one extending as far as Chihuahua, in Old Mexico. His observation was keen, and his memory ...
Chapters (108)
- Over the Santa Fé Trail 1857
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- Over the Santa Fé Trail, 1857.
- I. Captain “Jim Crow” Chiles.
- II. In Camp, South of Westport.
- III. Buffalo.
- IV. Companions of Voyage.
- V. Pestiferous Indians.
- VI. At the Kiowa Camp.
- VII. To the Cimarron.
- VIII. My First Antelope.
- IX. A Kicking Gun and a Bucking Mule.
- X. A Gray Wolf.
- XI. Arrival at Las Vegas.
- XII. In Peril of Indians.
- XIII. Captain Chiles’ Chase.
- Lewis & Clark’s Route Retraveled. The Upper Missouri in 1858.
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III.
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