Research Catalog

Title

Old Spanish trail : Santa Fé to Los Angeles : with extracts from contemporary records and including diaries of Antonio Armijo and Orville Pratt / by LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen ; introduction to the Bison book edition by David J. Weber.

Author

Hafen, LeRoy R. (LeRoy Reuben), 1893-1985

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hafen, Ann W. (Ann Woodbury), 1893-1970

Description

375 p. : ill., map; 21 cm.

Subjects

• History
• Old Spanish Trail
• Southwest, New > History > To 1848
• West (U.S.) > Description and travel
• Mormon Road

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "A Bison book."
• Originally published: Glendale, Calif. : A.H. Clark Co., 1954, in series: The Far West and the Rockies historical series, 1820-1875.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The trail and its terminal towns -- Forerunners : banners of Spain for God and king -- Padres : carrying the cross to the Aborigines, 1776 -- Fur hunters : breaking paths into the Rockies -- Explorers : opening a route from the Rockies to the Pacific -- Trail makers : first traversal of the entire route -- Packers : commerce by mule train -- Home seekers : trekking the trail to California -- Horse thieves : raiding California missions and ranchos -- Slave catchers : traffic in Indian women and children -- Path markers : official surveyors map the trail -- Dispatch bearers : Carson and Brewerton on the trail -- Diarist : journal of O.S. Pratt in 1848 -- Trail's end.

ISBN

0803272618 (pbk. : alk. paper) :

LCCN

^^^92038604^

OCLC

• 26931286
• SCSB-10503036

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library