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Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail / collected by Clyde and Mae Reed Porter ; edited, and with an introduction and notes by John E. Sunder ; foreword by Mark L. Gardner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Field, Matthew C.
- Series:
- American exploration and travel series ; v. 29.
- The American exploration and travel series ; v. 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Santa Fe National Historic Trail.
- New Mexico--Social life and customs.
- New Mexico.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 322 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1995]
- Summary:
- In 1839 a journalist for the New Orleans Picayune, Matthew C. Field, joined a company of merchants and tourists headed west on the Santa Fe Trail. Leaving Independence, Missouri, early in July "with a few wagons and a carefree spirit", Field recorded his vivid impressions of travel westward on the Santa Fe Trail and, on the return trip, eastward along the Cimarron Route. Written in verse in his journal and in eighty-five articles later published in the Picayune, Field's observations offer the modern reader a unique glimpse of life in the settlements of Mexico and on the Santa Fe Trail.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0806127163
- OCLC:
- 31241598
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