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Author: Leroy R. Hafen Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803272613 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 390
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This classic history is filled with colorful pathmarkers like Jedediah Smith, John C. Främont, and Kit Carson; with packers, home seekers, and mail couriers; and with horse thieves and enslavers of Indian women and children.
Author: Leroy R. Hafen Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803272613 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 390
Book Description
This classic history is filled with colorful pathmarkers like Jedediah Smith, John C. Främont, and Kit Carson; with packers, home seekers, and mail couriers; and with horse thieves and enslavers of Indian women and children.
Author: Ralph Compton Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks ISBN: 142990318X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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An extraordinary saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the great frontier. Hard-riding Texans were braving mountains, desert and Indian war-- for the promise of a golden land called California... Over one million copies of Ralph Compton's Trail Drive novels in print! Missouri was closed to Texas cattle. Santa Fe was closed by murder. Now, they had one choice: cross desert mountains and hostile Indian land-- to a place called California... The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn, and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph, Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-blazing trail drives. For the ranchers riding with Rand Hayes, things had gone from bad to worse. The Santa Fe man who'd contracted five thousand head of cattle was dead-- murdered by renegades. Now the Texans had a herd of longhorns and only one choice: cross two mountain ranges and the Mojave Desert to the gold-fevered market at Los Angeles. A trail blazed by ancient Spaniards, this was a route that would lead through a brutal, wondrous land, where a hostile Ute nation was only one danger the cattle drive faced, and California was a shooting war away...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Publisher: ISBN: Category : Old Spanish Trail Languages : en Pages : 8
Author: James Collett Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1467106925 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 128
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At the dawn of automobile travel in the United States, visionary entrepreneurs proposed a Southern transcontinental route called the Old Spanish Trail (OST) that would stretch across eight states from Florida to California. ... native Texas historian James Collett has crafted a book that provides a glimpse into the early years of automobile tourism along the Texas stretch of the OST.
Author: Richard G. Waller Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781973752417 Category : Languages : en Pages : 96
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In 2014 and 2015 the author with several other riders from the Backcountry Horsemen of America re rode the Old Spanish Trail from San Bernardino California to Santa Fe New Mexico. This is their story, and a guide to the route as done by the riders. The Old Spanish Trail is today, America's longest National Park, The Old Spanish National Historic Trail. The volunteers of the Old Spanish Trail Association along with other members of the Backcountry Horsemen of America assisted the riders. This guide is set up as a day by day account. Bicyclists, hikers and vehicle users can use it to plan day trips, section trips, or the entire 1200 mile trail.
Author: Leroy R. Hafen
Author: Leroy R. Hafen
Author: Kitty Courts
Author: Arlan Dean
Author: Ralph Compton
Author: Keith Myhrer
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources
Author: James Collett
Author: Richard G. Waller
Author: LeRoy Reuben Hafen