and 9: Santa Fe Trailhistorians believed,.and 7: Santa Fe TrailCHAPTER XVI.KIT CARSO. ![]() and 5: Santa Fe TrailThe Expedition of Tex.and 3: Santa Fe Trailhardy white pioneers,.The vast area through which the famoushighway ran is still imperfectly known to most people as "The West" a designation once appropriate, but hardly applicable now for inthese days of easy communication the real trail region is notso far removed from New York as Buffalo was seventy years ago.At the commencement of the "commerce of the prairies," in the earlyportion of the century, the Old Trail was the arena of almost constantsanguinary struggles between the wily nomads of the desert and the "BUFFALO BILL" CODYPREFACE.As we look into the open fire for our fancies, so we are apt tostudy the dim past for the wonderful and sublime, forgetful of thefact that the present is a constant romance, and that the happeningsof to-day which we count of little importance are sure to startlesomebody in the future, and engage the pen of the historian,philosopher, and poet.Accustomed as we are to think of the vast steppes of Russia andSiberia as alike strange and boundless, and to deal with the unkowninterior of Africa as an impenetrable mystery, we lose sight of alocality in our own country that once surpassed all these invirgin grandeur, in majestic solitude, and in all the attributesof a tremendous wilderness.The story of the Old Santa Fe Trail, so truthfully recalled båolonel Henry Inman, ex-officer of the old Regular Army, in these pages,is a most thrilling one. Santa Fe TrailTHE OLD SANTA FE TRAILThe Story of a Great HighwayBy COLONEL HENRY INMANLate Assistant Quartermaster, United States ArmyWith a Preface by W.
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