Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico; The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 by Stella M. Drumm, Editor - 1982

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press/ Bison Books, 1982 University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books, Lincoln, NE. 1982. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Facsimile reprint of the 1926 original by Yale. 3rd Printing by Line Number. Book Condition: Fine; slight shelfwear to textblock bottom. No DJ. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 294 pp 8vo. At age 18 in June of 1846 the author sets out on a trek from Independence, MO through NM and south to Chihuahua. Her journal describes the excitement, routine, and dangers of a successful merchant's wife. Becoming adapt at Spanish and the lingo of traders, she wrote down in detail the customs and appearances of the places she went. Valuable as a social and historical record of her encounters. A clean very presentable copy.