Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1977
Abstract
New Mexico and that vast region spanned by the Santa Fe trail—a region utterly unlike anything east of the Mississippi—must have seemed enormously exotic and exciting to Americans a hundred and fifty years ago. It was a segment of the continent which most Americans knew only through books, and there were many of them, highly colored and occasionally inaccurate, to satisfy, or increase, their curiosity. American interest in the region expanded as the decades passed and culminated, of course, in the Mexican War and American possession of the Southwest.
Recommended Citation
Foster, Edward Halsey. Josiah Gregg and Lewis H. Garrard. Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1977. Digital. Western Writers Series, 28.
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