Volume 17 in the American Exploration and Travel Series "[Commerce of the Prairies] has become established as the classic of the Santa Fe Trail and of life on the prairies at the time they were solidly turfed with primeval grass. The year 1954 will see no new book fresher in content or more vivid on the life and land of the Southwest than this first adequate reprint of Gregg's 'Commerce of the Prairies, ' edited - with wisdom as well as with knowledge...