The Wagonmasters: High Plains Freighting from the Earliest Days of the Santa Fe Trail to 1880

by Henry Pickering Walker

Book Overview

"A colorful account of a great breed of men." Chicago Tribune "Certainly of interest to scholars and historians, The Wagonmasters should appeal too, to more serious Western history buffs because of its straightforward, coherent story of an important phase of the American West." Sandra Dallas, Denver Post From 1882, when the first wagons were used in the Santa Fe trade, until 1880, when the completion of major railroad lines made the wagon train all...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806119837
• ISBN13: 9780806119830
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"