Voyage to Santa Fe

by Janice Holt Giles

Book Overview

...the journey that is a test of their marriage... across the plains from Arkansas Territory to Santa Fe...1823... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395077478
• ISBN13: 9780395077474
• Release Date: January 1962
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Book

You just gotta love Janice Holt Giles. Her books are timeless & I think will be enjoyed decades from now as they are now. The story of a young marriage & the trials that it is put through on the trail to Santa Fe. Read & enjoy.

A lovely, lively, dyamic tale

Janice Holt Giles carefully researched plains life in the early 1800's before writing this splendid work about a wagon train venturing into a new route from St. Louis to Santa Fe. Her main characters, newly married Folwlers, are surrounded by rough, quaint, hard, sensitive men, plus one escaped slave, as they venture into unknown lands. Skirmishes with Indians, kidnappings, dust storms, stampeeds, all liven the tale. It is a good reminder, too, that the west was not only tamed by the sombrero--the sunbonnet had its triumphs as well. An excellent read for anyone who appreciates the research of the historian and the art of a good tale well told.