Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail Or Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances, with a Look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire

Name: Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail Or Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances, with a Look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire
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ISBN: 9780806110165

ISBN-10: 0806110163

ISBN-13: 9780806110165

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Lewis H. Garrard, A. B. Guthrie, A. B. Guthrie

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In the bright morning of his youth Lewis H. Garrard traveled into the wild and free Rocky Mountain West and left us this fresh and vigorous account, which, says A. B. Guthrie, Jr., contains in its pages "the genuine article-the Indian, the trader, the mountain man, their dress, and behavior and speech and the country and climate they lived in." On September 1, 1846, Garrard, then only seventeen years old, left Westport Landing (now Kansas City) with a caravan, under command of the famous trader Ceran St. Vrain, bound for Bent's Fort (Fort William) in the southeastern part of present-day Colorado. After a lengthy visit at the fort and in a camp of the Cheyenne Indians, early in 1847 he…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 6/15/1972
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 4.87" wide x 7.50" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Lewis H. Garrard , son of a prominent family in Cincinnati, Ohio, studied medicine. He was one of the early settlers of southeastern Minnesota, where he served as a state legislator. A ten month tripnbsp;to New Mexico when he was only seventeen became the basis fornbsp;Wa-To-Yah and the Taos Trail. Garrard died at age fifty-eight.