New Mexico's Royal Road Trade and Travel on the Chihuahua Trail

Name: New Mexico's Royal Road Trade and Travel on the Chihuahua Trail
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ISBN: 9780806126517

ISBN-10: 0806126515

ISBN-13: 9780806126517

Edition: 1958

Authors: Max L. Moorhead, Mark L. Gardner

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The arrival of Missourian William Becknell's party at Santa Fe in 1821 ushered in the era of the annual "Santa Fe trade" between the United States and the Mexican settlements to the south and opened the famous route known as the Santa Fe Trail. Of even greater significance, but largely overlooked today, is the fact that it also opened a road from the United States connecting with a major Mexican high way, for Santa Fe was the terminus of the 1,600-mile Camino Real,the "King's Highway," stretching southward to Chihuahua and the interior cities of Mexico. Over this Royal Road between Santa Fe and Chihuahua lumbered the caravans of the Santa Fe traders, who exchanged American dry goods and…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1958
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 4/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Max Moorehead was David Ross Boyd professor emeritus of history at the University of Oklahoma. He was the author of The Presidio:Bastion of the Spanish Borderlands and editor of Josiah Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, both published by the University of Oklahoma Press.