Reluctant frontiersman : James Ross Larkin on the Sante Fe Trail, 1856-57 / edited and annotated by Barton H. Barbour
- Bib ID:
- 1753134
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Larkin, James Ross, 1831-1875
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1990
- xvi, 202 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
-
- 0826311830
- 082631208X
- Full contents:
-
- Machine derived contents note: Illustrations ix
- Foreword xi
- Acknowledgments xv
- Part One:
- James Ross Larkin and the Santa Fe Trail xvii
- i Introduction i
- 2 "In Search of Better Health" 19
- 3 St. Louis and Santa Fe: A Comparison in 1856 31
- 4 The Health Frontier on the Santa Fe Trail 45
- 5 The Trail to Santa Fe 53
- Part Two:
- Larkin's Santa Fe Trail Diary 65
- Appendix i
- 1856 Inventory of Goods 123
- Appendix 2
- 1856-57 Newspaper Accounts 129
- Appendix 3 1866 Letters 133
- Notes 137
- Bibliography 181
- Index 191.
- Notes:
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- "Memorandum book of Jas. R. Larkin of St. Louis, Mo.": p. 67-121.
- "Published in cooperation with the Historical Society of New Mexico."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189)
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