Footloose on the Santa Fe Trail

Description

Author: May, Stephen

Publisher: University Press of Colorado (Niwot, CO)

Pub Date: 1993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: 2 copies.  Copy 1 (DU):  Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends, folds.  Remainder mark to bottom text block.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped (No price indicated).  Slight creasing to upper and lower front cover edges.

Notes: A walking trip from Bent’s Fort in Colorado, along the eastern edge of the Sangre de Christos, to Santa Fe, on foot.  May weaves the stories of some of the major figures in Santa Fe Trail history into his trek–Stephen Kearny, Susan and Samuel Magoffin, Ceran St. Vrain, Charles and William Bent, several others–who traveled the Trail in 1846 and 1847.  Call it historical fiction or fictional history, coupled with memoir.