Presents a history of the Santa Fe Trail, a nineteenth-century, nine-hundred-mile transportation route which ran between Franklin, Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico, discussing some of the colorful ch
In today's world of jet airplanes and smooth highways, it is nearly impossible to imagine the hardships faced by the thousands of people who headed west along the great Oregon Trail. In this detailed
Here are the printers who founded the first papers, arriving in town with a shirttail of type and a secondhand press, setting up shop under trees, in tents, in barns or storefronts, moving on when the
