Book Review of Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico

Book Review of Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico

Introduction

Susan Shelby Magoffin in June 1846, 18 years old and married for not more than 8 months got her life started with Samuel Magoffin, (Lamar, 1982) her husband who was an expert Santa Fe merchant, on a march of freedom, Missouri, all the way to New Mexico. Susan wrote her voyage trip at a critical occasion, when the War of Mexico was starting and the Army of the West and Stephen Watts Kearny occupied the New Mexico. This journal beautifully portrays ...