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100	1		_aMagoffin, Susan Shelby _d, 1827-1855
245	1	0	_aDown the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico _b: the diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 _c/ edited by Stella M. Drumm ; with a forword by Howard R. Lamar
260			_aLincoln _b: University of Nebraska Press _c, 1982 _c, c1926.
300			_axxxv, 294 p., [5] leaves of plates _b: ill. _c; 21 cm.
440		0	_aYale Western Americana paperbound ; YW-3.
504			_aIncludes bibliography: p. [267]-276 and index.
520			_aIn June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Mexico and south to Chihuahua. Her travel journal was written at a crucial time, when the Mexican War was beginning and New Mexico was occupied by Stephen Watts Kearny and the Army of the West. Her journal describes the excitement, routine, and dangers of a successful merchant's wife. On the trail for fifteen months, moving from house to house and town to town, she became adept in Spanish and the lingo of traders, and wrote down in detail the customs and appearances of places she went. She gave birth to her first child during the journey and admitted, "This thing of marrying is not what it is cracked up to be." Valuable as a social and historical record of her encounters she met Zachary Taylor and was agreeably disappointed to find him disheveled but kindly her journal is equally important as a chronicle of her growing intelligence, experience, and strength, her lost illusions and her coming to terms with herself.
600	1	4	_aMagoffin, Susan Shelby _d, 1827-1855
651			_aSanta Fe Trail _x-Personal narratives
651		4	_aChihuahua Trail _x-Personal narratives
651			_aNew Mexico _x-History _y-19th century _x-Personal narratives
700	1		_aDrumm, Stella M.
700	1		_aLamar, Howard R.
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