Wagonmasters High Plains Freighting from the Earliest Days of the Santa Fe Trail to 1880
Entry/Object ID
L1971.1.25
Description
Wagon masters High Plains Freighting from the Earliest Days of the Santa Fe Trail to 1880 explains the necessity of wagon trains to carry the goods of trade to the Southwest and Santa Fe. The wagon masters brought in food and drink for the settlements, supplies for the army sent to fight Indians and Mexicans, and carried back the gold from the of Colorado and Montana during the Civil War-essential to the war effort. They were the direct descendants of the bargemen of the Erie Canal and the keelboat men of the Mississippi. Bullwhackers and muleskinners were a breed apart, but like the U.S. mail, almost always came through.
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