Review of Hunting and Trading on the Great Plains, 1859-1875

Combining James R. Mead\u27s published and unpublished materials, Hunting and Trading on the Great Plains is a carefully edited memoir from the Kansas prairie in the 1870s-1890s. Mead (1836-1910) ventured west with young friends who planned to look and return; he stayed. And as his life turned from the outdoors to business and politics, Mead saw a wide spectrum of the frontier. He met Jesse Chisholm and Kit Carson, learned to value Indian civilization, and lived long enough to record his memories of these experiences

Review of Hunting and Trading on the Great Plains, 1859-1875

Combining James R. Mead\u27s published and unpublished materials, Hunting and Trading on the Great Plains is a carefully edited memoir from the Kansas prairie in the 1870s-1890s. Mead (1836-1910) ventured west with young friends who planned to look and return; he stayed. And as his life turned from the outdoors to business and politics, Mead saw a wide spectrum of the frontier. He met Jesse Chisholm and Kit Carson, learned to value Indian civilization, and lived long enough to record his memories of these experiences

Review of On the Santa Fe Trail

Twelve sketches populate this pleasant little volume about overland travel between central Missouri and central New Mexico from the 1840s through the 1860s. The informants include teenagers, military and government workers, an aristocrat, a European immigrant, an agent, and a peon. These travelers tell about hardships and danger as they crossed the vast wild plain in the years before 1880, when the railroad finally reached Santa Fe