Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico

Description:

The travel journal of Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, who in 1846 set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Mexico and south to Chihuahua, describes the fifteen-month journey during which the Mexican War was beginning and New Mexico was occupied by Stephen Watts Kearny and the Army of the West.

subjects: Description and travel,  Diaries,  Mexican War, 1846-1848,  Personal narratives,  Frontier and pioneer life, southwest, old,  Mexican war, 1846-1848, personal narratives

People: Susan Shelby Magoffin (1827-1855)

Places: Mexico,  New Southwest,  Santa Fe National Historic Trail