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Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail

Name: Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail
Brand: University of Oklahoma Press
SKU: 9780806110165
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Contributors:

Lewis H. Garrard, A. B. Guthrie (Introduction by)

Publisher:

University of Oklahoma Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Travel, History

Book Subcategory:

United States

Book Topic:

19th Century

Edition Description:

Revised Edition

Series:

Western Frontier Library #5

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Release Date:

2017-09-21

ISBN 13:

9780806110165

Weight:

0.61 lbs

Size:

7.50 x 4.71 x 0.67 inches

Pages:

320

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Description

In the bright morning of his youth Lewis H. Garrard traveled into the wild and free Rocky Mountain West and left us this fresh and vigorous account, which, says A. B. Guthrie, Jr., contains in its pages "the genuine article-the Indian, the trader, the mountain man, their dress, and behavior and speech and the country and climate they lived in."

On September 1, 1846, Garrard, then only seventeen years old, left Westport Landing (now Kansas City) with a caravan, under command of the famous trader Céran St. Vrain, bound for Bent's Fort (Fort William) in the southeastern part of present-day Colorado. After a lengthy visit at the fort and in a camp of the Cheyenne Indians, early in 1847 he joined the little band of volunteers recruited by William Bent to avenge the death of his brother, Governor Charles Bent of Taos, killed in a bloody but brief Mexican and Indian uprising in that New Mexican pueblo. In fact, Garrard's is the only eyewitness account we have of the trial and hanging of the "revolutionaries" at Taos.

Many notable figures of the plains and mountains dot his pages: traders St. Vrain and the Bents; mountain men John L. Hatcher, Jim Beckwourth, Lucien B. Maxwell, Kit Carson, and others; various soldiery traveling to and from the outposts of the Mexican War; and explorer and writer George F. Ruxton.

About the Author
Garrard, Lewis H.: -

Hector Lewis Garrard (alias Lewis H. Garrard) returned in the summer of 1847 to his home in Cincinnati, where he studied medicine and perhaps law. One of the early settlers of southeastern Minnesota and a man of civic consequence, he finally went back to Cincinnati, where he died at the age of fifty-eight.

Guthrie, A. B.: -

A. B. Guthrie, JR., Reporter, editor, and teacher, author of The Big Sky and The Way West, and winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Fiction, A. B. GUTHRIE, JR., needs no introduction to American readers. His enthusiasm for Garrard's book sets the reader on his way in full possession of the background.

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