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William Bent traveled west as a young man in 1829 to build a life for himself and his future family. He and his brother Charles, in partnership with Ceran St. Vrain, built a trading empire in the Southwest during the early years of international trade on the Santa Fe Trail. William managed the construction and running of Bent's Fort, the only civilization between the Missouri frontier and Santa Fe, the capital of Mexico's northern province. Wi...

The first test of Emily Campbell's young life came the night Black Diamond was born and she had to deliver the foal-alone. She could not know, as she approached her fifteenth birthday, that tragedy was about to strike her family and many challenges would follow. Unexpectedly, her anchor through each trial would be a half-starved rescue horse.When sudden death changed all Emily's expectations for her life, she is devastated. She loved working w...

Young people, little known and well known, like Kit Carson, Uncle Dick Wootton, Josiah Gregg, Susan Shelby Magoffin, Francis Parkman Jr., and others come to life in this anthology of their adventures on the Santa Fe Trail. The trail was the road to the southwestern part of the continent becoming a part of our sea-to-sea nation as envisoned by Thomas Jefferson. Trade with the northern provinces of Mexico in the early 19th century opened a road ...