Over the Santa Fé Trail, 1857

Chapter 21: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

A first-person narrative recounts an overland journey across the Santa Fé Trail, describing the assembling of a heavily laden wagon train, the personalities and leadership of its captain, daily life in camp, hunting and encounters with wildlife, skirmishes and tense interactions with Native American groups, and the hardships of travel such as broken wagons, difficult river crossings, and livestock problems; the account blends practical details of routes and equipment with vivid anecdotes of companions and episodes of danger, culminating in arrival at frontier settlements and reflections on the physical and moral strains of frontier travel.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

Transcriber added the Table of Contents and the List of Illustrations. Page numbers in the List of Illustrations match the positions in this eBook, not the ones in the original book.