About This Book
A stagecoach conductor and mail messenger recalls journeys along the Old Santa Fe Trail, offering episodic reminiscences of travel, trade, and daily operations on a hazardous frontier route. He describes extended runs between stations, methods for avoiding theft and stampedes, and his approach to dealing with Indigenous groups by trading provisions and building trust, which earned him a reputation for diplomacy. Interspersed are anecdotes from passengers and soldiers, accounts of clashes and massacres seen from his perspective, and practical observations about life on the plains, stagecoach routines, and the social dynamics of travelers and Native peoples.
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