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The Wagonmasters: High Plains Freighting from the Earliest Days of the Santa Fe Trail to 1880 Reissue edition
Henry Pickering Walker
The Wagonmasters: High Plains Freighting from the Earliest Days of the Santa Fe Trail to 1880 Reissue edition
Henry Pickering Walker
The Wagonmasters is the first comprehensive account of this colorful bygone industry and the men who worked the wagon trains--bullwhackers and mile skinners. A breed apart, they developed their own customs and language, greatly enriching American speech. The business was hard, dirty, and dangerous, but the wagon freighters, like the U. S. mail, almost always came through.
388 pages, 25 black & white illustrations, 3 maps
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 15, 1966 |
Original release date | 1986 |
ISBN13 | 9780806119830 |
Publishers | University of Oklahoma Press |
Genre | Cultural Region > Plains |
Pages | 388 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 24 mm · 566 g |