Dangerous Passage: The Santa Fe Trail and the Mexican War by William Y Chalfant

 
Author Name    Chalfant, William Y. 
 
Title   Dangerous Passage: The Santa Fe Trail and the Mexican War

Binding   Hardcover

Book Condition   Near Fine

Type   Book

Edition   First Edition

Publisher   Norman, OK, U.S.A. University of Oklahoma Press 1994

ISBN Number    0806126132 / 9780806126135 

Seller ID   016533

Hardcover with DJ in mylar. University of Oklahoma Press, 1994, first edition. In near fine condition. Americans in the mid 1840's, facing a nearly empty continent stretching to the West, saw it as their natural right, their "Manifest Destiny" to annex this land to the United States. The young country traveled to is "destiny" over a rough, rutted, dangerous road: The Santa Fe Trail.

HISTORY  NORTH  AMERICA  MILITARY 

Price = 35.00 USD

Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition and the Battle of Solomon's Fork by William Y Chalfant

 
Author Name    Chalfant, William Y. 
 
Title   Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition and the Battle of Solomon's Fork

Binding   Hardcover

Book Condition   Very Good

Type   Book

Publisher   Norman, OK, U.S.A. University of Oklahoma Press 1990

ISBN Number    0806121947 / 9780806121949 

Illustrator   Roy Grinnell

Inscription   Signed by Author(s)

Seller ID   016416

Hardcover. University of Oklahoma Press, second printing, 1990. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. In very good condition, edges lightly bumped, some minor pages soiling, DJ is very good, bottom of spine lightly bumped, protected by mylar cover. The first major battle between the US Army and the Cheyenne Indians took place on the south fork of the Solomon River in present-day Kansas. It was the only large-unit sabre charge against the Plains tribes in a battle that was as much a clash of cultures as of cavalry and Cheyenne warriors.

HISTORY  NORTH  AMERICA  SOCIAL  SCIENCE  

Price = 35.00 USD