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The Santa Fe Trail was one of the two great overland highways originating in Missouri in the nineteenth century. Several decades before settlers streamed over the Oregon Trail, traders were heading southwest. The caravans carried the wares of Yankee commerce; they returned loaded with buffalo robes and beaver pelts and the rich metals of Mexican mines. The thousand-mile journey "was a perilous cruise across a boundless sea of grass, over forbidding mountains, among wild. Beasts and wilder men, ending in an exotic city offering quick riches, friendly foreign women, and a moral holiday," writes Stanley Vestal. Vestal begins where the trail does. He describes outfitting for the trip, the society formed for survival, the hunt for meat, landmarks, and the dangers. He evokes the history and legends surrounding the trail at every point, including figures like Kit Carson, Jedediah Smith, the Bent brothers, and Uncle Dick Wooton.
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Dakota Indians --- Indians of North America --- Lakota Indians --- Lakota Sioux Indians --- Lakotah Indians --- Prairie dweller Indians --- Sioux Indians, Western --- Teton Indians --- Teton Sioux Indians --- Thítunwan Indians --- Titunwan Indians --- Western Sioux Indians --- Siouan Indians --- Nadowessioux Indians --- Naudowessie Indians --- Nawdowissnee Indians --- Sioux Indians --- Wahpakoota Sioux Indians --- Kings and rulers --- Wars. --- Wars --- Dakota --- Ethnography --- Autobiographies and biographies. --- Political anthropology --- Warfare. --- White Bull, Joseph, --- White Bull, --- Pte San Hunka, --- Hunka, Pte San,
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""A tall man, with long black hair, smooth face, dark eyes (inclining to turn his head a little to one side, as much as to say, 'I can tell you about it'), a harum-scarum, don't-care sort of man, full of life and fun. That's how a contemporary described Joe Meek.""Born in Virginia, Joe Meek became a trapper, Indian fighter, pioneer, peace officer, frontier politician, and lover of practical jokes and Jacksonian democracy. He was a boon companion to two other larger-than-life mountain men, Kit Carson and Jim Bridger, and just as important in frontier history.In 1829, our n
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