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Books with title The Santa Fe Trail

  • Along the Santa Fe Trail

    Marc Simmons, Joan Myers

    Hardcover (University of New Mexico Press, Dec. 1, 1986)
    Joan Myers' rich black-and-white photographs of the area surrounding the Santa Fe Trail are accompanied by an historical essay by author Marc Simmons. Text and photographs combine to realize a vivid sense of what the trail was like throughout its 60 years of use and what has become of its remains today. An evocative visual and historical retracing of one of the most important overland trade routes of the nineteenth century.
  • Traveling The Santa Fe Trail

    Linda Thompson

    language (Rourke Educational Media, Nov. 30, 2018)
    Young learners will be introduced to an important stage in history when they read Traveling The Santa Fe Trail. This book is filled with photographs, interesting facts, discussion questions, and more, to effectively engage young learners in such a significant re-telling of events. Each 48-page title in The History Of America Collection delves into complex narratives in history. Concise, but comprehensive, these titles are very approachable for transitioning readers and learners beginning to recognize detail orientation and how to analyze text. Each book in this series features photographs, timelines, discussion questions, and more, to fully engage transitioning readers. The History Of America Collection engages students in major historical events with fascinating facts, photographs, and more. Readers are able to gauge their own understanding with before-reading questions that help build background knowledge and end-of-book comprehension and extension activities.
  • Youth on the Santa Fe Trail

    Camilla Kattell

    eBook (Light Horse Publishing, Nov. 29, 2015)
    Ten exciting stories of young people who traveled the Santa Fe Trail in the nineteenth century. Their courage, perseverance, fears, motivations, and successes serve as an inspiration today to young and old. Learn about the character of these forebears of our country and know them as role models for our own time. Kit Carson, Dick Wootton, Francis Parkman Jr, Susan Shelby Magoffin, Marion Sloan Russell, and others have left us with detailed stories of what travel on the trail, by oxen or mule, was really like. Hear the sounds of the wagon train, see the evening sunset as they did, know the excitement of the buffalo hunt, visit the heartache they knew with death on the trail, and learn where the trail took their lives.
  • The Santa Trap

    Jonathan Emmett, Poly Bernatene

    Hardcover (Peachtree Publishing Company, Oct. 1, 2012)
    Bradley Bartleby is bad. Very bad.To avoid Bradley’s wrath, his wealthy parents buy him whatever he wants. All the adults in Bradley’s life are running scared―except for Santa Claus, who refuses to give him anything but socks. But Bradley vows to get what he deserves. If Santa won’t give him the gifts he wants, Bradley will just have to steal them. In the end, he transforms his house into a trap so fearsome even his parents refuse to enter it. With dynamite, trapdoors, guillotines, and tigers in his path, Santa doesn’t stand a chance. Or does he?Jonathan Emmet gives readers a Christmas tale from a new and devious perspective. Poly Bernatene’s illustrations perfectly complement the story of the spoiled Bradley, making this a hilarious and exciting story that will keep readers laughing from beginning to end.
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  • On the Santa Fe Trail

    James A. Crutchfield

    eBook (TwoDot, May 17, 2019)
    The Santa Fe Trail’s role as the major western trade route in the early to mid-nineteenth century made it a critical part of America’s Westward expansion and the stories of its heyday include some of the greatest adventures in the history of the Old West. Drawn from first-hand accounts of early entrepreneurs and emigrants who braved the Santa Fe Trail between 1820 and 1880, this history reveals the lure of the West and puts its importance to American history in context. On the Santa Fe Trail paints a portrait of the land before the wagon tracks were carved in its surface and recounts the hardships, dangers, and adventures faced by the hardy souls who went West to make their fortunes.
  • On the Santa Fe Trail

    James A. Crutchfield

    Paperback (TwoDot, May 3, 2019)
    The Santa Fe Trail’s role as the major western trade route in the early to mid-nineteenth century made it a critical part of America’s Westward expansion and the stories of its heyday include some of the greatest adventures in the history of the Old West. Drawn from first-hand accounts of early entrepreneurs and emigrants who braved the Santa Fe Trail between 1820 and 1880, this history reveals the lure of the West and puts its importance to American history in context. On the Santa Fe Trail paints a portrait of the land before the wagon tracks were carved in its surface and recounts the hardships, dangers, and adventures faced by the hardy souls who went West to make their fortunes.
  • The Santa Fe Trail

    Jean F. Blashfield

    Paperback (Compass Point Books, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Introduces the history and economic purpose of the Santa Fe Trail and the resulting settlement of the Southwest United States.
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  • The Santa Fe Trail

    Lavender David

    Paperback (SCHOLASTIC, March 15, 2004)
    Scholastic
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  • The Santa Fe Trail

    Ryan P. Randolph

    Library Binding (Powerkids Pr, July 1, 2003)
    Provides historical information about the founding of the Santa Fe Trail and about the lives and experiences of the people who used this route to the West.
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  • The Santa Fe Trail

    Judy Alter

    Library Binding (Childrens Pr, June 1, 1998)
    Presents a history of the trail that became an important commercial route to the southwestern United States during the 1800s
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  • The Santa Fe Trail

    Linda Thompson

    Library Binding (Rourke Pub Group, July 1, 2004)
    aIntroduces the history and purpose of the Santa Fe Trail and the resulting settlement of the Southwest.
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  • Santa Fe Trail

    David Lavender

    Hardcover (Holiday House, March 1, 1995)
    A history of the famed trail leading into the West from Missouri to Santa Fe covers the years from 1822 to 1879, when the Santa Fe Trail was most busy, before being replaced by the railroad.
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