Land of Enchantment: Memoirs of Marian Russell Along the Santa Fe Trail

By Marion Sloan Russell

Book Overview

The Santa Fe Trail was one of the great commercial routes across the West, frequented more by merchants than by emigrants. Hence women travelers were few on the Santa Fe Trail, and Land of Enchantment... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826308058
• ISBN13: 9780826308054
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Western Hustory - Women

This is a wopnderful book. Hard to put down. She makes the traverse from the East to New Mexican seem easy, but also gets the hardships across. Her positive attitute is inspiring! A very good read.

Great Book

I bought this book while vacationing in Taos, NM last October. It is a wonderful book about that whole area and of course Marion's trips by wagon over and back and over again the Santa Fe Trail. It has a lot of history in the book. After visiting Kit Carson's home and this book I felt I receive a history lesson no one received in our schools today. This book should be read by all students.

History becomes personal

I purchased this book originally to help me pass the time on a business trip in my hotel room - my mother grew up on a farm in Kansas traversed by trail and I had heard stories all of my life - mostly a lot of legends - I had occasion to visit northeast New Mexico several times over the past twenty years and now having read this book I have a deep respect and reverence for those persons whose dreams and visions made possible the taming of the American frontier - I became personally involved in the life story of Marian Russell and came away at the conclusion of the book feeling as if I had heard the story of a close family member - it was as if I were there with her living the story as well - wished there were more