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Dangerous Passage: The Santa Fe Trail and the Mexican War
Published in Hardcover by Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Txt) (1994)
Authors: William Y. Chalfant, Mont David Williams, and Marc Simmons
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Dangerous Passage: The Santa Fe Trail and the Mexican War
Mr. Chalfont has provided a truly an outstanding and original contribution to knowledge on the Mexican War of 1846-1848. Often under reported by many authors who concentrate on the more famous actions south of the Rio Grande, the campaign to secure the Santa Fe Trail was crucially important to President Polk's wider efforts at expanding the boundaries of the United States. Presaging by decades the later Indian Wars, the Santa Fe Trail between 1846 and 1848 saw some of the first concerted efforts by the US Government to utilize its military forces in the preservation of an economic pipeline. The author has also avoided the tendency of many "specialists" to present his research as a litany of dull facts. He has opted instead to relate history as a sequence of connected narratives that succeeds in conveying the flavor of the times as well as the historical substance. Replete with excellent photos and maps, I highly recommend this book to anyone with a serious interest in this important conflict.


Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition and the Battle of Solomon's Fork
Published in Hardcover by Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) (1990)
Authors: William Y. Chalfant and Roy Grinnell
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Cheyennes at Dark Water Creek: The Last Fight of the Red River War
Published in Hardcover by Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) (1997)
Authors: William Y. Chalfant, Mont David Williams, Father Peter John Powell, and William Y. Chalfont
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