Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico
Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin 1846-1847
Edited by Stella M. Drumm
Her journal describes the excitement, routine, and dangers of a successful merchant's wife. On the trail for fifteen months, moving from house to house and town to town, she became adept in Spanish and the lingo of traders, and wrote down in detail the customs and appearances of places she went.
