Trading in Santa Fe
Auteur : John M. Kingsbury
Date de publication : 1996
Éditeur : Southern Methodist University Press
Nombre de pages : 326
Résumé du livre
A collection of business correspondence written from 1853 to 1861 by Kingsbury to his Connecticut business partner in the Santa Fe mercantile firm of Webb and Kingsbury, yielding a wealth of economic and social information. The letters document prices, trading, and tidbits of news from the Santa Fe trail, including tales of robberies, frontier adventures, and commercial rivalries. The letters are annotated with editorial introductions and the volume contains some illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR