The route of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition
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Date
1935
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Carroll, H. Bailey (Horace Bailey), 1903-1966
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This study is confined to somewhat narrow limits, namely, the unmarked route of the expedition from the time of its organization to its final capture by the Mexican forces at Laguna Colorada. No attempt will be made here to justify or condemn Lamar for the major part that he took in fostering the Santa Fe venture. To keep within its prescribed limits, this study proposes to deal with the route of the expedition, to mark the limits of the trail as definitely as the materials available will permit, and to give a critical examination and estimate of all available accounts and writings dealing with the trail. This is, then, largely a study of topography that leads from Austin, Texas, into the eastern section of New Mexico, across a region known, in 1841, only to the nomadic Indians of the western plains. Both old and new materials have been used in the attempt to establish the route and chronology of the trail.