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<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">Written as a scrupulously accurate guidebook to the prairies and as an authoritative account of the early Santa Fe trade, <em><b>Commerce of the Prairies</b> </em>has been a favorite of historians, ethnologists, naturalists, and collectors of Western Americana for generations. But Gregg’s masterpiece is not for specialists alone: its vivid descriptions of desert mirages, wagon caravans, Indian alarms and attacks, buffalo hunts, and other early Western phenomena will delight all who wish to know the country as it was before the great herds of buffalo were slaughtered and the roving Indians confined to reservations, before the landscape was transformed by barbed wire, domestic cattle, plowed fields, and modern highways.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><b>Josiah Gregg</b>, a man of rare sensitivity and passionate science interest, joined a caravan of traders bound for Santa Fé in 1831 and almost immediately developed a fascination for the adventure-packed life of Santa Fé trader. And during the ten years that he engaged in the San Fé trade, Gregg took copious notes on the life and landscape of the American prairies and the Mexican plateau, later utilizing them in <em><b>Commerce of the Prairies</b>. </em></p>
<br>Subjects: Josiah Gregg; Commerce of the Prairies; Incidents of Travel in Yucatan; John Lloyd Stephens; 1843; Legends Of Mexico; 1847; George Lippard; Quaker City; Monks of Monk's Hall; Return Of The Native; Battle; Dead Souls; Arctic passage; 1850s; 1853; Gogol; Travel; Moby Dick; Western; Mormonism Unvailed; French Directory; volunteer; novel; War and Peace; Victorian Era; Diary of a Madman; Siege of Sevastopol; invasion of Russia; Russian Empire; Island; 1834; Count Of Monte Cristo; sailors; Queen Victoria; history; 19th Century; Novel; poetic; camp; LDS; Life On The Mississippi; Leo Tolstoy; Trail; Thriller; Light Brigade; ED Howe; Emperor Russia; Alexandre Dumas; British Army; Herman Melville; Ulm Campaign; Alma; Brigham Young; Thomas Hardy; Life And Work; Lorenzo Dow; course; Christian; Wilderness Preacher; Mansfield Park; Literary; adventure; Typee; Napoléon Bonaparte; Herman Melville; Benjamin Scrivener; adventure; 1866; Christ; George Eliot; Tale; 1815; Gothic; Gogol; Repin; The Idiot; Silas Marner; Camp Life Of A Volunteer; Christopher Lee; 1850s; book of Mormon; horror; Utah; War and Peace; Leipzig; Napoleonic Code; Austrian Empire; Dostoyevsky; Western; 1845; First Consul; West; Tell Tale Heart; poetry; Black Cat; Jesus; Lorenzo Dow; book of mormon; Herman Melville; Queen Victoria; mountain man; Mutiny; Tracker; short story; Leo Tolstoy; Victorian Era; Saint Helena; General; Danites; Mormon; Holy Bible; history; wild west; Zion; Elba; Horror; Iberian Peninsula; poetic; Chekov; Thriller; Victorian Era; November; black cat; Mark Twain; War And Peace; Mark Twain; Continental System; Turgenev; daguerreotype; Literary; Czarist; Vincent Price; 19th Century; Sevastopol; premature burial; Western; Literature; Documentary; Battle; Salt Lake City; fathers and sons; Oliver Twist; Daguerreotypes; Prussia; Drama; Moby Dick; Wilderness Preacher; 1812; Emperor of the French; horse; Austerlitz; Peninsular War; Mormon Trail; French Revolution; American History; USA; West; Fourth Coalition; Third Coalition; Grande Armée; 18th Century; mountain man; Inkerman; War; Russian Literature; 1810; Jena; Auerstedt; Hundred Days; David Copperfield; 1809; Wagram; macabre; mountain; Czar; 1847; Nauvoo Temple; Charles Dickens; course; Polygamy; The Brothers Karamazov; Corsica; Vengence; 1840s; 19th Century; Silas; 1799; George Furber; LDS Movie; Alfred Tennyson; Tolstoy; Crimean War; Ulysses Grant; Russia; General Lee; Literature; Crime And Punishment; Oregon; Tale; Journal Of A Private; Charge; The Possessed; Trail; Civil War; 1850s; The Overcoat; Czarist Russia; Literature; Civil War; Franklin Expedition; Harper's Ferry; 1849; Victorian Era; Gothic; Balaclava; Biography; 19th Century</div>
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