Susan Shelby Magoffin
Author
Series
Yale Western Americana paperbound volume YW-3
Pub. Date
[1982] c1962
Description
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 she wrote down in detail the customs and appearances of the places she went. She gave birth to her first child during the journey.