Disaster at the Colorado Beale's wagon road and the first emigrant party
Across north-central New Mexico and Arizona, along the line of Route 66, now Interstate 40, there first ran a little-known wagon trail called Beale's Wagon Road, after Edward F. Beale, who surveyed it for the War Department in 1857. This survey became famous for employing camels. Not so well kn...
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Utah State University Press
©2002©2002, 2002
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-209) and index
- Ch. 1, The Roster
- ch. 2, The Santa Fe Trail
- ch. 3, A New road west
- ch. 4, Westward ho!
- ch. 5, Little water-Many Indians
- ch. 6, Battle at the Colorado
- ch. 7, The long road back
- ch. 8, A cold miserable winter
- ch. 9, California at last
- ch. 10, The legal battle
- ch. 11, The later years
- Appendix A: Roster of the Rose-Baley Wagon Train
- Appendix B: Letter from John Udell to his brothers
- Appendix C: Indian depredation claim of Leonard J. Rose