THE OLD SANTA FE TRAIL

The Story of a Great Highway

By COLONEL HENRY INMAN

Late Assistant Quartermaster, United States Army


With a Preface by W. F. "BUFFALO BILL" CODY







PREFACE.



As we look into the open fire for our fancies, so we are apt to
study the dim past for the wonderful and sublime, forgetful of the
fact that the present is a constant romance, and that the happenings
of to-day which we count of little importance are sure to startle
somebody in the future, and engage the pen of the historian,
philosopher, and poet.

Accustomed as we are to think of the vast steppes of Russia and
Siberia as alike strange and boundless, and to deal with the unkown