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Autumn, 2003
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Book Review


Bound for Santa Fe: The Road to New Mexico and the American Conquest, 1806– 1848. By Stephen G. Hyslop. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. xiii + 514 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)
      Once in a while a book attains benchmark status in the historiography of a particular subject. Bound for Santa Fe might well do so. It has many of the necessary ingredients. Its palate is sweeping, and the author's handling of the story is both complex and captivating. More than any other recent work of history on the Santa Fe Trail and trade, it captures the essence of the story and relates it to an audience removed from it by some 175 years. Most of all, Bound for Santa Fe is an exceptionally well-written work of history, tantalizing in its depictions and seductive in the power of its narrative. . . .
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