| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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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. xiv, 514 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3389-9.)

The Santa Fe Trail figures, to many Americans, as the epitome of the romantic West of the nineteenth century. Opened to commerce by William Becknell in 1821, the road stretched from Franklin (later, from Independence), Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico; from there, it continued southward to Chihuahua along the old Camino Real, New Mexico's traditional economic link to Mexico's heartland. The Santa Fe Trail sparked excitement and curiosity not only because of its economic potential but also because it brought Americans into contact with a culturally "exotic" area, and literary output about the trail, which was considerable during its heyday during the 1830s and 1840s, has continued to the present. Stephen G. Hyslop, an independent scholar, now stakes his claim on the subject.

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