Murder On The Santa Fe Trail. An International Incident, 1843

MARC SIMMONS

Publication: Texas Western Press, 1987, El Paso

First edition. 8vo. Two-tone cloth, titles and device stamped in silver gilt on the front cover and spine, xviii, 92 pp., preface, introduction, illustrated from photographs. In 1843, Don Antonio Jose Chavez, a popular merchant in New Mexico, was robbed and killed along the Santa Fe Trail in central Kansas. The crime was committed by 15 outlaws from western Missouri who had obtained a commission from the Republic of Texas to attack Mexican freighters traveling between Santa Fe and Independence. A well researched account of an international incident that threatened to disrupt the profitable overland trade. The first book to deal entirely with the murder of Don Antonio Jose Chavez by a gang of outlaws from western Missouri in 1843. Fine in dust jacket.