Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail [SOLD]


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  • Subject: Native American: General
  • Item # C4424ZB
  • Date Published: 1955, fifth printing 1972
  • Size: Hardback with slipcover, 302 pages
  • SOLD

Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail or Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances, with a Look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire

by Lewis H. Garrard

University of Oklahoma Press, 1955, fifth printing 1972

Hardback with slipcover, 302 pages


This is not a novel; it is a true story.  In the bright morning of his youth Lewis H. Garrard traveled into the wild and free Rocky Mountain West and left us this fresh and vigorous account, which, says A. B. Guthrie Jr., contains in its pages “the genuine article—the Indian, the trader, the mountain man, their dress, and behavior and speech and the country and climate they lived in.”

On September 1, 1846, Garrard, then only seventeen years old, left Westport Landing (now Kansas City) with a caravan, under command of the famous trader Céran St. Vrain, bound for Bent’s Fort (Fort William) in the southeastern part of present-day Colorado.  After a lengthy visit at the fort and in a camp of the Cheyenne Indians, early in 1847 he joined the little band of volunteers recruited by William Bent to avenge the death of his brother, Governor Charles Bent of Taos, killed in a bloody but brief Mexican and Indian uprising in that New Mexican pueblo.  In fact, Garrard’s is the only eyewitness account we have of the trial and hanging of the “revolutionaries” at Taos.

  • Subject: Native American: General
  • Item # C4424ZB
  • Date Published: 1955, fifth printing 1972
  • Size: Hardback with slipcover, 302 pages
  • SOLD

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