As Far As the Eye Could Reach:  Accounts of Animals Along the Santa Fe Trail, 1821-1880, by Phyllis S. Morgan is a wonderful essay collection that examines animal life, both wild and domestic, along the Santa Fe Trail, when it was the “highway of commerce” between Missouri and New Mexico. Morgan includes firsthand accounts from famous travelers—Zebulon Pike, Josiah Gregg, William Becknell—and lesser-known adventurers, freighters, miners and pioneers. In their telling, buffalos ignite hu


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