# Over the Santa Fé Trail, 1857

Author: Napton, William Barclay, 1839-1913

Genre: Category: Adventure

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72461

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Over+the+Santa+F%C3%A9+Trail%2C+1857+Napton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

When I was a lad of 12 years of age my father had a red-headed overseer, good-natured, loquacious and fond of telling stories, the kind that suited the understanding and tickled the fancy of a boy. His stories were always related as being truthful accounts of actual occurrences, although I suspected they were frequently creatures of his own imagination. This overseer, a Westerner born and bred, had driven an ox wagon in a train across the plains to New Mexico; had made two trips across--in 1847 and 1848--one extending as far as Chihuahua, in Old Mexico. His observation was keen, and his memory unexcelled, so that, years afterwards, he could relate, in minute detail, the events of every da...

## Chapters

- [Chapter III 93](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/over-the-santa-fe-trail-1857-72461/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/over-the-santa-fe-trail-1857-72461/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/over-the-santa-fe-trail-1857-72461/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/over-the-santa-fe-trail-1857-72461/chapters/4/index.md)