Overland with Kit Carson: A Narrative of the Old Spanish Trail in '48

George Douglas Brewerton

Lt. Brewerton provides a lively account of travel over the Spanish Trail at a time when trail commerce was near a close. The account illustrates the many perils that beset travelers over this route from Santa Fe to California.

Marc Simmons has written a fine introduction for the Bison Books edition that sets the context for the journey and gives some of its publishing history.