Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail Dan Gibson Author: Paul Christian

Author: Paul Christian

Author: John Cassian

First published in 1992 (by Basic Books)

Leonard Merritt

Mary Elizabeth Fitts

Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail Dan Gibson Author: Paul ChristianIn 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