Factory Sealed 12 copies of Bride of Santa Fe Trail books Jean M. Burroughs

Factory Sealed 12 copies of Bride of Santa Fe Trail books Jean M. Burroughs This listing is for 12 copies of the book Br4de of Santa Fe trails. Bought for a classroom project but it got cancelled. They come in pack of 6 sealed. I put in 2 packs of 6 - paperbacks The weight limit os 5 pounds including packaging is reached. I can under no circumstances bundle these books. If you want to add another lot of 12 books they have to be bought in separate transaction. Cannot split up listing. June 11, 1846: ''Now the prairie life begins...'' And thus begins the story of America's first white woman to travel the Santa Fe Trail from Independence, Missouri, to Chihuahua, Mexico--a distance of 1,300 miles. Susan Shelby Magoffin and her well-to-do husband, Samuel, 27 years her senior, experience one trial after another. But the blood of pioneers is in their veins and neither wolves nor Indians, the Mexican War nor the loss of their first child will stop the wheels of their wagons. Based on the trail journal of the heroine, Bride of the Santa Fe Trail is Jean M. Burroughs' salute to the courage and greatness of a little-known figure in American history. It is not the story of the little woman behind the big man--but quite the reverse. In the end her battered Rockaway carriage becomes a symbol of a landscape almost too bleak for human habitation: ''...its wheels patched and mended, its broken top reinforced with assorted studs of used lumber...its shiny black paint dulled by wind-driven