Title: Murder on the Santa Fe Trail: An International Incident, 1843
Recipient of the 1986 C.L. Sonnichsen Book Award.
From the front dust jacket flap: The Chavez murder threw the frontier into an uproar, since it threatened to Marc Simmons begins his study with the events leading up to the crime,
This is the first full-length account of a spectacular crime that created an
international incident in 1843. Don Antonio Jose Chavez, a well know and
popular merchant in New Mexico, was robbed and killed on the trail in
central Kansas. His assailants were fifteen outlaws from western Missouri
who had obtained a commission from the Republic of Texas to attack
Mexican freighters traveling between Santa Fe and Independence.
disrupt the profitable overland trade.
describes the pursuit of the offenders by U.S. Dragoons and citizen posses,
recounts details of the trial and execution of the two ringleaders, and shows
how the murder was linked to other important historical events of the period.
By: Marc Simmons
Publisher: The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
Copyright: 1987, First Edition
ISBN: 87404-202-X
Size/Format: 6 3/8" x 9 1/4", hardcover with dust jacket, 92 pages.
Condition: Ex-library with minimal markings, card pocket. No markings or
stickers on the dust jacket. Very clean & crisp, tight pages, minimal dust jacket
wear.
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