Willard Rowland Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico: The Travel Diaries and Autobiography of Dr. Rowland Willard 9780806157511

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Автор: Willard Rowland
Название: Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico: The Travel Diaries and Autobiography of Dr. Rowland Willard
ISBN: 9780806157511
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Биографии: общее жизнеописание

Биографии деятелей науки, техники и медицины

Дневники, письма и журналы

История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Географическое открытие и исследование

Краеведение

ISBN-10: 0806157518
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 280
Вес: 0.43 кг.
Дата издания: 07.11.2016
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 7 black & white illustrations and 3 maps
Размер: 235 x 156 x 17
Подзаголовок: The travel diaries and autobiography of dr. rowland willard
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: One of the first Anglo-Americans to record their travels to New Mexico, Dr. Rowland Willard (1794-1884) journeyed west on the Santa Fe Trail in 1825 and then down the Camino Real into Mexico, taking notes along the way. This edition of the young physicians travel diaries and subsequent autobiography, annotated by New Mexico Deputy State Librarian Joy L. Poole, is a rich historical source on the two trails and the practice of medicine in the 1820s.
Few Americans knew much about New Mexico when Willard set out on his journey from St. Charles, Missouri, where he had recently completed a medical apprenticeship. The growing commerce with the Southwest presented opportunities for the ambitious doctor. On his first day travelling the plains of the Santa Fe Trail, he met the mountain man Hugh Glass, who regaled Willard with stories of his wilderness experiences. Conducting a physical examination of Glass, Dr. Willard provided the only eye witness medical account of Glasss deformities resulting from a grizzly bear attack. Willard referred to the mountain man as Father Glass, a testimony to his age. He visited Santa Fe, practiced medicine in Taos, then traveled south to Chihuahua, arriving during a measles epidemic. Willard treated patients in Mexico for two years before returning to Missouri in 1828.
Willards narrative challenges long-accepted assumptions about the exact routes taken by pack trains on the Santa Fe Trail. It also provides thrilling glimpses of a landscape densely populated with wildlife. The doctor describes -a great theater of nature, - with droves of elk and buffalo, and -wolf and antelope skipping in every direction.- With his traveling companions he hunted buffalo by crawling after them on all fours, afterward making jerky out of bison meat and boats out of their hides. Willard also details his medical practice, offering a revealing view of physicians operating practices in a time when sanitation and anesthesia were rare.
The Santa Fe Trail and Camino Real took Willard on the journey of a lifetime. This account recalls the early days of the Santa Fe Trail trade and westward American migration, when a doctor from Missouri could cross paths with mountain men, traders, Mexican clergymen, and government officials on their way to new opportunities.
Дополнительное описание: Biography: general|Medicine: general issues|History of the Americas|General and world history

Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico: The Travel Diaries and Autobiography of Dr. Rowland Willard, Willard Rowland