The Santa Fe Trail was one of the great commercial routes across the West, frequented more by merchants than by emigrants.
Published in a limited edition in 1954 and highly praised by scholars, that edition has become virtually impossible to o.
The author, Marian Russell (1845-1936), dictated her story to her daughter-in-law in the 1930s.
Hence women travelers were few on the Santa Fe Trail, and Land of Enchantment is one of the few firsthand accounts by a woman of life on the trail.
The Santa Fe Trail was one of the great commercial routes across the West, frequented more by merchants than by emigrants