Youth on the Santa Fe Trail
Youth on the Santa Fe Trail anthologizes the stories of ten young people who traveled the Santa Fe Trail by wagon train in the 1800's. Several wrote first-hand accounts and left us their journals. Others are known through third parties.
These inspiring tales of adventure and vulnerability, hardship and courage depict heroes that young people today can emulate and where they can find a personal relevance that spans the centuries. Escape into this exciting time of the past, listen to the unique voices of these champions of history, and awaken your imagination.
Each generation has opportunities and challenges that are unique. We can't know the kind of unique freedom that this beautiful land offered to them, but we can translate their accomplishments to the kind of perseverance needed today and duplicate their success.
About Camilla Kattell (Albuquerque, New Mexico Author)
Camilla Kattell has pursued her dream of writing after retiring from careers that included raising her children, piloting airplanes, working in the financial industry, and training and caring for ranch horses in the beautiful Pecos Valley of New Mexico.
Her passion for history led to a BA degree with honors in history and social sciences. Living in the Southwest, where the old Santa Fe Trail terminates, has fired her interest in the nineteenth-century period of cultural change, the Land of Enchantment, and for the young people who ventured forth to build lives in what seemed to them like wilderness.
“Cam” has also written At the Confluence of Two Cultures, William and George Bent Confront Manifest Destiny, 1829-1918, soon to be published. The rich history of the 19th century that resulted in building a new country, also has to take into account the effect on the indigenous population of the West. In her new book “Cam” explores the rewards and terrible costs of this transition of dominate cultures.
