Now Available! - Back Issues CD of
Spanish Traces Journal
By popular request!
This is the complete collection of the Spanish Traces journal for the years 1995 and updated through 2009.
A must for your Spanish Trail library.
Click here for free sample copy of Spanish Traces - 3 MB.
In Search of the
Old Spanish Trail
$29.95
Special Reprint Book Offer! In Search of the Old Spanish Trail
Order your copy of a special reprint of this Gregory Crampton and Steve Madsen classic In Search of the Old Spanish Trail. Proceeds benefit the Old Spanish Trail Association.
This book is a distillation of about 50 years of research on the Old Spanish Trail by the late Dr. Crampton and about 20 years by Mr. Madsen.
The book is an indispensable companion for travel over the trail. It has trail maps, short sections on trail history and a large number of photographs. It covers what the authors have identified as the main thread of the OST South Branch.
American Journey
Music CD
$15.00
American Journey - Music CD
Featuring the China Philharmonic Orchestra, Xun Sun, conductor.
Original music and arrangements by American composers Steven Sharp Nelson & Marshall McDonald.
Includes the Old Spanish Suite: Sunrise, Rainstorm, March, and Celebration and four other musical selections.
The Spanish Trail Suite composed by Marshall McDonald and Steven Sharp Nelson and performed by the Orchestra of Southern Utah has teamed with Video Ideas Production of Chattanooga, Tennessee to create a new orchestra experience combining stunning time-lapse video of storms unfolding, moon rises, sunsets and re-creations of trail scenes.
The Spanish Trail Suite was commissioned by the Orchestra of Southern Utah with help from the National Endowment of the Arts and local foundations. The composers created a piece celebrating the three cultures which settled the West along the route of trails stretching from Santa Fe to Los Angeles. The interactive project produced by Video Ideas focuses on more than 100 miles of the Trail in Iron and Washington Counties.
Brent Tom, local Paiute caller, serves as the guest soloist for the Sunrise movement. His inspired performance adds depth to the first movement which honors the local Paiute Tribe.
The Hafen's book is the most fundamental reference on the Old Spanish Trail. Although somewhat dated, it remains the one book that any serious student of the trail must have. Unfortunately, it is out of print, although it can be obtained from antiquarian dealers from time to time.
The book reviews the history of the trail, sets its historical context, includes much of the material found in the few specific contemporary references on the trail and its travelers, and provides chapters that confer substantial insight into the mechanics of moving goods on the backs of mules about 1200 miles through very forbidding terrain
Gone By the Way of the Earth
$15.00
Gone the Way of the Earth: Indian Slave Trade in the Old Southwest
Clifford J. Walker
This book is dedicated to "All those victims of Indian slavery in the Southwest whose thousands of stories will never be told - they lost their lands, their songs, their lives and their freedom - all gone the way of the earth."
Soft Cover: $15.00
Exploring Desert Stone
$29.00
Exploring Desert Stone: John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado
Steven K. Madsen
Madsen’s work provides the first detailed investigation of the 1859 Macomb Expedition into western Colorado and the canyon country of Utah. Beyond his first-rate analysis, Madsen presents the most important elements of the venture’s documentary record, making this fascinating study and significant contribution to our understanding of the Southwest also a valuable resource for anyone who loves the American West.
The book contains many references to the Old Spanish Trail (eastern portion--NM, CO, UT). The mapping and scientific group followed the Main Branch of the Old Spanish Trail going out and part of the Armijo Route coming back to Santa Fe.
Macomb's beautiful map in the back pocket shows several post-1848 expedition routes, in addition to Macomb's. Mr. Madsen's text is masterfully written. His inclusion of diaries of two Macomb scientists provides reinforcement of Madsen's summary. Some superb drawings of trail features are matched to recent photos.
288 pages
Soft Cover: $29.00
Overland with Kit Carson
$12.95
Overland with Kit Carson: A Narrative of the Old Spanish Trail in '48
Brewerton, George Douglas
Lt. Brewerton provides a lively account of travel over the Spanish Trail at a time when trail commerce was near a close. The account illustrates the many perils that beset travelers over this route from Santa Fe to California.
Marc Simmons has written a fine introduction for the Bison Books edition that sets the context for the journey and gives some of its publishing history.
Incidents of Travel and
Adventure in the Far West
$16.95
Incidents of Travel, Solomon Carvalho
In 1852, Carvalho accompanied John C. Fremont on his fifth expedition from Missouri to Utah, a journey that required travel over several ranges in the Rocky Mountains. Stranded by heavy snowstorms in 1853–54, many people died along the way to Utah. Carvalho became seriously ill and left the Fremont party in Parowan, Utah and then traveled to Salt Lake City. While in Salt Lake, he became a popular portrait artist with subjects including Brigham Young, authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and other Utah notables.
In 1857, Carvalho went on a peace mission with Brigham Young in central Utah where he painted portraits of Native American leaders such as Wakra, Indian Chief
Old Spanish Trail Pin
$5.00
Old Spanish Trail Lapel Pin
This unique and attractive lapel pin is based on the original Old Spanish Trail Association logo. It is destined to become a collector's item as the new NPS logo takes shape.
Order yours now and show your support of this great western historic trail.
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