Wagons Westward : The Old Trail to Santa Fe

Armstrong Sperry (1875-1976) is one of the more versatile & vivid authors this country has produced. His great grandfather, Sereno Armstrong, was a clipper captain, & the tales he told of life under sail in the South Pacific ultimately provided the setting for Sperry's Newbery Award Winner, Call It Courage.Ó But Sperry's historical novels, all based on solid research & a strong narrative line featuring young boys who face & subdue daunting challenges, are real page-turners. Wagons WestwardÓ is among the best -- it will give you a whiff of what the journey along the Santa Fe Trail in 1846 must have been like & how a restless America managed to wrest much of the Southwest from Mexico & the Indians. Drawings. Young adult audience. Orig. pub. in 1936.Sperry, Armstrong is the author of 'Wagons Westward : The Old Trail to Santa Fe', published 2005 under ISBN 9780756796938 and ISBN 0756796938.