Bibliography
BOYLE, SUSAN CALAFATE. Hispano Merchants and the Santa Fe Trade (1997). Shows that these Santa Fe traders established contacts from Chihuahua to Philadelphia and beyond.
BRACK, GENE M. Mexico Views Manifest Destiny, 1821–1846 (1975). Mexican thoughts about American expansionism.
CATHER, WILLA. Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927 and later editions). Hauntingly beautiful novel based on the life of the first American archbishop of New Mexico.
CHALFANT, WILLIAM Y. Dangerous Passage: The Santa Fe Trail and the Mexican War (1994). Narrative history of the trail with an emphasis on Indian conflicts.
DRUMM, STELLA M., EDITOR. Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico (1926, 1962). Susan Shelby Magoffin’s colorful description of life on the Santa Fe Trail and in northern Mexico in 1846 and 1847.
DUGGARD, MARTIN. The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 (2008).History of the war emphasizing lessons learned by future Civil War officers.
HYSLOP, STEPHEN G. Bound for Santa Fe: The Road to New Mexico and the American Conquest, 1806–1848 (2002). An economic and cultural history of the Santa Fe trade, exceptionally thorough and compelling.
SMITH, GEORGE WINSTON, AND CHARLES JUDAH, EDITORS. Chronicles of the Gringos (1968). Documentary history of the Mexican War based on eyewitness reports.
WEINBERG, ALBERT K. Manifest Destiny (1935). Classic account of the philosophy and practice of manifest destiny.
WINDERS, RICHARD BRUCE. Mr. Polk’s Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War (1997). Explores the American army in the framework of contemporary American society—an example of the new military history.
BOYLE, SUSAN CALAFATE. Hispano Merchants and the Santa Fe Trade (1997). Shows that these Santa Fe traders established contacts from Chihuahua to Philadelphia and beyond.
BRACK, GENE M. Mexico Views Manifest Destiny, 1821–1846 (1975). Mexican thoughts about American expansionism.
CATHER, WILLA. Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927 and later editions). Hauntingly beautiful novel based on the life of the first American archbishop of New Mexico.
CHALFANT, WILLIAM Y. Dangerous Passage: The Santa Fe Trail and the Mexican War (1994). Narrative history of the trail with an emphasis on Indian conflicts.
DRUMM, STELLA M., EDITOR. Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico (1926, 1962). Susan Shelby Magoffin’s colorful description of life on the Santa Fe Trail and in northern Mexico in 1846 and 1847.
DUGGARD, MARTIN. The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 (2008).History of the war emphasizing lessons learned by future Civil War officers.
HYSLOP, STEPHEN G. Bound for Santa Fe: The Road to New Mexico and the American Conquest, 1806–1848 (2002). An economic and cultural history of the Santa Fe trade, exceptionally thorough and compelling.
SMITH, GEORGE WINSTON, AND CHARLES JUDAH, EDITORS. Chronicles of the Gringos (1968). Documentary history of the Mexican War based on eyewitness reports.
WEINBERG, ALBERT K. Manifest Destiny (1935). Classic account of the philosophy and practice of manifest destiny.
WINDERS, RICHARD BRUCE. Mr. Polk’s Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War (1997). Explores the American army in the framework of contemporary American society—an example of the new military history.