The History Files Archives: ep 025

This episode originally aired in August of 2015. Any promotional links are probably long expired.

Illustration from “Two Years Before the Mast”

From the original show notes: This week we bring you part 2 of our three-part series on the origins of the American West. Moving from Texas to New Mexico and the Southwest, we spend time on the Santa Fe trail and in the California hide trade.

Links:

• Christopher Columbus sets sail on 1st voyage, 1492.

• English forces attack the Spanish Armada, 1588.

• History of the US Income Tax (Business Reference Services, Library of Congress)

• Wild Bill Hickok

• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared M. Diamond 

• Commerce of the Prairies, by Josiah Gregg (1844-45)  Complete text.

• Flashman and the Redskins, George MacDonald Fraser (1983).

• Medicine on the Santa Fe Trail, by Thomas B. Hall (1987).

• Armada: 12 Days to Save England, (bbc.co.uk) presented by Dan Snow.

• Broadcloth and Britches: The Santa Fe Trade, Seymour V. Connor, Jimmy M. Skaggs

• Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov).

• Fort Union National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov).

• William Becknell

• Santa Fe Trail

• Josiah Gregg

• California hide trade

• Richard Henry Dana, Jr. and Two Years Before the Mast (complete text).