NMLP P-035613 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09
The Prairie Traveler
Randolph B. Marcy · Harper & Brothers, published by authority of the War Department (New York) · 1859
Marcy, a career army officer who had explored the Red River country and escorted surveys and emigrant parties across the Southern Plains toward New Mexico (he blazed the 1849 Fort Smith-to-Santa-Fe route later known as the Marcy Trail), compiled this handbook of practical advice, equipment lists, and route itineraries that became the standard overland-trail guide of its era
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035613 for "The Prairie Traveler" by Randolph B. Marcy (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035613, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).