About the Author

James H. Simpson, a first lieutenant during the 1849 survey, was promoted to a brigadier general and named chief engineer of the Interior Department.

Frank McNitt was a leading authority on southwestern history.

Reviews

Frank McNitt makes the coin of the past ring true…. He has given us the New Mexico-Arizona world as it looked on the eve of an era during which U.S. traders and government people were to become a daily factor in Navajo and Pueblo life."" - New Mexico Quarterly