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Author Pinkerton, Gary L., 1954- author.

Title Trammel's Trace : the first road to Texas from the north / Gary L. Pinkerton
Edition First edition
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 281 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Red River Valley books ; number five
Red River Valley books ; no. 5.
Contents From somewhere to nowhere -- Through the wilds -- The Trammells of Kentucky and Tennessee -- 1800-1812: Boundaries under pressure -- 1813-1819: Couriers of the forest -- 1820-1826: Gone to Texas and back -- 1826-1836: A great movement of many nations -- 1836-1844: Another new nation for Texas -- 1845-1856: The old smuggler retires -- 1856-1880: The patriarch has passed
Summary Trammel's Trace tells the story of a borderlands smuggler and an important passageway into early Texas. Trammel's Trace, named for Nicholas Trammell, was the first route from the United States into the northern boundaries of Spanish Texas. From the Great Bend of the Red River it intersected with El Camino Real de los Tejas in Nacogdoches. By the early nineteenth century, Trammel's Trace was largely a smuggler's trail that delivered horses and contraband into the region. It was a microcosm of the migration, lawlessness, and conflict that defined the period. By the 1820s, as Mexico gained indepe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Trammell, Nicholas, 1780-1856.
SUBJECT Trammell, Nicholas, 1780-1856 fast
Subject Transportation / Navigation.
History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers.
Colonization
SUBJECT Trammel's Trace (Tex. and Ark.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2016001726
Texas -- History -- 19th century
Texas -- Colonization
Arkansas -- History -- 19th century
Subject Arkansas
Texas
United States -- Trammel's Trace
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016033459
ISBN 1623494699
9781623494698