Présentation de l'éditeur
Less than twenty years ago, a trufl Sc, which had been carried on for half a century under conditions unique in North A merica, came to an end, or, to speak more strictly, though the traffic continued, its conditions, which had been mediaeval, oriental and, for this century and continent, singular, became modern, American and commonplace. The Santa Fe trade resembled that of the caravans of Africa and Western Asia in that it traversed a desert, or what was then so-called the Great American Desert; it was also attended with dangers from the attacks of wild, marauding tribes. It differed from that, however, in the fact that there were no oases or inhabited stations on the long route, and in the contrast in the peoples and the conditions of life of the communities between which this traffic was conducted. At the eastern terminus was the rude, busy, enterprising, essentially modern and progressive life of our Western border, distinctively A merican, using that word, as we must so often, in default of an adjective denoting that which pertains to the United States. At the other end of the route, the social, industrial and political condition of the people was substantially unchanged since Spanish rule was established in Mexico by Cortes and his companions early in the sixteenth century, and with no prospect of a change for centuries to come. This remark applies, of course, to the conditions prevailing when the trade was begun and for many years afterward, but not so strictly to the last twenty-five years of its existence.
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