wilderness-bridging

Updated: August 23, 2026

Up and down these land-waves, and across these ripples, the old Santa Fé Trail, the slender pathway of a wilderness-bridging commerce, led out toward the great Southwest a thousand weary miles to end at last, where the narrow thoroughfare reached the primitive hostelry at the corner of the plaza in the heart of the capital of a Spanish-Mexican demesne.

Margaret Hill McCarter - Vanguards of the Plains