'For the Hills of Santa Fe': The Texan Santa Fe Expedition of 1841 and the Southwest Market Economy

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dc.contributor.authorSaionz, Matthew K.en
dc.contributor.committeechairThorp, Daniel B.en
dc.contributor.committeememberEwing, E. Thomasen
dc.contributor.committeememberHidalgo, Dennis R.en
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:36:32Zen
dc.date.adate2011-05-17en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:36:32Zen
dc.date.issued2011-05-03en
dc.date.rdate2011-05-17en
dc.date.sdate2011-05-12en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the ill-fated Texan Santa Fe Expedition of 1841 to analyze the state of a lucrative market network in the Southwest. Cut off from Santa Fe, the hub of the network, Texas struggled economically as an independent nation. Commercially isolated and dealing with near- worthless paper money, Texans hoped that trade with the people of Santa Fe would divert wealth into their nation. To justify the expedition, Anglo-Texans used the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny and turned the trek into a liberation mission. Moreover, Texans desired an overland route to Santa Fe to attract merchants to their otherwise inactive ports. Texans invested much into the expedition both economically and culturally; however, the Texan Santa Fe Expedition ended in utter failure and convinced many Texans that annexation to the United States was the wiser path to take.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05122011-121933en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05122011-121933/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/32672en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartSaionz_MK_T_2011_v2.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectSanta Feen
dc.subjectSouthwesten
dc.subjectExpeditionen
dc.subjectMarketen
dc.subjectTexasen
dc.title'For the Hills of Santa Fe': The Texan Santa Fe Expedition of 1841 and the Southwest Market Economyen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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