The Road to Santa Fe: The Journal and Diaries of George Champlin Sibley; and Others Pertaining to the Surveying and Marking of a Road from the Missouri Frontier to the Settlements of New MexiGeorge Champlin Sibley surveyed the Santa Fe Trail under the auspices of the United States government between 1825 and 1827. As he and two other federal commissioners worked their way down the trail, they treated with Indian tribes and mapped the road. Long out of print and now available again, this volume collects portions of the journals, diaries, reports, and letters that record the history of that expedition. Soon emerging as the survey leader,