Here is another exceptional book if you ate interested in the Santa Fe trail.

https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Santa-Fe-Trade-1844-1847/dp/0803297726

And Webb, unlike Gregg, died of old age back east.

Another Classic read is

https://www.amazon.com/Wah-yah-Taos-Trail-Rancheros/dp/1429045523

this book like Gregg’s Commerce of the Prairie is an old standby!!!

While on Gregg, his last trip to Santa Fe he and his brother both had a pair of Patterson Colts and a Patterson revolving rifle, which gave the pair 36 consecutive shots!!! ( The revolving rifle were 8 shots apiece!).

Upon his return to St. Louis he doesn't mention the Pattersons again. He did loan his brother his two revolvers when they were about 60 miles out of Santa Fe as he went in early with two of the New Mexicans. Im sure they were sold for beaucoup gold. He does mention that he did carry a Cochran turret rifle on the way back that he finally managed to kill a buffalo with! I believe they were like .36-.40 calibre.

Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester

"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."

WS