History of the Santa Fe Trail by Nicole Butler, Philnews Writer
Inside this Edition: Update on the Raton Fire June 16, 2011 • Issue 2 Burro Drive Ambulance Donated Maxwell Book Signing PHILPhilmontN Scout RanchEW • Cimarron, New MexicoS History of the Santa Fe Trail By Nicole Butler, PhilNews Writer Today the Santa Fe Trail rarely utilized. Here at Philmont, is dotted with small, often we know of the trail because of forgotten, towns, abandoned the multiple backcountry camps, businesses, relics of the Civil War, trails, and departments centered historic Spanish missions, Native around it, and for one of its most American remnants, and former famous landmarks, the Tooth of army garrisons. Marked by its Time, which marked two weeks changing terrain—from long, remaining for travelers headed barren desert expanses, to wide toward Santa Fe, N.M. open prairies, to the peaks of the While it may be a quiet setting Sangre de Cristo mountains— for hiking and Scouting activities the Santa Fe Trail is a historic today, the remnants of the Santa Fe landmark, often admired but trail used to be a bustling highway Public domain image SANTA FE TRAIL: Santa Fe Railroad (1922), A map of points of interest along the Santa Fe rail lines to California. Created by Rand McNally and Company of Chicago, Illinois. for nineteenth-century westward the number of travelers increased, travelers, passing through key the trail soon became home to landmarks and expanses like trappers, traders, Franciscan Diamond Spring, Buffalo Plains, missionaries, and adventurers such Pawnee Rock, the Arkansas River, as William Bent, Susan Magoffin, the Cimarron desert and the the first known woman to make the Sangre de Cristo mountains.
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