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CORONADO CONFERENCE MARKING THE DRY ROUTE GILT-EDGED QUEST by Carllmmenschuh .,• '-.. THE recently-organized Wet/Dry CORONADO was agalri the center of Routes Chapter in central Kansas has attention in the heart ofQuivira. April undertaken a project to erect markers 18-20. almost 450 years after his on the two major routes of the Santa monumental exploratoryventure. The Fe Trail from near Larned to near Fort symposium. "On the Trail of Coro­ Dodge. Several ltmestone posts with nado." was held in Lyons. Kansas. bronze markers have been erected hosted by the Coronado QuMra Mu­ along the Dry Route. and this part of seum.sponsored by the newly-formed the project will be completed as funds Coronado Trail Association. and are raised for the markers. The chapter funded primarily by the Kansas Com­ will then mark the Wet Route. mittee for the Humanities. It was a remarkable success. with dozens of It is important to remember that the scholars in history. anthropology. and Santa Fe Trail was not a single road between and New Mexico but ethnohistory. joined by scores of afi­ HUTCHISON ON BOARD cionados. contributing to very spirited a network of trails that shifted over discussions. ttme and because of how wet or how DAVID Hutchison. Boise City. OK. dry the season might be. The separa­ Don Blakeslee. chairman of the de­ has been selected to serve on the SFTA tion of the main Trail into what were governing board as a director from partment of anthropology at Wichita known as the Wet and Dry routes oc­ State University. and Betty Romero. Oklahoma. replacing Bill Pitts who curred at several different places over was elected to the office of vice-presi~ director of the Coronado Quiv1ra Mu­ ttme. The chapter is marking the Dry seum. the prime movers in the found­ dent (replacing the resigning Tim Route from near the Ash Creek cross­ Zwlnk). Hutchison. president of the ing of the Coronado Trail Association. ing northeast ofLarned to a point east arranged this excellent conference. Ctmarron CutoffChapter. received one ofFort Dodge. with markers located at of the SFTA awards at the Santa Fe Prior to the formal meetings. a fieldtrip each end and along the way at such to the QUiviran sites in the vicinity of symposium for his work on the Trail. points as the ruts in the Lamed ceme­ His appointment is effective until the Lyons drew a large crowd that visited tery. the Pawnee Fork crossing. Boyd's ~ selection of directors in September. the serpent intaglio. excavated Ranch by Pawnee Fork. Rock Hollow. QUiviran house. petroglyphs. and the when he will be eligible for election to site where the Kansas State Historical (continUed on page 11) the board. Society plans to create the Museum of the QuMran Indians. Prof. Blakeslee launched the conference with his key­ note address.. The intent of the symposium was to seek the route of Coronado's 1540­ 1541 expediUon through Mexico. Ari­ zona. New Mexico. Texas. Oklahoma. and Kansas. and to determine what work still needs to be done. Although some points along the trail. such as the Zuni pueblos. Pecos pueblo. and the QuMran villages in present Kan­ sas are well documented. most of the route between these points is still open . to debate. Some sections. such as that along the north side of the Arkansas River west ofGreat Bend. Kansas. are fairly certain. Others. such as the seg­ ment in the section between the winter camp on the Rio Grande and Pecos pueblo. require additional fieldwork. Members of the Kinsley CO Chapter of the P.E.O., who funded this marker, were Manymore. especially those in Arizona . represented atthe site ofthe Big CoonCreekCrossingwhenthe marker was erected. and Texas. need more thorough analy­ From left, SFTA Wet/Dry Routes Chapter President Joanne VanCoevern, Celesta sis ofthe documents and fieldwork to Taylor, Rosemary Heinz, SusanRoenbaugh, NancyWeldenhelmer, Virginia Gleason, (continued on page 3) Arthur Sayler, David Clapsaddle, and Mllden Yeager. May 1991 1

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ment of his home. an area known as National Historic Site and the SantaFe JOY POOLE AMONG WHO'S MOlchGulch.", was filled with historic Trail Center), Pawnee Rock, and Great WHO OF AMERICAN WOMEN items of the Old West. Although Peter Bend (and the Cheyenne Bottoms Olch spent much of his adult life near Wildlife Area). JOY Poole, Farmington. NM, was re-, Washington, DC. he never visited the centlyselected to Who's Who ofAmeri­ Just as the Santa Fe Trail did. the eastern shore of Maryland, declaring can Women, partly in recognition of ADT leaves the Arkansas River near her etTorts in founding the Santa Fe that if he was going to travel it was here, passing through or near Ellin­ going to be to the West. His heart. that Trail Association. Joy. affectionately wood. Lyons. Hillsboro, Marion Lake, known among SFTA members as the finally failed him. was in the West, and Council Grove, Burlingame, and Over­ , MMother of the Santa Fe Trail Associa­ he will be greatly missed by many brook. The route then passes through friends and acquaintances throughout tion.Mis a member of the board of the more populous areas of Kansas. directors. She organized the first sym­ the land. through Lawrence and' the Johnson " posium at Trinidad in 1986. dUring County/Kansas City area. including some otT-road trail. In this area the which the Association (first called the F.E..R..N..B_E_S..S...IR..E.... Santa Fe Trail Council) was founded. I.._...... _I ADT Is on the route of both the Santa She has been active in the Association Fern Tuttle Bessire, Ulysses, Kan­ Fe and Oregon National Historic Trail. from the beginning. sas, succumbed on May 2. 1991, to the The ADT enters Missouri at Kansas Joy, who was administrator of the cancer that ravaged her during recent City, and heads to Independence, Baca/Bloom and Pioneer Museum in months. She was the former director of passing the National Frontier Trails Trinidad when the SFTA was organ­ the Grant County Museum in Ulysses Center and near other points of inter­ ized, has been the administrator/cu­ and was the president of the Wagon­ est In this town. Independence was the rator ofthe Farmington Museum since bed Spring Chapter ofSFTA. She grew Jumping otT point for many years for 1987. She has also served on the up within sight ofthe Trail and Wagon­ travelers headed for Santa Fe. Oregon, Santa Fe National Historic Trail Advi- bed Spring (Lower Cimarron Spring) California. and other points west. Near sory Council since it was formed in and was devoted to the history of the Independence the ADT follows the 1988. She is a member of the Moun­ Cimarron Route of the Trail. She led Santa Fe Trail and parallels the his­ tain Plains Museum Association and efforts to 1m prove access to and the toric route of Lewis and Clark. The the American Association of Muse­ interpretation of the Wagonbed Spring' hiking route passes through Levasy, ums. For leisure, she enjoys windsurf­ site. a project still under:way. Wellington, Lexington, Waverly, Mar­ ing. bicycling. traveling, and playing She worked to secure the listing of shall, Arrow Rock, and Boonville. keyboards in a Jazz ensemble. Wagonbed Springon the National Reg­ Much of the route across Missouri is ister of Historic Places and was spear­ on the Missouri River State Trail (also Congratulations to Joy for this out­ known as the Katy Trail), part of the standing honorI heading the etTort to obtain certifica­ tion of the site by the National Park rails to trails program. Service as part of the SFNHT. Mrs. According to the scouting team, the I...__P...E_TE_R_O_L_CH...' __I Bessire especially tried to interest ADT includes 785 miles in Colorado, young people in history. and she pre­ 570 in Kansas. and 335 in Missouri. SFTA member Peter D. Olch, Kens­ sented numerous programs to school The team is presently working the sec­ ington, Maryland, died April 25. 1991. children over the years. She provided tion east of the Mississippi River. As A physician who had conducted exten­ one- minute spots for the Ulysses radio this national hiking trail is completed sive research on frontier diseases and station about the history of the area. medical practices. Dr. Olch be re­ will The Trail has lost a great supporter. WAGON TRACKS is the official publicition membered by SFTA members for his and her passing is a tremendous loss of the Santa Fe Trail Association, a non-profit outstanding presentation at the to the chapter and SFTA as well as to organization incorporated under the laws of Hutchinson symposium in 1987. her fam ily and friends. the State ofColorado. Letters and articles are MBleeding, Purging. and Puking in the welcome, but they become the property of WT and may be edited or abridged at the editor's Southwestern Fur Trade and Along the discretion. All rights reserved. Inquiries can Santa Fe Trail, 1800-1850.Mand the ADT FOLLOWS SFT be directed to the appropriate addresses below. article from that presentation that was THE American Discovery Trail (a Annual subscriptions are obtained throngh published with the other papers from membership in the Association, whose dues coast-to-coast hiking trail). as noted in are fIXed per calendar year. Checks should be ' that conference (Adventure on the the last issue of WT, is designed to made payable to the Santa Fe Trail Associa­ Santa Fe TraU. pp. 11- 35, available follow a portion of the Santa Fe Trail. tion and sent to the secretary-treasurer. from the Kansas State Historical Soci­ A recent report from the ADT scouting Membership Categories ety). expedition summarizes the routing of Benefactor $1/000 , Patron $100/year Dr. Olch was an associate professor the trail from Denver to the Mississippi Institutional $2S/year of medical history at the Uniformed River, with the following information Family $IS/year Services University of the Health Sci­ relating to the SFT. IndiVidual $10/year Editor: Leo E. Oliva, RR I, Box 31, Wood­ ences at Bethesda, Maryland. He and Near La Junta. CO, the route picks ston, KS 67675 his wife, Mary. presented a number of ' up the Santa Fe Trail, passing near President: Joseph W. Snell, 5906 SW programs to various organizations on Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site. fuwick Lane, Topeka, KS 66614 the subject of frontier medical prob­ Las Animas. and Lamar. The ADT en­ Vice-PreSident: Bill Pitts, 7811 NE 10th lems and practices. Dr. Olch was ters Kansas near Coolidge, and paral­ #202, Midwest City, OK 73110 much fascinated with the American lels the Santa Fe Trail for the most part Secretary-Treasurer: Ruth Olson, Santa West and was a collector of western on unpaved country roads. From Fe Trail Center, RR 3, Larned, KS 67550 historical books as well as medical Coolidge the route goes to Syracuse. 1991 SymposIumCoordinator: Richard R. history volumes. He recently started a Kendall, Lakin, Garden City, Pier­ Forry, 205 S. 6th St., Arrow Rock, MO 65320 mail-order book business. The Owl ceville. Cimarron. Dodge City (home of PubIklty Coordinator: Michael E. Pitel, and the ButTalo. specialiZing in rare Boot Hill Museum). OtTerle, Kinsley, Tano Rd., Rt. 4, Box 240, Santa Fe, NM 87501 publications in those fields. The base- Garfield, Larned (home of Fort Larned

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and comes Into use. the Santa Fe Trail programs and ensure thatvarious gov­ oboy ofthe National Park Service. This and communities along the ADT will ernmental and private agencies mark occurred on the day of the annual benefit from the attention and In­ ,and Interpret the route and commemo­ celebration of "Back to Boggsville creased number of visitors. People all rate the significance of the expedition. Day." which featured gUided tours at along the route are invited to support At the business meeting of the new the site. Indian dances. and other en­ the ADT. a project of Backpacker association Don Blakeslee was elected tertainment. magazineand theAmerican HikingSo­ president and Betty Romero was Visitors are welcome at the historic ciety. sponsored by the Coleman Com­ elected secretary-treasurer. Discus­ community near Las Animas. For fur­ panyand Chevrolet. For additional in­ sion centered on the mission for the ther information. contact the Boggs­ formation. contact the ADT. 33 East organization. A newsletter Is being vUle Revitalization Committee. PO Box Minor St.. Emmaus. PA 18098 (215) planned. 68. Las Animas. CO 81054 (719) 384­ ·' 967-5171. Coordinators in each of the states 81 13. Their newsletter. BoggsvUle touched by the expedition will help Times. edited by Phil Petersen. Is an CORONADO CONFERENCE obtain new members. Margaret Harper informative combination of Boggsville history and reports on developments (continued from page 1) will serve in Texas and Richard Flint In New Mexico. Charles Polzer and Jim at the site. It Is sent to all members of test the hypotheses offered by various Officer agreed to find someone in Ari­ the Friends of Boggsville ($15.00 per scholars. zona. A volunteer is needed for Okla­ year for individuals and $25.00 for The National Park Service received homa. To join the Coronado Trail As­ families). some heated criticism. both for Its sociation. send dues ($10.00 for Indi­ , draft report on the proposed Coronado vidual. $15.00 for family) to Betty FRANKLIN OR BUST National Historic Trail and for Its ne­ Romero. Coronado Quivira Museum. glect of the Coronado story at existing 105 West Lyon. Lyons. KS 67554. ANNUAL MEETING facUities. While the NPS report now FRANKLIN or Bust. Inc.• elected the being reviewed In Washington. DC. SANTA FE TRAIL CENTER follOWing officers at its annual meeting recommends that the route not be des­ in March: President H. Denny Davis. Ignated part of the National Historic CERTIFIED BY NPS Vice-President John Shopland. Secre­ Trail system. the consensus of the THE Santa Fe Trail Center near tary Doris Markland. Treasurer Bill meeting was that the expedition was Lamed. Kansas, owned and operated Rudloff. and board members Steven far too Important to the history of by the Fort Lamed Historical Society. Rust. Opal Moser. and Herbert Nei­ America not to recognize It In some became the second site certified by the bruegge. The organization renewed its permanent fashion. As Father Charles National Park Service as part of the commitment to the erection of an en­ Polzer stated In his address. "The official Santa Fe National Historic Trail closed, manned visitor center at the Coronado expedition was a seminal in ceremonies at the Trail Center on eastern terminus ofthe Santa Fe Trail event in the development ofwho we are April 17. 1991. Dr. O. R. Cram. presi- in Old Franklin. MO. as Americans. both north and south of , dent ofthe Society. and David Gaines, Bill Rudloff reported on progress In the border." representing the NPS. signed the cer­ haVing the Missouri Division of Parks All presentations at the conference tification agreement. The Santa Fe clear and landscape at the Kingsbury were recorded on videotape. The need Trail Center. under the direction of Siding site. two blocks from the origi­ for careful research came up time after SFTA Sec-Treas Ruth Olson. is the nal courthouse square ofOld Franklin. time. The scholars In attendance made only such institution. devoted to col­ in time for an authentic Missouri fron­ Itclear that a new. critical edition ofall lecting and presenting the history of tier buffalo stew cookout. to be held as the pertinent documents Is essential the entire Santa Fe Trail. The Trail part of the SFTA symposium next fall. for the quest for Coronado's route. Center serves as the offiCial archives of Carl (Woody) Fleck reported that the Several questions of translation and the SFTA. and It hosts a biennial Trail Missouri Highway Dept. has promised meaning cropped up dUring the dis­ Rendezvous in the years when SFTA to raze an old alfalfa mill at the site cussions. In addition. fieldwork to does not have a symposium. prior to that event. check out the records will be reqUired Two historical markers have been along th~ entire route. Some plans BOGGSVILLE UPDATE erected at, the site and a third one. were made to continue the extensive AND NPS CERTIFICATION already there. has been cleaned and Investigations required. tuckpointed. The Missouri Dept. of The Herrington/Amarillo Area Foun­ RESTORATION work on the basic Highways and Transportation. the , dation will be sponsoring some field­ structure of the Boggs House is near­ Missouri Press Association. the Mis­ work in May 1991 in the panhandle of ing completion. and it is hoped that souri Dept. ofthe Daughters oftheWar Texas. Waldo and Mildred Wedel. their some of the finish work. including re­ of 1812, and the South Howard son Waldo. Jr.• Jack Hughes. and Mar­ construction of the fioors and porches County Historical Society were among garet Harper showed videotapes of a and replacing the trim work on the groups making these things happen. • house. will be done soon. preliminary reconnaissance they had FOB President H. Denny Davis. In conducted along the northwestern Archaelogical. work Is scheduled on his annual report. praised the work of edge of the Llano Estacado that re­ the Prowers House. and restoration the SFTA and called on FOB members vealed a possible access route along work will begin on that structure as tojoin. declaring"The SFTA Is the only Arroyo Puerto. Richard Flint reported soon as possible. Plans for summer national organization that gives two on the careful fieldwork he and his wife work atthesite Include the installation hoots about Franklin or the eastern Shirley have undertaken to locate the ofrestrooms at the interpretive center. terminus of the Trail." He also praised site of the bridge across the Pecos On April 27 Boggsville officially be­ the SFNHT Advisory Council and the River that Coronado's column erected' came a certified siteoftheSFNHT. with National Park Service for deleting of­ In the spring of 1541. the signing ofan agreement by Pioneer fensive references in the final draft of The Coronado Trail Association Historical Society of Bent County the management plan for the Historic plans to sponsor long-term research President Galen Moss and John Con- Trail.

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REENACTORS NEEDED FOR . BUFFALO SOLDIERS SFTDAYSAT SFT EDUCATIONAL VIDEO TO BE HONORED MARSHALL, MISSOURI FOF Productions, Washington, DC. is SENATOR Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS) THE annual Santa Fe Trail Days cele­ seeking reenactors to appear In an and 40 co-sponsors have introduced bration In Marshall, MO. is scheduled educational video on the Santa Fe legislation to honor the all-black army for August 1-4. 1991. The four-day Trail. The company is In production on regiments that served from 1866 until festival includes activities for all ages the 55-minute program to be marketed the army was Integrated In 1952. The and interests. Includingfree entertaln· by a major Chicago-based distributor bill will designate July 28. 1992, as ment, craft booths, a bicycle tour. an­ of educational media (see WT, vol. 5. Buffalo Soldiers Day. commemorating tique car show. parade. chuckwagon no. 1. for more details). the 126th anniversary of the creation dinner, and dance. For more informa­ .. The producers want to Interview and of the all-black Ninth and Tenth regi­ tion. callTomi Blackburn at(816) 886­ audition reenactors who specialize In ments of U.S. Cavalry. On that day. a 8372.' monument will be dedicated at Fort characters of the Trail. The program , will feature several dramatic mono­ Leavenworth, where the Buffalo Sol­ FORT HARKER FESTWAL .. diers were originally headquartered. logues and dialogues by selected char­ THE Fort Harker Days Festival at acters. The characters may be famous Called Buffalo Soldiers by the Indians because their hair and skin color were Kanopolis. Kansas. July 13-14. 1991. or obscure. Of special interest are will focus on the military life at the Manuel Alvarez. , Gio­ thought to be like that of the buffalo, these troops saw service throughout historic frontier post. 1864-1871. vanni Maria Augustlni, Gertrudes Bar­ Troops from Fort Harker. located on celo. William Becknell. Thomas Hart the American West. including time at posts along the Santa Fe Trail. the Smoky Hill Trail near the intersec­ Benton. The Bents. Kit Carson, tion of that route with military road Manuel Antonio Chaves, Mariano Jose The record of black troops on the from Fort Riley to the Santa Fe Trail. Chaves, Malcolm Conn. Matt Field, American frontier. both cavalry and sometimes served on the Santa Fe , John Hough, Seth Hays, infantry regiments. was admirable. Trail. Several ofthe post buildings still Stephen Watts Kearny, Archbishop The officers of the all-black regiments stand in Kanopolis. including the Lamy, Susan Shelby Magoffin, Alexan­ were white. The black enlisted men guardhouse which is now a museum. der Majors, Meredith Marmaduke. had the lowest desertion rate of any LiVing-history Individuals and groups Facundo Meigares. Zebulon Pike, Mar­ units.1n the army. and they conducted are Invited to participate In this cele­ ian Russell, Dr. John Sappington. Jed­ themselves well In garrison and on bration and everyone is Invited to at­ ediah Smith, Uncle Dick Wootton. and campaigns. Despite discrimination tend. For more Information contact the Native Americans (for example. Chey­ within and outside the military. the Fort Harker Days Festival Committee, ennes such as Owl Woman or Black African-American soldiers served their PO Box 242. Kanopolis. KS 67454 Kettle, etc.). nation faithfully. The Inspiration for (913) 472-4856. Please call or write Marilyn Larson or the Buffalo Soldiers monument came Rod Wolford. (202) 667-6048, FOF from General Colin Powell, now chair­ REMAINS OF CARSON Productions. 1832 Kenyon St. NW. man of the Joint chiefs of staff. when Washington.,DC 20010. he was stationed at Fort Leavenworth DAUGHTER MAY BE MOVED in the early 19808. THE youngest daughter of Kit and BICYCLE TREK-1991 Josepha Carson. Josephita Carson SFTDAYSAT WILLARD Chilcott. head ofthe Santa Squires. may soon find a final resting Fe Trail Bicycle Committee, has an­ TRINIDAD, COLORADO place with the Carson family at the nounced the schedule for the second TaOs cemetery. The daughterwas born FOR the fourth straight year the April 13. 1868, and her mother and annual trek. September 21-October Baca/Bloom complex will celebrate its 12, 1991. The ride. offiCially sanc­ father both died within a few weeks. ties to the historic Trail with its Santa . She died in 1892 and was apparently tioned by SFTA, is divided into four Fe Trail Days everit on Saturday. June segments: (1) Santa Fe to Trinidad, (2) first interred In the cemetery at Wagon 8, 1991. Held in conjunction with Mound. Later, In 1902. she was moved Trinidad to Dodge City. (3) Dodge City Trlnidad's annual Santa Fe Trall Fes­ to Council Grove. and (4) Council to the Masonic cemetery at Las Vegas. tival, this special day will feature tours New Mexico. . Grove to New Franklin. Participants of the Baca House (built by Trail mer­ may Join for the entire distance. ride chant John Hough in 1870). programs The body will be exhumed.when a one or more of the segments. or Join and demonstrations by living-history disinterment permit is issued by the and leave the ride at any point. SFTA interpreters, and self-gUided tours of state, and the remains can then be members will be assisting along the the Pioneer Museum. all free to the buried iri the second-generation plot way. helpingarrange accommodations public. near her parents in 'Taos. A relative must Initiate the process. and SFTA and providing historical information. Among guest interpreters will be rep­ Riders may choose from three plans member John M. Carson. Swink. Colo­ resentatives from Bent's Old Fort and rado. Kit Carson's great-grandson. has with varying fees: (l) riders using Sag­ Fort Union. Blacksmithing will be Wagon support and camping facilities, discussed this with other family mem­ demonstrated by Russ Young ofSanta bers and plans to request the neces­ (2) riders not using Sag-support but Fe. and programs on the Santa Fe using camping facilities, and (3) riders sary permit. The circumstances about Trade will be presented by members of Josephita Carson Squires's death and not using either Sag-support or camp­ The Opposition. a fur-trade-era reen­ ing facilities. The deadline for signing first two Interments remaln something actment group. Demonstrations on .of a mystery. but John Carson hopes on for this excitingventure is June 15, Hispanic cookingand adobe construc­ 1991-. For trek details and an applica­ to locate the records to determine what tion are also planned; For more infor­ happened. Hopefully he will share that tion form, contact Willard Chilcott, mation contact the Mark Gardner. PO 885 Camino Del Este. Santa Fe, NM information with Wagon Tracks when Box 472. Trinidad. CO 81082 (719) it is found. 87501. 846-7217.

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FORT LARNED GETS RUCKER AMBULANCE A rare Rucker Ambulance has been obtained by the Fort Lamed Old Guard for Fort Lamed National Historic Site. The Old Guard is a support group headed by SFTA President Joseph, Snell. The military vehicle. designed during the Civil War by Major General Daniel H. Rucker (who had served in • New Mexico and along the .santa Fe Trail in the 18508) while he was in charge of the quartermaster repair shops in Washington. DC. was ob­ tained from Dr. J. Joe Marsh. Jr.• Somerville. TN. who found it on a Ten­ nessee farm in 1967. It is believed to be the best preserved example of the Rucker Ambulance and one of only three known in the nation. The ambulance. appraised at $18.000. was obtained by a grant of $9.000 from the Jordaan Foundation ofLamed. KS. and the donation ofthe remainder by Dr. Marsh. Transporta­ tion of the vehicle to Fort Lamed was Rucker Style Ambulance also donated. The Rucker Ambulance was designed to transport the wounded from the field to hospitals as JOSIAH GREGG, SCIENTIST comfortably as possible. It could ac­ by H. Denny Davis commodate four patients on stretch­ [Davis is editor and publisher of the begins. "Howdid thisself-taught natu­ ers. The vehicle was equipped with Fayette (Howard County). Missouri. ralist of the early frontier become im­ folding seats and could transporteight newspaper. The Democrat-Leader. mortalized in the scientific names o'f or ten people when used as a carriage. president of Franklin or Bust. and a more than 25 southwestern plants?" In addition to carrying the sick and member of SFTA. This information ap­ The authors explain how Gregg col­ wounded. the ambulances were used peared in his newspaper on AprU 27, lected and sent cataloged bundles of to carry passengers and the mail. 1991. A list ofscientljlc names accom­ botanical specimens to George Engel­ Army officers and their families often panying the newspaper artiCle has mann. a noted physician and botanist traveled in them at military posts and been omitted here.] in St. Louis who later founded the from one duty-station to another. A scholarly journal has recognized' Missouri Botanical Gardens. The iden­ When more than 3.000suq)lus ambu­ tity of many of these plants was un­ lances were sold by the quartermaster the contributions of nineteenth-cen­ turyHoward Countian Josiah Gregg to known. and Engelmann honored department after the Civil War. many Gregg in namingsome ofthe new spe­ officers purchased one for personal American botany. "Josiah Gregg. Pio­ cies (for exampIe. Peniocereus greggU). use. They were used along the Santa neer Naturalist." is the title of an arti­ Fe Trail and at military posts in the cle in Cactus and Succulent Journal In a footnote the authors acknow­ region. The army adopted a newam­ (July-Aug. 1990) by two botanists. ledge the first publication of a list of bulance design in 1878 and the Larry W. Mitich and Guy B. Kyser. of plants named for Gregg. appeared in Rucker models were phased out. All the University of California at Davis. the Democrat-Leader of Nov. 28.1987. remaining horse-drawn ambulances Gregg spent his boyhood in Howard Dr. Dan Elliott of Central Methodist were sold by the army in the early County. first at Cooper's Fort dUring College and Cal Royall of Fayette 19308. the War of 1812. then at his father's helped organize and explain that list for publication. In addition to that list • farm east of present Glasgow. Gregg's • • When the army disposed of this par­ Mitich and Kyser reveal other plants ticular Rucker Ambulance has not Creek. which forms the southern bor­ der of Glasgow. was named for his were named for Gregg by botanists been determined. Dr. Marsh. a retired John Torrey and William Hemsley. optometrist. operated a sawmill on his father. Harmon Gregg. the first settler '. on those waters. Josiah Gregg later They point out that Gregg also became Tennessee farm' and became an ac­ a friend of German naturalist Freder­ complished woodworker. He carefully became a Santa Fe Trail trader. He is best remembered for his book. Com­ ick Adolph Wislizenus. who in his pub­ restored the ambulance. 1983-1989. A lications acknowledged Gregg's aid. few minor d~tails remain to be done. merce of the Prairies. published in and the ambulance needs to be 1844. It has been translated into sev­ The article reveals 'that Gregg also painted to comply with an army order eral languages and is still in print. sent back other specimens. such as in 1867. requiring that the ambu­ considered the classic work on the bird skins. He continued to do so until lances be painted solid yellow. "the early history of the Santa Fe Trail. he died on an exploring trip in Califor­ same color as the hospital flag." This With the revival of interest in the nia in 1850. The man who had done so rare item is now on display at Fort Trail. scholarlyinterest has focused on much to help identify western Ameri­ Lamed NHS as part of its interpretive Gregg's work in studying the native can plants. many of them edible. died program. plants of the Southwest. The article of starvation. '

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SEEKING A GRAVE ATJHE ROCK CORRAL , by Mable Sutton '

(Mable Sutton, Pueblo, Colorado, is a SFTA, my husband, Irv, and I have movements along the TraU years ago. media specialist for Fremont &hool been trail buffs for some time. I was District in Florence, Colorado. She hltrlgued to discover where John was There are still Burlends in Pike and her husband, Irving, are charter buried along the Santa Fe Trail. He County, illinois, and they were thrilled membersofSFTA and call themselves , was a soldier dUring the Mexican War, that we had located the area ofJohn's "trail buffs who spend the summers 1846-1848, so I sent off for his army death. Family stories about John Bur­ traveling along the old trails.") records. His records state that he lend tell that, while he was on his way home from the Mexican War, he was • JOHN BURLENO:-BURIED ALONG served asa private In Company K of the First Regiment of Newby's ill1nois stabbed to death by another soldier THE OLD SANTA FE TRAIL." As I was Infantry and that "hewaskUled in when John threw sand in his soup. browsing through a family history So ended John's life, a prank carried given to me by my parents, the above , affray on the march at Rock Corral NM • Aug 15/48." too far. He rests today along the old statement caught my eye and excite­ Santa Fe Trail. ment began to build in my veins.· , We made several Inquiries as to the whereabouts of the Rock Corral and John Burlend was a brother to my We wish to say "thank you" to David . discovered thatItwas the laststopping grandmother's grandmother, making Masterman and W. Y. Chalfant for place on the Trail before reaching their contributions to this search. We him by great-great-great-uncle. John Santa Fe, or the first one east if you was born in England and came to Pike extend a special "thanks" to Paul Ben­ were leaVing Santa Fe. Our letter pub­ trup who would not let us give up on County, illinois (my birthplace) with lished in Wagon Tracks requesting In­ his parents in 1831 when he was nine the search for the Rock Corral nor on formation onRock Corral turned up a the writing of this story. years old. The venturesome character, positive response. David S. Master­ of John Burlend is still a matter of man of Santa Fe responded that he {Editor's Note: Mable Sutton's tribute to Paul Bentrup is indicative of that family tradition. He was known as a had found the lost location of Rock rascal and a tease. Corral and had also located two possi­ man's indefatigable determination to John's mother, Rebecca, returned to ble gravesites in the area. This was see something through once he gets England to visit another son who had exciting news indeed. ' involved in it. In view of thefact that SFTA Ambassador Bentrup is a stayed behind. While there, she wrote Spurred on by Paul Bentrup, I wrote her story and published it as A True collector ofmonikers (including "Dirty W. Y. Chalfant, Hutchinson, Kansas, Sliirt," "Bodacious," "Fastest Tongue Picture ofEmigration. It is still in print concerning movements of Newby's Dli­ today: Rebecca and Edward Burlend, in the West," arid "Lamb Dyer"), it nois Volunteer Infantry. His reply con­ seems most proper that Bentrup's A True Picture of Emigration (Lincoln: firmed the facts that Newby's regiment University of Nebraska Press, 1987). obstinate and tenacious persistence had marched down the Santa Fe TraU (doggedness may be the proper term) In this book (page 27) she wrote in 1847 to replace troops whose enlist­ 'in never letting go and seeing a about an episode that happened to ments were about up. Newby's troops project completed should be oJflcially John on the ocean crossing: "While returned in August 1848, and Colonel recognized with the appropriate pacing upon the deck, I was almost Edward W. B. Newby and his staff left appellation of "Bulldog Bentrup." By, struck dumb to see my son, a fine Santa Fe on August 10. Chalfant the authority vested in me as editorof youth, but uncommonly daring, fast stated that "it was not uncommon for WT, I hereby declare that he be so asleep on the bowsprit. The least acci­ the companies to be strung out and dubbed, with all the rights, honors, dental movement and he would have not necessarilyleave on thesame day." and privileges appertaining thereto.] lost his equilibrium, and been precipi­ Our next move was to visit the Rock tated Into the water. My husband was 'Corral ar'ea. We made arrangements Just at hand and I pointed out the with David Masterman to show us the , GRAVE ROBBERS STEAL cause of my distress. He soon under­ , way. He told us about his research on HOLUSTER SKULLS stood me, and, hastened softly to­ the Rock Corral and showed us the " wards the lad, and rescued him from maps he had found and ·studied. We OVANDO J. Holllster, a Colorado that imminent perlllhto which his dar­ drove to the area, parked, and hiked newspaperman, was a member of the ing spirit had unwittingly led him." over the Santa Fe Trail. We saw the two First Colorado Regiment ofVolunteers during the Civil War. This regiment In another episode, Rebecca told of possible gravesites. • the time her husband was laid up with We then drove down a steep hillside' helped defeat the Confederate troops an inJUry. The wheat was ripe and into an arroyo to the site of Rock Cor­ at Glorieta Pass on the Santa Fe Trail needed to be harvested or Itwould be ral. The land is privately owned and a in March 1862. Hollister wrote a his· lost. She took John, then nine years house has been built right in the co~al tory of that unit, (Boldly They Rode), old, into the field. The two of them cut site. It is easy to see where the corral which remalns an importantsource on three acres ofwheat in intolerably hot could be made from the natural rock the Civil War in the Southwest. ' weather in a little more than a week. cliff and an outcropping of rocks a Early in March 1991 grave robbers The cut wheat was still in the field, so short distance away. By building a broke into a mausoleum at Riverside she got two strong rods and placed a couple of pole gates, the space would Cemetery In Denver and stole the number of sheaves near one end. She be used to corral animals. A short skulls ofHollister and his wife, Carrie. had her little son, John, take hold of distance down the arroyo, Masterman He died in 1892 and she In 1917. The the lighter end. In this manner they identified the site of the stage station thefts may be linked to cult activities gathered together the wheat ofthe en­ by spotting a large black locust tree which have been a problem in the Den­ tire three acres. which is not native to the area. We sat ver area. Police arrested two men who As charter:members of the Oregon­ in the warm sunshine and absorbed were charged with the theft, but the California Trails Association and the surroundings, visualizing the missing skulls were not recovered. '

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tribes (Cheyenne. Arapaho, Kiowa, and locations of these posts. and others) with the trappers and trad­ The Daughters of the American ers. It was the home of buffalo, bear, Revolution (DAR) have placed many elk. deer. antelope, turkeys. and other markers In the territory. Less than a animals. Many pioneer diaries tell of mile south of the museum. beside US the grass, wild grapes. chokecherries, Highway 50. Is one of their Santa Fe and the carpets of beautiful wild flow­ Trail markers. In the town ofLamar, at ers of the Big Timbers. the newly renovated Santa Fe Railroad When Charles and William Bentwere depot, Is the Madonna of the Trail planning their adobe trading post. the statue, one ofa series depicting a pio­ Cheyenne Chief Yellow Wolf insisted neer mother with two children on the • that It should be located at the Big trail. It Is the Colorado statue of a Timbers. According to David Laven­ series placed by the DAR In twelve der's Bent's Fort. Yellow Wolf spoke of states through which overland trails It as the favorite camping spot of the were followed by pioneers. Cheyenne, with "good shelter. good The site ofthis statue was selected In feed for ponies. and plenty offirewood. 1927 by a commIttee headed by Harry Buffalo were thick." The Bents did not Truman, then a Judge In MIssouri and take that advice. Yellow Wolf would chairman ofthe Old Trails Committee. BIG TIMBERS MUSEUM never have guessed that In less than When the statue In Lamar was dedi­ by Dixie Munro sixtyyears the white settlers who were cated In 1928. a survey was. made to to swarm over the Trail would have choose a pioneerwoman who had been [This is eighteenth in a series on obliterated this ancient grove and Its one of the area's first homesteaders. museums and historic sites along the abundant wild life. Mrs. Mary Sullivan Cain wasdeslg­ Trail. Dixie Munro is president of the Within a few miles ofthe museum are nated to be so honored at the dedica­ Prowers County Historical Society the sites of two major forts. In 1849, tion ceremony. In the.museum Is Mrs. which operates the Big Timbers when abandoned his Cain's wedding dress, displayed with Museum in Lamar, Colorado.} adobe trading .post (Bent's Old Fort) other mementos of the Cain family. BIG Timbers Museum takes its name and partially destroyed It, he headed A major displayat the museum Is the from the famous section of the Santa east to the Big Tim bers. There, be­ Indian artifacts. Many arrowhead ex­ Fe Trail on which It is located north of neath a bluff, he built three cabins In hibits are from the collection of Paul the Arkansas River at Lamar, Colo­ a U-shaped pattern with a palisade Steward, whose grandparents on both rado. The land Is part of Indian Claim across the open end and resumed his sides of his family were homesteaders 26. As a result ofthe negotiations after occupation-trading with the Indians. In the area before the town of Lamar the Sand Creek tragedy, President Later. in 1853, he built ofstone Bent's was established. His collection fea­ Ulysses Grant, on July 2, 1869. signed New Fort on a bluff above the present tures several major finds, including the deed of640 acres to JuliaGuerrier, Amity Dam at the extreme edge ofwhat Folsom, Clovis, and Yuma points, daughter of a Cheyenne. After her is now Prowers County. which are labeled as to age and loca­ death it went to her husband, Ed G. In 1860 the government built a stone tion ofthe find. One ofthe most recent Guerrier. In 1882 John W. Prowers, for fort one mile west of Bent's New Fort acquisitions Is an Indian headdress whom the countyIs named. purchased on the lower plain, closer to the river. worn, not by a Cheyenne warrior. but the entire 640 acres, which became This was Fort Wise, later named Fort by the Indians performing In Buffalo part of the Prowers ranch. Lyon, and now known as Old Fort Lyon Bill Cody's Wild West Show. Local citi­ In 1929 the American Telephone and (the post was later moved upstream to zens have been helpful In finding the Telegraph Company purchased one a new site), a major military post on right kind of popcorn and Job's-tears and a halfacres ofthe Prowers land on the Santa Fe Trail from which troops seedpods to repair the decorations on which was built the station to house went out to defend travelers and trad­ this qUite showy piece. I repeater equipment of the Denver­ ers. It was from this post that Colonel The museum possesses an extensive Kansas City long-distance telephone John M. Chlvington led troops to the collection of historic photographs of lines. In 1966 AT&T built elaborate infamous tragedy at Sand Creek In the region and has an art gallery that new underground facUlties ten miles November 1864. Because of "Qoding, features the work of local artists. south of Lamar and generously pre­ In 1868 Fort Lyon was moved twenty Among the displays are exhibits offire­ sented the vacated substantial brick • miles upriver to its present location, arms, cowboy gear, women's fashions, building to the Prowers County His­ the place where Kit Carson died In period rooms, children's toys, and the torical Society to establish a museum. 1868. story of the Fleagle robbery including The society is the fifth owner of this Since both Bent's New Fort and Old the escape car. Some of the items In • historic property. Fort Lyon were constructed of stone, the museum are harnesses, an ox This area Is the central section ofthe homesteaders In the next few years yoke, and a wagon odometer. Big Timbers, a famous grove of huge totally destroyed the walls to obtain The Big Timbers Museum, located at old cottonwood trees, manysix to eight the stone for their own construction 7515 US Highway50 at Lamar. Is open feet In diameter. It was the largest projects. Houses, barns, corrals. and from 1:30 to 4:30 every day ofthe year grove of trees between Council Grove, schoolhouses in the area were built of except , New Years Day, Kansas, and the mountains, extending stone from the two forts. The fort sites Thanksgiving, and . The approximately forty miles along the are on private property.. The owners museum Is located where visitors can Trail from just west of present Gran­ are cooperative In granting permission look over a portion of the historic Big ada to Rule Creek, site of the present for visitors to enter, but there is little Timbers. Admission Is free. For more John Martin Reservoir. to be seen but the outlines In the soil. Information about the museum and Big Timbers was the campsite and At the museum are aerial photographs directions to Santa Fe Trail sites In the meeting ground of the early Indian which more clearly show the outlines area, call (719) 336-2472.

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TABOCREEK by Virginia Lee Fisher

[Fisher. Arrow Rock. MO. is a member 1930s road construction employed oj the SFTA board ojdirectors and a most of the farmers and mules, plus Jrequent contributor to 'WT. She the slips and fresnoes ofthe area. This especially invites those attendirig the road building began highway "mod­ symposium in September to take time ernization" as hills were leveled. val­ to look at Taba Creek.] leys filled. and old corners cut across. The vertical plane ofthe Santa Fe Trail TRAVELERS following the Santa Fe • Trail in Missouri east ofLexington will ,changed more drastically than the horizontal as the modern highway be on the Dover Road. Settlers entered stayed close to the early-day Trail. A , land claims iri this area before Mis­ • souri became a state in 1821, and by glance at the road cuts and ruts of the the 1830s families had established present highway give an indication of homes and farms along the Trail. The the vertical changes along this route. amuence and southern traditions of In Trail days Tabo Creek was prob­ these settlers, are still evident in the ably a campsite. A stretch oflevelland • stately ante bellum homes which re­ runs along the east bank. Livestock main. Hicklin Hearthstone, built in could water at the creek. A hundred 1837 and located two miles east of years later Tabo retained its status as Lexington. is a National Historic Land­ a Mwatering hole." During the 19308 Tabo Creek, about 1930. mark. The rich loess soil ofthis rolling and 19408 Tabo Creek was well known country supported grain crops and as a place to pause and enjoy the livestock. Hemp was a major export the first county seat of Lillard (later companionship offriends, swim in the until after the Civil War, and hemp can Lafayette) County which extended creek, row a boat, and hold family and still be seen grOWing along the road­ from Saline County to the western community picnics. sides. boundary of Missouri. In 1823 the Lige Neer. who lived above the creek Tabo Creek, eight miles east of Lex- county seat was moved to Lexington. at the site of old Mt Vernon,' had 'ington, is a major Trail landmark on Washingtmi Irving visited Lafayette dreams of Tabo asa recreational area. the Dover Road. Today's travelers County, feasted on wild turkey breast He established a· campground and speed along high above thecreek and fried in butter, and remarked, MLafay­ built a few primitive cabins. Tabo was ette County is the garden spot of Mis­ can scarcely note its presence or know a muddy creek. To swim. one waded its role in history. On the Santa Fe souri,and Tabo grove is its strawberry throughsllmy mud to reach murky Trail, Tabo was the first major stream bed." waterdeep enough for swimming. Neer crossing ,west of the Missouri River To see Tabo Creek today, turn north moored three or four flat-bottomed where-Arrow Rock ferries provided a off US Highway 24 about one-fourth wooden row boats at the creek bank. crossing from north of Franklin. This mile east of the bridge over the creek Overhead tire swings were hung at the stretch of the Trail followed the path -and go west on the service road to the end of metal cables. The timid could known as the Osage Trace. creek bank. The creek appears too swing, the daring could hurl them- ' The Osage Trace avoided a creek small to impede travel, but in the deep selves into the creek, and the unsus­ crossing before reaching Tabo Creek loess soil of this area wagons mired pecting would be dumped when aca­ by following a narrow pass on the ridge down to the axles. It was too shallow ble gave way. between the Salt Fort River on ,the to swim and too deep to wade. Near .the shadow of the bridge Neer south and the Missouri River on the Adam Lightner, in 1821, paid two built a service station and a jukebox north. The MOrand Pass,M thirty miles dollars ,for a ferry liCense, the first of dance hall. His promotion of dancing east of Lexington, has been used for several to do business at Tabo Creek. was not appreciated by all the commu­ c~ntuiies, and it can be identified by It is likely that William Becknell nity elders. His first dance floor was , the line of cottonwoods, sycamores, crossed on Lightner's ferry on his trips built outdoors and warped when it and willows to the south as one drives to Santa Fe. Even after the first bridges rained. He built an addition behind his on the shelf above the railroad track were built and washed out, ferries service station and constructed an in­ and bottom hind ofthe Missouri River. served the crossing. In the gold rush door dance, floor. His nickel machine Ta~o Creek, however. had to be days of the late 18408, Tom Slusher had flashing lights and the latest Sina­ . ' crossed by the Osage Trace and the ran the ferry as his daughter Mollie sat tra, Crosby, and Dorsey records. The Santa Fe Trail.' _ . on the to'p of the hill and watched the local youngsters stumbled and then Tabo Creekwas known by the Indi­ covered wagons, and sometimes Indi­ became graceful dancers to "String of ans and early French explorers., The ans, heading west. By 1850 a more Pearls," "Dipsy Doodle," "Chattanooga name Tabo is attributed to the French, permanent bridge was built, but itwas Choo-Chao," and "Mood Indigo." a corruption of Terre Beau (beautiful burned by Union troops during the Lige Neer and his wife Julia were land). On the hill north of Tabo Cross­ Civil War. In 1867 Lewis Wernwagcon­ lenient with local youngsters but sub­ ing the settlement of Mt Vernon was structed a covered bridge, set on high tly reqUired decent behavior. During later establish_ed~ overlooking the Mis­ abutments above the creek. Wood sid­ World War IT they bridged the frenzy of souri River. Longbefore French voyag­ ing was later replaced by metal sheet­ wartime and the serene decency of ers traveled up the Missouri River. In­ ing, and the bridge stood firm until rural Missouri life. Before counselors dians camped on this hill. There are November 21, 1927, when raging wa­ , were invented, the Neers gave sympa­ ,two Indian mounds in the area. Mt ters and ice floes rose and lifted the thetic advice to the neighborhood Vernon was located on a New Madrid bridge from its foundation. you~g folks. . grant to Alexis Picard.' The town was . During the depression days of,the Tabo saw violence. A man named Ed

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, The deadline to register for this trip National Historic Trails System. Nar­ , , is July 22, 1991, but Interested parties done's history and maps of the Pony are encouraged to apply early because Express Trail will be published next ; the tour may flll to capacity before the year. For more information, write deadline. For more Information and to Western Trails Enterprises, PO Box enroll in MGreat Western Trails 1991: 3266. Carson City, NV 89702,' The Santa Fe Trail." contact the Office • • • • • of Continuing Education. SlUE, Box The New Mexico village ofTecolote on 1084. Edwardsville. IL 62026-1084 the Santa Fe Trail was featured in the (618) 692-3210. travel section of a recent Issue ofWad West, Including a summary history of the community. Richard and Marian Russell once operated a store at Te­ • colote. Visitors may still see where the --- Trail crossed Tecolote Creek. L::_' .'- '. Tabo Creek Bridge, 19208. • • • • • HOOF PRINTS An eight-page travel article by lived at the bridge and ran the filling -TRAIL TIDBITSs-- George Hendrix. MTraveling Through station. He was murdered. bludgeoned Kansas on the Santa Fe Trail," appears to death,by thieves who took the small The Friends ofArrowRock. under the in the June 1991 Issue of Midwest change from the day's business. By efficient direction of Kathy Borgman. Living. Among the ,featured sites,ate 1960 Liege Neer had died and the sta­ publish an informative and interesting Council Grove, Fort Larned. Santa Fe tion was closed. Tabo Creek flowed newsletter. They welcome annual Trail Center. and Dodge City. gently by. No gas was pumped. no beer memberships ($5.00 for individual: • • • • • sold. no jukebox music blared across $10.00 fo'r family). Send dues to Alan Hltz is the new archivist and the water. The old Trail was again Friends of Arrow Rock, PO Box 124. education director at the Santa Fe changed as more hills were leveled and Arrow Rock. MO 65320. Trail Center. Larned. Hltz Is a recent more valley fllled. The new bridge. still • • • • • graduate of Emporia State University. higher above the creek, rested on the SFTA Ambassador Ralph Hathaway He replaced Jon Zwink who left the site of the old covered bridge after de­ Trail Center to attend graduate school. struction of the original stone abut­ and his famous Trail ruts in central ments. Kansas have received much-deserved • • • • • attention recently, being featured in a Tabo Creek has been a social and The home ofSFTA board member Bill flne photograph In the National Geo­ Chalfant and his wife. Martha, waS hit historical crossroads for more than graphic article on the Santa Fe Trail In 300 years. The present highway, a rib­ by a tornado on March 26. The Chal­ March and in an article with photo­ fants, residents of the Willowbrook bon of concrete over the old Santa Fe graphs the same month about Trail, affords high-speed passage. Go­ community at Hutchinson. KS, were MRalph's Ruts" in Kansas Magazine. A not at home at the time and their loss Ing more slowly with a little imagina­ photographer from the Smithsonian tion, In the mind's eye one can visual­ was not as severe as some of their was there recently, and It Is possible neighbors. It was an experience they Ize Tom Slusher's ferry of the 1840s this site will receive further national and the lines of wagons stretching would just as soon have done without. exposure. Visitation at these excellent The rumor that Chalfant's library and back to Dover, the covered bridge of Trail remnants has already increased. the late 1800s and early 1900s where the research for his book on the Santa wagons and carriages clattered across • • • • • Fe Trail during the Mexican War were and children's ponies were intermina­ Fort Union National Monument at­ destroyed Is not true. bly balky, the muddy and dusty years tendance during the first quarter of • • • • • of constructing the first of several 1991 was 20 percent above the same The 1991 annual convention of the high-water bridges. the soclalinstltu­ period In 1990. Many visitors stop es­ Oregon-California Trails Association tlon of Tabo Creek dUring the 1930s pecially to view the excellent Trail ruts (OCTA) will be in Sacramento, CA, Au­ and 1940s, and the present new high­ there. gust 14-18. For more Information way along which the old historic • • • • • about tWs gatheringand tojoin OCTA, homes still stand. • Irv Summers, Inc., PO Box 6987, contact the association at PO Box Shawnee Mission, KS 66206, is offer­ 1019. Independence. MO 64051­ KIMBALL OFFERS ing several Santa Fe Trail tours to 0519. SFT STUDY TOUR groups of 20 or more people during • • • • · , • 1991. Cost of an eight-day bus trip Is The National Frontier Trails Center STANLEY B. Kimball, SFTA member $1,135 double occupancy or $1.317 In Independence opened an exhibition. and professor of history at Southern single occupancy. MPloneering on the Prairie with Laura lliinols University, EdwardsvUle, will Ingalls Wilder," on April 14. It will be direct a studytouroftheSanta Fe Trail • • • • • there until September 3. from St. Louis to Santa Fe, August SFTA member Joe Nardone, the 12·21. 1991. This is the seventh an­ authority on the history of the famous • • • • • nual MGreat Western TrailsM Pony Express, will leave St. Joseph, The Independence Pioneers Chapter travel/study program offered by the Missouri, on June 8, 1991. on horse­ DAR recently sponsored Its eighth an- , university. Participants may earn four back to follow the Pony Express Trail nual essay contest on MLIfe on the hours of credit. KIm ball is an experi­ to California. The main purpose of his Trails" for fourth graders at the thir­ ence travel leader who has conducted reride Is to collect 10.000signatures to teen elementaryschools In the district. summer study tours for many years. petition Congress to make the Pony This year there were 103 entries. Jane Express andCallfornlaTrail part ofthe Malllnson Is chairman of the project

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and reports "the teachers welcome this purchase this site on the Santa Fe fee charged for the noon meal. For contest as It gives a focal potitt to the Trail. more information'or to make reserva- , course of study of Missouri history • • • • • tlons contact the Trinidad. Historical that they get in the 4th grade." Society. PO Box 176. Trinidad. CO The Conservation Fund is conduct­ 81082 (719) 846-9139. • • • • '. ing a feasiblUty study for development The Friends of the National Frontier of a recreational and historical'green­ • • • • • Trails Center recently elected the fol­ way corridor connectingSanta Fe with The Raton Centennial Celebration of lOWing new officers: Paul Weston. Pecos National Historical Park. The 100 years of incorporated town gov­ president; Roy Keeland. vice-presi­ Fund is calling the model project the ernmentwill be held July 27-28. 1991. dent; Peggy Matthews. 'treasurer; "New Santa Fe Trail." The SFHNT Ad­ Events include a parade. free' noon JOanne Eakin. historian; James E. barbecue. summer run. bike tour. ex­ visory Council has endorsed this pro­ •. Budde. acquisitions and collections; ject and the U.S. Forest Service and hibits. games. and band concert. For Millie Nesbitt•.center development; private individuals are also supporting information about the celebration or Jerry Motsinger. programs and activi­ the study. directions to local Santa Fe Trail sites. ties; and C. H. Ohrvall. membership please contact the Raton Chamber & • • • • • • chairman. President Weston hopes to Economic Development Council. PO involve more school-age children by Santa Fe Trail picture postcards. Box 1211. Raton. NM 87740. phone sponsoring programs to help young showing'the big stone Trail marker in (505) 445-3689 or 1-800-638-6161. New Franklin. MO. with a description people learn about the significance of • • • • • the trails in America's history. of WUliam .Becknell's first successful tradingexpedition in 1821, are now on SFTA member Wayne Smith. ~ay­ • • • • • sale at the tourist information center mond. KS. was featured in the Febru­ Mary B. Gamble gave a program in New Franklin. Proceeds go to Frank­ ary 1991 issue ofKansas Farm Bureau "Coronado and His Journey to Kansas lin or Bust to help bring an enclosed. News. In addition to his farming inter­ in 1541" at the annual meeting of the manned interpretive center to theeast­ ests and work with Farm Bureau. Colorado Society Daughters of Colo­ ern terminus of the Trail at Kin~bury Smith emphasized his historical inter­ nial Wars in Denver. March 24. She Siding. ests, mentioning the Trail and SFTA. A exhibited a photograph by Leo Gamble • • • • • photograph of the DAR Trail marker of "Coronado's Cross" erected by the near his farm was included. Smith was Ford County (KS) Historical Society in Senator Robert Dole (R-KS) secured president ofthe Rice County Historical 1975 near Fort Dodge. near where it is an appropriation to plan a newvisitors' Society when the large addition was believed Coronado's expedition center at Fort Lamed National Historic built onto the Coronado Quivira Mu­ crossed the Arkansas River. Site. On a recent visit to the fort. Dole seum in Lyons. KS; pledged that the new visitors' center • • • • • • and museum will be funded and that • • • • • The CathoUc Diocese of Dodge City the historic Trail post, one of the best In April Wayne Muri. chief engineer will celebrate the 450th anniversary of preserved frontier forts in the nation. of the Missouri Highway Dept.. and the first'mass in what is now Kansas will be restored as nearly as possible Doug Crews. executive director of the at the Coronado Cross and Historical to its 1868 appearance. Interpretation Missouri Press Association. Visited the Park six miles east of Dodge City at at the site includes the history of the historical markers at Old Franklin. 4:00 p.m. on June 29. On that date l.iJ Trail. MO. Muri promised that his depart­ 1541 FatherJuan de PadUla. the priest ment would assist with refurbishing who accompanied Coronado. offered • • • • • the highway marker relating the his­ mass on the feast day ofSts. Peter and Congressman Dan Glickman (D-KS) tory of Franklin. which was damaged Paul. announced in April that he will intro­ while being moved from Highway 40 to • • • • • duce legislation to establish the Flint Kingsbury Siding. Crews said his as­ Hills Prairie National Monument near sociation wants to bury a time capsule The large cross west of Lyons. KS. Strong City. KS. on a historic ranch a . commemorating Father Padilla's mis­ in front ofthe Missourilntelilgencerand few miles south of the Santa Fe Trail. Boon's Lick Advertiser newspaper sionarywork and martyrdom. was red­ He plans to address areas oflocal con-· edicated on April 21. Father Padilla marker in connection with the 125th cern. including prohibition ofeminent anniversary of the association later returned to Kansas as a missionary in domain. payment in Ueu of taxes. and 1542 and was killed. presumably by this year. The lntelilgencer was estab­ protection of adjoining landowners' lished in 1819 and is an important the Quivirans in central Kansas. rights. Padilla was amongthe first Europeans source on the early history ofthe Trail. to travel a portion of what became. • • • • • • • • • • almost 300 years later. the Santa Fe Senator Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS) The Cimarron (New Mexico) Histori­ Trail. introduced legislation May 7 designed cal Society held its first annual field • • • • • to guide the preservation of eight his­ day at the Cimarron-Ponil crossing of toric frontier forts in Kansas. including the Santa Fe Trail (8.7 miles east of The photograph of the dinner bell those associated with the Santa Fe included with the National Geographic Cimarron on Highway 58) on May 11. Trail. The bill directs the secretary of 1991. This site. at Doggett's Corral. is article on the Santa Fe Trail. March the interior to determine how best to issue. is of the bell on the Rice-Tre­ where Colonel Stephen W. Keamyand preserve the forts and to communicate part of the camped monti Home in Raytown. MO. The their common role in the overall story Friends ofthe Rice-Tremonti Home re­ on August 10. 1846. of the Old West. cently elected 1991 officers: Leigh El­ • • • • • more. president; Jeff Phipps. vice­ • • • • • Ken Bums. who made the outstand­ president; Mildred Raymond. secre" The annual Trinidad Historical Soci­ ing series on the Civil War for pubUc tary; Laura Wilch. treasurer; and ety picnic is set for Saturday. July 27. television. is now workingon a similar Sylvia Mooney. corresponding secre­ 1991, on the Bloom House grounds. documentary to be called "The Old tary. Efforts continue to raise funds to The event is open to thepubUc. with a West." scheduled for release in 1993.

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He is researching old photos, paInt­ courthouse square. Stephanie Becker, MARKING THE DRY ROUTE ings, diaries, and letters to show the the NBC field producer for this feature, West as it really was. declared ofBoise City, Mthis Is the nic­ (continUed from page 1) • • • • • est town rve ever done a story in." and Big Coon Creek Crossing. SFTA Ambassador Paul MBulldog" • • • • • Arthur Sayler of rural Albert, KS, is Bentrup is affilcted with,the very pain- Marc Simmons recently received a providing the stone posts, each meas­ _ ful rheumatoid arthritis, but it has not copy of a letter via the Idaho Dept. of uring ten inches by sixteen inches by affected his enduring sense of humor. Commerce from an official with Ger-­ six feet long and weighing about 500 He admits that it hinders his ability to man Public Television. The letter, ad­ pounds. Funds for the bronze markers communicate since he cannot wave dressed to Mldaho USA," stated that a have come from a variety of sources, • his arms while talking. When Bonita documentary film on wagon trains was with small donations the norm. The Oliva, a beekeeper, informed Bentrup beingplanned and wanted information marker at Big Coon Creek Crossing, that bee stings are believed to help about Mthe Flint Hill Overland Wagon however, was funded entirely by the 55 ., prevent arthritis and offered some of Train which ... runs diagonally to the members of the CQ Chapter of the • her bees at no charge (even though ­ Santa Fe Trail." Somehow, someone in P.E.O. at Kinsley, KS. stinging is fatal to the bees), Bentrup Idaho knew enough to forward this to Wet/Dry Routes Chapter President promptly responded, MI want no part of Simmons, whosuggested thatGerman Joanne VanCoevem, whose brothers any sting operation." His character is Public Television contact Don Cress at farm an area where the Trail crosses, apparently every bit as sterlingas that Council Grove. Perhaps Cress can pro­ Is pleased with the progress being ofAmbassador MHonest Les" Vilda. vide a follow-up story. made on the project and thanks every­ • • • • • • • • • • one who has contributed funds for the markers. Dr. Clapsaddle, who is over­ MHonest Les" Vilda appears briefly The final resting place ofthe remains seeing the marking project, said that (very briefly) in the award-winning of the 31 Texas Confederate soldiers Min addition to those who have contrib­ movie, Dances With Wolves. Vilda has found In unmarked graves at Glorieta uted money, we owe a deep debt of become a celebrity in Nebraska, mak­ Battlefield four years ago is still being gratitude to those landowners who Ing personal appearances at movie debated. New Mexico has refused the have allowed us to place these mark­ houses and signing autographs. He request ofTexas to rebury them at the ers." reports that the video of the movie, state Confederate cemetery In Austin, when It is released, will Include the full and present plans are to reinter them The chapter conducted a tour of the four-hour feature from which one hour at the Glorieta Battlefield when It Dry Route on April 13 and plans a tour was deleted for shOWing In theaters. He comes under National Park Serviceju­ of the Wet Route on June 1. There are also mentions there Is talk ofa sequel. risdictlon. The remains ofa 6'4· soldier a number ofexampies offine Trail ruts were identified and taken by descen­ along these historic routes. For more • • • • • Information or to contribute to the The April 1991 Issue of Folio, pub­ dants for burial In a family plot. The remainder, one of which has been marking project, please contact Presi­ lished by Greg Franzwa's Patrice dentVanCoevern, 4773 N. Wasserman Press, has a recent photograph of Identified, are still stored by the Mu­ seum of New Mexico. Way, Salina, KS 67401 (913) 825­ Camp Nichols showing the site ofMar­ 8349 or Secretary Pam Wetzel, RR 1 Ian Russell's Mhome" where she and • • • • • Box 21, Offerle, KS 67563 (316) 659­ her husband lived during the short life Marian Meyer's biography, Mary 2305. of that Trail post in 1865. The Camp Donoho: New First Lady ofthe Santa Fe Nichols site Is on private land and is TraU, Is scheduled to be released by only open to visitors periodically and Ancient City Press of Santa Fe this by special arrangements. For informa­ summer. tion about when it may be seen, con­

tact the Boise City Chamber of Com­ r- .~ ..~~_ ..... "__ '"U",'_ -_••••• ":~"_."" •. _-~~- ..-.. w ~.,:;:-_._ •• --- ",- •••-- --,_.- , merce, Boise City, OK 73933. I. • • • • • Boise City, -Oklahoma, located near the historic Trail, was featured on the

NBC-TV Today Slww, May 7, 1991, r "--1 because it has the distinction ofbeing the only American city bombed by a U.S. B-17 airplane during World War n. On July 5, 1943, one plane on a night-bombing training run went off course and the crew, thinking the

lights around the courthouse square ;,.~<>(,o;" <.UtI" 4i.,,,,..~ .~ H.'Wt in Boise City Identified their target, i, ~!!~"; bombed the downtown area. One bomb hit a garage, but damage was minor and no one was hurt. The navi­ gator was reportedly court-martialled, .. but the rest of the crew eventually -, . Planting the 500-p0und markers I. not an went on to bomb Berlin. Boise Cityhas easy task. Here David Clapsaddle demon­ '.... . , invited the members of the crew to "...... \ strates his skills with a manual posthole dig­ return to the scene oftheir mistake (so ­ From lett, Arthur Sayler, Mllden Yeager, and ger as Arthur Sayler stands by with the far none has accepted), and a bomb David Clapsaddle with the' Big Coon Creek shovel. George Elmore prefers the easier will be placed as a monument on the Crossing Marker. method, an electric auger.

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. TRAIL TOPICS COMETS AND METEORS ON THE SANTA FE TRAIL by Marc Simmons by Marc Simmons IN choosing a Santa Fe Trail topic to research, most people select from one 5 TRAVELERS camping on western tlon of the world. Trail chronicler of three categories: (I) prominent peo­ trails had the clear night sky for a Josiah Gregg charted the progress of ple, (2) notable events, or (3) famous this comet, using a spy glass, sextant, landmarks. All oUhese provide worthy ceilingand that dark bowl could some­ times put on a spectacular display. and compass. He later published his subjects, but there are many other Comets and meteors, regarded In that mathematical observations In a border thing;> deserving of attention that do newspaper, theArkansas Intelllgencer. not fit Into these slots. day as wremarkable astronomical events," Inspired awe and fear among Therein, he noted that "the Ignorant rve made a listofoff-the-beaten-path people lodged upon the open prairie. and superstitious attributed the ex­ topics that researchers tend to over­ Those crossing the Santa Fe Trail not traordinary cold season we have had" look. I Intend It as a guide to help Infrequently mentioned such celestial to advent of the comet. And Gregg anyone looking for an exciting subject sighting;> In their diaries. added: wThe above class of people .;. for a WT article, student paper or talk, believe that the comet and the weather David Kellogg, camped on Cotton­ lecture, newspaper or magazine arti­ are signs 1 the fulfillment of Miller's cle, and so forth. wood Creek In eastern Kansas, for ex­ prophecy," Curiously, David Kellogg ampIe, wrote In hisJournal for Septem­ .also mentioned In hisTrallJournal that The best way to find Information Is to ber 26, 1858: wThe comet has been comb published Trail diaries and Jour­ Kiowas hemet In western Kansas very brilliant for the last two evening;>; thought that comets brought cold nals as well as contemporary newspa­ It stretches clear across the Western 7 weather In their wake. . pers found on microfilm at many local sky. ... The night watch passes libraries. Books like Gregg's Commerce quickly by as we gaze at the flaming The most memorable of all celestial oj the Prairies and Marian Russell's wonder In the heavens."l What he wit­ phenomena occurred on the night of .Land oj Enchantment, for exam pIe, nessed was DonatI's comet. seen all November 12, 1833, with the leonid contain briefreferences to manyofthe over the United States and described meteor shower, which lit up the ~ky In subjects Included on my list. as Wa brilliant light with ajrodlgioUS every corner of the country. The Here are the subjects rve collected, tail curved like a scimitar." American Journal ofScience described given In no particular order: ~Ineteenth It thus: wThe first appearance was that In the century not much offireworks ofthe most Imposinggran­ Buffalo Recipes was known about the origin and na­ Trail Song;> (old and new) deur, covering the entire vault of ture of comets. As In ages past, many Rattlesnakes heaven with myriads of fire-balls re­ Storms people superstitiously beUeved that sembllng skyrockets."9 Sixteen-year­ the heat they radiated affected the Trail Robbers & Hold-ups old Richard Smith Elliott (who would earth's temperature and caused Wagon Train Races inarch with General S. W. Kearny to changes In the climate. Others .Lore of the Jornada the conquest of Santa Fe In 1846) thought that comets were the source Prairie Fires viewed the spectacle while attending of epidemics. The most widely held Wolves an apple-butter party on a Missouri Stagecoach Meals belief was that they were warning;> or farm. wThousands of stars," he wrote, Cholera omens of 1m pending disasters, 3 Wwere apparently darting towards the Techniques for Crossing Rivers brought on by man's sln. . Comets earth and more follOWing. We were all During the era of the Santa Fe Trail badly sc~red. The world seemed Burled Treasure there were a number of prominent Trail Art (painting;> & sculpture) doomed."l comets and an astonishing meteor Folk Remedies used on the Trail Missourians ofIndependence, on the shower visible to western travelers. Children eastern end of the Santa Fe Trail, took Biela's comet, which returned every Ox Lore fright, thinking that the shootingstars seven years, appeared In 1825, four Games and Gambling were a protest from heaven for their years after Becknell opened the Trail. Steamboat Landing;> recent persecution ofMormons. At the The Wool Trade When It came again In 1832, many far end of the Trail InSanta Fe, Mexi­ Trail Geology citizens were terrified because It was can residents experienced panic as Mirages calculated to pass closer to earth than well. In between these to polr!ts, Wil­ Prairie Dog;> ever before. Halley's comet was ob­ liam Bent and other overland traders Religion on the Trail served In 1835. Upon Biela's return In watched the meteor display from the Wild Flowers 1839, It could not be observed since It adobe wall~l of the still unfinished Women's Dress passed near the sun. Its last sighting Bent's Fort.· Antelope Lore was In "1846, an Importantyear In Trail Maps of the Trail history, when an astronomer through Camped In the vicinity were South­ Famous Massacres his telescope saw the comet split in ern Cheyennes, the tribe from whence Mule Stories 4 came WIlUam's wife, Owl Woman. His Wagon Maintenance & Repair two; The appearance of comets and meteors were events widely reported In half-Cheyenne son, George, would Trail Photography later say: wThe great meteor shower Graves & Cemeteries the frontier press. Hard Liquor The great comet of 1843, with Its Nuns brilliant tall said to measure 123 mil­ Buffalo Soldiers lion miles In length, was the most star­ . Kiowa pictograph show­ Tarantulas . tling of all. First seen in the West on ing "Winter the star~ fell, Anyone who has read widely In the March 3 and visible even In daytime, It 1833-1834." literature of the Trail could easily add came streaming toward earth on what other subjects to my list. I have taken many feared was a collision course. one of my own entries, WComets," and The Rev. William Miller preached that written It up In the article that follows. It was a divine sign foretelling destruc-

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[Part i of this article. tracing. the stract mentioned several .streams in up around,the mouth· of Elk·Creek expedition to the crossing of the this area but did not name them. It since· prairie fires have. been.sup­ Arkansas River; appeared in the may be that the MaUet's guide left pressed obscured our.view of the hills February 1991 issue and is con­ them at the Arkansas. the southern in the position that Boone'slieutenant . cluded here.) edge of Pawnee territory. The streams recorded them. Nevertheless. we·were .. The crossing of the Arkansas River in question are likely to be Rattlesnake able to see that the trail led Boone and was near the mouth of Walnut Creek. Creek and the Nlnnescah River. his men to the mouth of that creek. At this point. in the vicinity of where Past the latterstream. the trail inter­ From there, the MaUets and their: Fort Zarah was later located. the route sected an east-west Indian trail that is . ·men headed south and west over fairly was intersected by the later wagon sometimes called the Black Dog. Os­ featureless country. The abstract of route from Missouri. A map of the vi~ age. or Sun City Trail (FigUre 6). It ran . this part of their journey mentioned cinity of the.fort•. drawn by a soldier from the Osage villages in southern that they saw streams almost every . and cartographer. Adolph Hunnius. .Kansas and northern Oklahoma west day. but it does not name any ofthem. shows the Indian trail runningslightly . to the Arkansas River at Oxford and This w~ the hardest part of the route from there along the .divide between to pin down, and the main problem east ofsouth past the GreatSaltMarsh i. (FigUre 5). the 1tIinnescah and Chikaskia Riv­ was that there were too many clues. , This appearsto be the same trail that ers. One branch of it may have con- The abstract mentioned a river up was shown on a 1602 map drawn by a . tinued west to strike the Arkansas which they traveled for five days. and again near present Kinsley. KS, but the only stream in the region that is rc:.ipJ' ~~a:::.o ;;:;i~:e~ti~ ~::~ . another branch. recorded on General long enough tont that description is Tracks. 3 (Nov. 1988): 4. shows the Land Office survey maps. headed the Cimarron. The abstract also stated south along Turkey Creek to ~he vicin- that they saw Spanish inscriptions on trail running from the Arkansas past . 1 the salt marsh to another one much ity of modern Sun City. KS. . rocks on the bank ofthis river the day I found this part ofthe trail bymatch­ they first encountered it. farther south.· The latter is probably .~ .. the Salt Flats of the Salt Fork of the ing the modern landscape with The problem here is that there'are Arkansas in northern Oklahoma. sketches made in 1843. The latter are sev~ral reported Spanish inscriptions The Hunnius map shows the trail found In the journal of an expedition on the banks of the Cimarron. One is running slightly east of south. Our of the United States Dragoons led by in western Oklahoma. and it reads· retracing of the route in 1989 showed Nathan Boone. grandson of Daniel MCoronatto." While this is not the way that it did so in order to avoid some of Boone (Figure 7).13 My sons and I that Francisco Vasquez de Coronado' the high sand dunes south of the Ar­ drove every available road south and spelled his title. some people have kansas River. In fact. the trail followed west ofSun City. and we could see the pointed out he that had an Italian in the flattest available route to the east- hiUs that had been depicted. but from his armywho might havespelled it that . em edge of the salt marsh. The ab- the wrong side. Trees t~at had grown way. The inscription. however. is in what looks like American schoolboy script and does not look anything like the well-documented Onate inscrip­ tion at El Moro in.New Mexico. After an extensive search without success, my sons and, I encountered someone on a back road who told us of a mile-long stretch of bluffs in an isolated spot near the Clark-Co­ manche county line in southern Kan­ sas. These bluffs show numerous traces of Indian use of a draw that leads through the bluffs from the di­ rection ofSun City. There were plenty of rocks there. but they were very soft. and any old Spanish inscriptions ap­ '. , parently eroded away. ) The Mallets went up the south bank • of the Cimarron for five days. At their rate oftravel. this would have put them in the vicinity of Lower Cimarron Spring (later Wagonbed Spring). south ofUlysses. KS. (The Cimarron Route of the Santa Fe Trail utilized the Lower Cimarron Spring.) There they found a Comanche village and camped a league away because the Comanches were not friendly. Guided by an Arikara who had been Figure 5. Adolph Hunnlus map of the Fortza';ah area. 1867. a captive among the Comanche (and a

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6. Maurice Garland Fulton:ed., DiBry& LsnersofJosiah write so much for the newsletter with­ Gregg, 2 vol&. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1941), 1:124. out an incorrect statement or mis­ 7. Simmons, On the Sants Fe Trai( 59. spelled word: none. of your readers could do as well. Keep up the good 8. Proceeding from the constellation Leo Major, the shower had been visible in 1799 and would come work. again in 1866. I especially enjoyed the article about 9. Quoted in Richard Smith Elfiotl, Notes Taken in Sixty the hilarious "Perils of Pauline and Years (St Louis: R P. Studley & Co., 1883),49. Jane." Feb. Issue. With ail our modern 10. Ibid. arrived in November and all the Indi­ technology. It seems they experienced 11. David Lavender, Benfs Fort (Garden City: Double­ more difficulties than the original trav­ ans thought the world was coming to day & Co., 1954), 140-141. elers on the Trail. May I suggest that an end. The dogs collected in bands 12. George E. Hyde, Life ofGeorge Bent, Written from 'and howled like wolves. the women his Leners (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, the "small red figure" which popped up and childre'n wailed. and the warriors 1968),51. and rode with them was the ghOst of '( mounted their war horses and rOde 13. Floyd C. Shoemaker, ed., Missouri-Day by Day, 2 an Indian shadowing them along the vols. (Columbia:' State Historical Society of Mis­ "12 SIT? I would enjoy reading more hu­ about•. singing their death songs. souri, 1942-1943), 2:350-351. Ever after, in Cheyenne history the morous articles llke'the one by Pauline event was referr,ed to as "The Night the Fowler. Stars Fell." David Lavender used that POST OFFICE OAK Dota C. Brown dramatic phrase as a chapter title in 77-330 California Dr. his classic Trail book. Bent's Fort. -LETTERS- Palm Desert. CA 92260-7808 Editor: One other odd incident associated Editor: with this 1833 shower of meteors took My paper on Joseph Murphy was place in central Missouri. near the I thank you for your editorial on the presented at the New Mexico Historical back page ofthe February 1991 Wagon head of the Santa Fe Trail. A group of Society meeting in April. I promised farmers had kidnapped a free black Tracks. Your discussion of the differ­ when you ran our "help wanted" re­ ence between the Santa Fe Trail and man. whom they planned to sell to a quest that I would advise you of re­ Missouri River slave.buyer for the sum Santa Fe National Historic Trail. in sponse. So far not one response has of $1200. The party with its captive such a positive manner. will be ofgreat been received. which demonstrates 'was at the landingwaitingfor a ~outh­ benefit in helping to clear up any mis­ the lack ofInformation on Joseph Mur­ bound steambOat when the downpour understandings about their meanings. phy. ofmeteors began. The woods and even' David M. Gaines W. E. Givens the river itself appeared to be on fire. Chief. Branch of Long Distance Trails ,Southwest Region NPS 3800 S. Decatur #108 The farmers concluded that judgment Las Vegas. NY 89103 day was at hand and they had been PO Box 728 Wagon Tracks would welcome an ar­ caught in the illegal business of "run­ Santa Fe. NM 87504-0728 ticle by you on Joseph Murphy and his ning South" a free' black. Promptly. Editor: they tore off his chains and sent him famous wagons. Thank you for the two copies of Editor on his way. In the light of a new day, Wagon Tracks (February 1991). con­ with the planetstill intact. the farmers taining Marc Simmons positive review Editor: began to.regret their loss of $1200. of my book. Poles in the 19th Century It was kind of you to send me a It is reported that the individual. Southwest. I learned a good deal about complimentary copy of Wagon Tracks. whom the meteor shower had liber­ the Santa Fe Trail and its significance Nov. 1988. I was favorably Impressed ated. fled southwestward on the Santa through years of research on "my with what I saw ofyour periodical and ' Fe Trail. married a Mexican woman. Poles." I have joined your great organi­ enclose my check for a fam ily member­ and eventuallybecame a wealthy man. zation. ship in SFTA. I would appreciate Infor­ Ifthat was .the case. he was probably Francis C. Kajencki mation about the price of a full set of the first black to travel the trail and it 3308 Nairn St. available back numbers. is unfortunate that his name has thus El Paso, TX 79925 Waldo R. Wedel far not come to light. 13 Editor: 350 Ponca Place #431 Boulder. CO 80303 There are probably many other un­ Thank you for correcting the error discovered stories about comets and about Wagon Mound In Wagon Tracks. For those woo may not know. Wedel meteors associated with trade and Your kind words made me feel much is archaeologist emeritus of the Smith­ travel on the Santa Fe Trail. It would better. We both made a boo-boo, how­ soniim Institution and has written ex­ pay interested readers to keep a look­ ever. misspelling Eggenhofer as Eg­ ,tensively on Great Plains archaeology. r, out for them. He and his wife. MUdred. are welcome I genhoffer. ' . Marie Belt additions to SFTA,membership. NOTES PO Box 9115 Editor La Jolla, CA 92037 Editor: , 1. Quoted in Marc Simmons, ed., On the Santa Fe Trail The recent article in NationalGeo­ (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1986),55. Editor: graphic shows an Aubry C~to(fand a 2. R. M. Devens, American Progress: Or the Great You are dolngagreatjob with Wagon Events ofthe Greatest Century (Topeka: Herbert S. Tracks. As a writer who finds errors in Fort Aubryon the Santa Fe Trail. Since Reed, 1890),305. my work which has been carefUlly my name is Aubry. I would Uketo know 3. 'Comets,' The Penny Magazine, Oct. 27,1832. proofread. I know how you must have more about these places. 4. Bernard DeVoto, The YearofDecision, 1846(Boston: felt when you realized the errors In the Ronald A. Aubry Houghton Mifflin Co., 1961),3-4. article about Wagon Mound and Fort 18006 78th St. KPS 5. Devens, American Progress, 300-301. There seem Longbranch. WA 98351 to have been two comets in 1843. The second, Union. You were entirely too hard on called Mauvais' comet, appeared later in the year. yourself In the February 1991 Issue. A reading list was sent. Niles Nationsl Register, Aug. 12, 1843. . You should rejoice in the fact that you Editor

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Figure 6. second portion of the Mallet route, Great Bend to santa Fe and return (1) salt Marsh, (2) Osage Trail, (3) Bluffs of the Cimarron, (4) Lower (Wagonbed) Spring, (5) Cimarron Route, (6) santa Fe Trail, (7) Wild Horse Lake, (8) Goff Creek, (9) Rabbit Ear Mountain, (10) Picuris, (11) santa Fe, (12) Pecos, (13) Antelope Hills, (14) Forks of the Arkansas..

slave among the Spanish before that), The trail is recorded on Land Office gUide probably diverged from later the they fled. The abstract said they went survey maps.15 We followed It over Cimarron Route and headed up Ocate ten leagues that day, in an effort to get high flat ground to a prominent bluff Creek to the crossing of the mountain away from the Comanches. I tried to on the bank of the river in the western where in this vicinity they met some trace out a route upstream along the end of the Oklahoma panhandle. friendly Indianswho carried a letterfor Cimarron, but It di~ not fit any of the Where the trail leaves the river, one them to Taos. In return. the governor details in the abstract. If one heads can see Rabbit Ear Mountain in north­ of Taos sent them some mutton and south, however, there is a perfect eastern New Mexico at a distance of31 some wheat bread. match. ' miles. The abstract ofthe journal says The Mallets, however, did notgo west South of Lower Cimarron Spring, that the Mallets first could see the to Taos butsouth along the flat ground there is a line of sand dunes which Spanish Mountains at a distance of to near the spot where Fort Union was provides the only landmarks on this over ten leagues (27.5 miles). On July later built. Just north ofthe fort, there part of the High Plains. At a distance 12, 1739, they camped at this moun­ is a shortcut to the Mora River. It runs of about ten leagues, one encounters tain. up Higgins Canyon and down another Wild Horse Lake, a playa lake around A map of the Maxwell Land Grant Into the region called La Cueva. From which evidence of Indian campsites that is dated 1889 shows. a trail run­ this spot, the little expedition was able has been found. Another day's travel ning west-southwest from the vicinity to follow the river upstream to the pass brings one to the lower part of Goff of Rabbit Ear Mountain. 16 More spe­ that leads to Picuris. This was one of Creek, a tributary of the Beaver River. cifically, It appears to run from Apache the major routes used by Indians Goff Creek was named by Hoodoo Spring, just south of the mountain. across the Sangre de Cristo Mountains " Brown, an early s~ttler In the vicinity With the permission ofBill Waters, the from the plains to the Rio Grande val­ of Dodge City, KS. 4 His buffalo hunt­ landowner, we checked Apache Can­ ley. Ing partner was an old-timer named yon for signs of a trail and were re­ At Picuris, the Mallets were wel­ J Goff. When they were camped on this warded with a campsite, Indian petro­ comed by the Indian governor. the pa­ creek, Brown Investigated an isolated glyphs, and bedrock mortars beside a dre, and Ktout Ie moooe." Mter resting hill, at the top ofwhich he found a pile spring. for a day, they were led along the river ofstones. In the rocks was a bundle of From this spot, the trail ran through road past La Canada and on to Santa sticks which Goff interpreted for him what is now empty country across Fe. Here they stayed over the winter as a message from one group of Indi­ Carizzo and Ute creeks, where the Mal­ before heading back home with word ans to another. They had left it in the lets encountered some more Co­ of this friendly town filled with people cairn much as later travelers on the manches. Near Point of Rocks, the in­ who craved French trade goods. Santa Fe Trail left letters in the Post dian trail merged with 'the later route In the spring of 1740, they headed Office Oak at Council Grove. of the Cimarron Route of the Santa Fe homeward along yet another Indian From the hill, the trail ran straight Trail and continued on to the rock trail which ran east from Pecos Pueblo west, cuttingoff the bend ofthe Beaver crossing of the Canadian River. to the Canadian River iri the vicinity of 17 River which loops south Into Texas. At this point the Mallets and their present Tucumcari, NM. After they

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• NOTES for Part 11

10. George P. Hammond and Agapito Ray. The Redis­ -- - - .. covery of New Mexico, 1580-1594 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press), 871-874. , 11. J. Rufus Gray, Pioneers, Saints BIld Sinners: Pren County from its Beginnings to 1900 (Pratt, KS: The Printing Press, 1968),24-25. 12. General land Office Survey Maps. Townships 27, 28, and 29 South, Range 15 West. Kansas Stale Historical Society Library, Topeka. Kansas. • 13. Copy of a Journal kept by Capt N. Boone, 14th May ;-- '43 to 31st July '43, Special Collections Division, Ablah Library, Wichita Stale Univ8lSiy...... j/;~~~~=,~_:-:_~.- 14. Harry E. Chrisman, Lost Trails of the Cimarron ------.- _ ..------(Denwr: Sage Books. 1961). 15. General land OffICe Survey Maps. Township 2 North, Ranges 8. 9, 10, and 11 East ofthe Cimarron Meridian, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City. Oklahoma. 16. Map of the Maxwell land Grant, Colfax and Mora .. - . Counties, New Mexico (Holyoke, Mass: Parsons Paper Co., 1889). 17. This was the route taken by Oiiate In 1601. It had Figure 7. Drawing of hills In the vicinity of present SUn City, Kansas, from the joumal of the become a well-defined cart road of the ciboleros expedition of Nathaniel Boone. when Josiah Gregg learned of it in 1839. Josiah Gregg, Commerce of.the Prairies (Norman: Univer­ had traveled downstream to the vicin­ context for Interpreting not only that sity of Oklahoma Press. 1954), 260. 18. Wheat, Mapping the Trans-Mississippi West. Map # Ity of the Antelope Hills. three of their trip but also those of most early trav­ 283. number decided to go back to lllinois elers in the region. Another Is that the 19. "Journal of two Expeditions from Boone's Lick to along ~the road of the Pawnees." This Mallet journey Is not Isolated from the Santa Fe," Missouri Intelligencer and Boon's Lick would have been the Indian trail later development of the Santa Fe Advertiser. April 22. 1823. shown on the Edwin James map ofthe Trail. Instead, the Mallet route Is best 20. Donald J. Blakeslee. Robert K. Blasing, and Hector Long expedition. 18 It shows a Pawnee thought ofas one ofthe variants ofthe F. Garcia. Along the Pawnee TraU: Cultura' Re­ source SUNey and Testing at Wilson Lake, Kansas trail running north and east from this Santa Fe Trail. eqUivalent to the Aubry (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Kansas City Dis­ spot to the Arkansas River near Great Route and the Leavenworth Branch. In trict), 132-138. Bend. fact. one of the few Identifiable land­ 21. George C. Sibley, "Extracts from the Journal of Major It is somethingofa mystery how they marks connected with William Beck­ Sibley," Chronides ofOklahoma, 5 (1927) 196-220. could have Identified this particular nell's first trip to Santa Fe is the Great trail without help. Perhaps their Arl­ Salt ~arsh southof the Arkansas 22. JamesOhio Pattie. The PersonalNarrative ofJames River. It is the same one that the Ohio Pattie (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, kara gUide was still with them, as they 1989). Mallets passed, so Becknell must have' had prom iSed him that they would 23. David J. Weber. The Taos Trappers (Norman: Uni­ obtain his freedom from the Spanish followed at least part oftheir route. The versity of Oklahoma Press. 1971). in return for guiding them to Santa Fe. wagon route that Becknell pioneered Whether or not this Is the case, the on his second return trip from Santa RULES OF EVIDENCE three men who left the main party Fe followed anotherset ofIndian trails. Stmmons sent a copy of the reached Illinois safely; Governor Bien­ Various portions of the Mallet route MARc continued in use for over a century. In follOWing ~Historlans' Rules of Evi­ ville mentioned the fact in his account dence," which may serve as a gUide to of the expedition. 1806, Zebulon Pike followed in their footsteps from a Pawnee village In anyone doing research. The list was The rest of the French party contin­ headed by the statement that ~the ued downstream on horseback for a southern Nebraska to the Arkansas River.20 George Sibley. led by Osage rules ofevidence constitute part ofthe while, but eventually they built two discipline of thought" and a quotation little bark canoes and floated down­ Indian gUides, followed it from central Nebraska to the Great Salt Flat in from D. H. Fischer: "Every historical stream. After traveling in this fashion 21 statement must be true to Its evi­ • for several days. they were delighted to Oklahoma In 1811. Fourteen years later, James Ohio Pattie took it south dence." The ten rules follow. find themselves at the forks of the 1. Assemble and consider as much Arkansas in eastern Oklahoma. The from the Pawnee villages to the Smoky Hill Trail, another of the tmportant evidence as possible. • fact that they recognized it indicates 22 • that at least one of them had been this indian trails in Kansas. In fact. the 2. Be alert to plausible alternatives, far up the Arkansas previously. route was still In heavy use in the 3. Judge and test the reliability of the 1830's, as a close reading of David evidence. Just downstream from the forks, ~ook, Weber's superb The Taos Trap­ 4. Exercise a cautious skepticism. they encountered fellow Frenchmen pers. will show.2 hunting bison. Theyjoined the hunt In 5. To be acceptable, the evidence must The Mallet journey was not an iso­ order to obtain provisions. and then In .be accessible to everyone. lated event. It was connected via in­ a borrowed boat they completed the dian trails with both earlier Spanish 6. Negative historical evidence is a con­ journey to the mouth of the Arkansas explorers (and of course the indians' tradiction in terms. It is no evidence at and down the Mississippi 'to New Or­ who preceded them) and 'Yiththe later all. leans. commercial route to Santa Fe. Their 7. Historical evidence, by definition, is The Mallet expedition clearly shows route was an important part of the always incomplete. We can never get that Indian trails provide an Important the whole true about the past. Thus,

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historical inquiry remains a constant , ,his graduate s,tudy at the University of ' ence for general readers. search for the closest approximation of Colorado. is at present an assistant', • • • • • the truth. [It involves working toward professor of history at Southwest the truth usingthe evidence ofprimary Texas State University. His book, one Gregory M. Franzwa, The Santa Fe data.) of the Development oj Western Re­ TraU Revisited, audiotape album. $29.95, plus $2.95 shipping. Order 8. Owing to inevitable gaps in the evi­ sources series. examines water use by agriculture. industry. and municipali­ from The Patrice Press. 1701 S. Eighth dence, opportunities for error are in­ St.. St. Louis. MO 63104. numerable, and none can hope to es­ ties in Colorado and Kansas. cape it. The study concentrates on repre- Gregory Franzwa, who delights in telling people where to go. has're­ 9. Mistakes of detail (even some in­ , sentative mutual irrigation compa­ nies. the cities ofPueblo and Colorado corded an album of audiotapes, The stances ofcarelessness or neglect) and Santa Fe TraU Revisited (same title as minor inaccuracies. though flaws, are Springs, and the CF&I Steel Company. The irrigation entities chosen to dem­ his book but not the same text) for still compatible with a work's being travelers following the historic route. acceptable on the whole. onstrate the differences in adequate and inadequate water supply are the These tapes offer an easy introduction 10. Evidenced truth is a necessary Bessemer Ditch system. the Rocky > to begirining Trail travelers and pro-' condition of acceptablUty. .Ford Ditch system, the Fort Lyon Ca­ vide encouragement to old-time buffs nal system, and irrigation systems seeking the hard-to-find sites. The CONVERSE OF THE around Garden City, Kansas. Also tapes are not intended to be'a substi­ PRAIRIES considered are valley-wide develop­ tute for guidebooks but a supplement. ments such as the Arkansas River Franzwa hopes his commentary and mUe-by-mile directions will enhance -BOOK NOTICES~- Compact and the John Martin Dam. It is a provocative study pointing to the the enjoyment of driving the TraU. Frank Milenski, Water, The Answer to successes and failures of the develop­ Quotations from diaries of nine­ a Desert's Prayer. Boone: Trails Pub­ ment of water only in terms of com- , teenth-century TraU travelers are in­ lishing Company. 1990. Pp. vi + 166. modity value of the stream. cluded. among them Susan Shelby mus., maps, conversion tables, index. Those who have enjoyed Simmons's Magoffin, Marian Russell, Lewis Gar­ Paper, $22.95, plus 4% tax in Colo­ ,Bayou !3alado and other books on rard. aild Matt Field. Tapes I and II give rado, plus $2.50 shipping. Order from Colorado history will welcome this vol­ directions from Franklin, MO. toSanta MUenski Agriculture Consulting Serv­ ume on the Upper Arkansas Valley Fe, NM, by way ofthe Cimarron Route. ice, 308 Columbine Ave., Swink, CO from Leadville to Pueblo Reservoir. In Tapes III and, IV cover the return trip 81077. her typical lively and informative style. via the Mountain Route. Iftravelers get James Earl Sherow, Watering the Val­ Simmons covers the geologic, Indian, tired of hearing Franzwa tell them ley, Development Along the High Plains Hispanic, and American past of the where to go, they can always turn him Arkansas River, 1870-1950. Lawrence: Arkansas River headwaters. Abun­ off for awhile. Listening to these tapes University Press of Kansas, 1990. Pp. dantly illustrated with historical and whUe driving is much safer than trying xiii + 222. mus., notes. glossary. se­ recent photographs, the book gives a to read a guidebook. Trail enthusiasts lected sources. index. Cloth, $29.95, spirited account of trappers, traders, may listen to these tapes in prepara­ plus $2.00 shipping. Order from Uni­ miners, ranchers, farmers, and rail­ tion for a trip and after a trip to recall versity Press of Kansas. 329 Carruth, road men. Advancements in educa­ the experience. as well as whUe follow- Lawrence, KS 66045.' tion. recreation, and water develop­ ing the Trail. ' • • • Virginia McConnell Simmons, The Up­ ment are also covered. , • • perArkansas. A Mountain River Valley. -Peyton O. Abbott West to Santa Fe. Vol. I: Overview,. Boulder: Pruett Publishing Co.• 1990. • • • • • videotape (VHS or BETA); Fort Collins: Pp. xii + 253. mus., suggested read­ Marc Simmons. When Six Guns Ruled: The Old Army Press, 1990. $25.00, ings, index. Paper. $21.95, plus $2.00 Outlaw Tales oj the Southwest. Santa plus $3.00 shipping. Order from The shipping. Order from Pruett Publish­ Fe: Ancient City Press, 1990. Pp. 140. Old Army Press, PO Box 2243, Fort ing Co.• 2928 Pearl St.• Boulder. CO Illus.• suggested readings. Cloth, Collins. CO 80522. 80301. $20.95; paper. $9.95; plus $2.00 ship­ This is the first in a planned series of Many SFTA members will be inter­ ping. Order from Ancient City Press, video programs on the Santa Fe Trail. ested in these three recent books on PO Box 5401, Santa Fe, NM 87502. presenting a good introduction to the the history of the Upper Arkansas Several of these twenty-seven topic. The photography, much of it on River Valley. What has happened to Vignettes have a Trail connection, and location along the route, is well done the region through which the Santa Fe the, entire collection is a fascinating and the script is informative. This tape Trail ran is part of the larger. ongoing look at outlaws and lawmen in New provides a general view of the geogra­ history ofwhich the TraU was onlyone Mexico from the Civil Waryears to "The phy. some of the key historical facts. factor. MUenski's history of water de­ Last Train Robbery" in 1938 when two and what travelers along the old TraU velopment on the river in Colorado is young drugstore cowboys from New may expect to see today. By itself this a story written by one of the men who York City held up the Southern Pacific 35-minute program is a cursory look lived it. A tale of irrigation in the Ar­ near Las Cruces. The spectrum in­ at a complex subject, but as the intro­ kansas Valley in general and specifi­ cludes Clay Allison, Billy the Kid, duction to a series it is successful. cally of the Catlin 'Canal. it is told in "Black Jack" Ketchum, Vicente SUva, Topics projected for other programs straightforward and lively prose. Filled the Apache Kid, Coal OU Johnnie, Kid in the series include forts associated with facts and punctuated with anec­ Barton. Madam Varnish of White with the Trail. historic structures, and dotes. it provides a good account of Oaks. James Addison Reavis. and oth­ Trail personalities. Michael Koury, di­ water operations in this arid section of ers. Like everything Simmons does, rector of Old Army Press, is com­ t~e American West from the vieWpoint this volume is carefully researched mended for undertaking this video se­ of a knowledgeable water user. and skillfully written, a model for pro­ ries. and everyone can look forward to Sherow, a native of,Kansas who did feSSionals and a pleasurable experi- the release of additional programs.

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BIKING & SKETCHING THE TRAIL, PART II by Catharine Stewart-Roache

. [Thejirstpartojthisjoumal appeared in the February 1991 issue. The following covers the bicycle tripfrom ~ Dodge City to New Franklin.] ¥f[ --_.. _..- ... _.#: .... , ~ -- Our day off in Dodge City was rainy and windy. We rented Ma wreck" and went out to the old fort which Is now a convalescent center. The buildings were interesting to draw and we saw the Coronado monument. U's hard to believe that he went tWs far east before he was convinced there were no golden cities on the plains. Was he the first slow learner? Or just terribly optimis­ --- tic? .­ c:=;:-.t'"- -. Ai de mil We started out early and felt .....nO? If • great; hopeful that we might have a ~ . quartering tail wind at least. WRONG. U was a morning of changing clothes, hanging on for dear life, wind in the • • ;~;, _ • .J...-.••• , •• '"0 'y ,,.' ... /0 "1, I..,.).'~ face, eighteen-wheel cattle trucks, no t , ... ' ,.(,' shoulders, and those elusive elevators. . The cattle trucks passing us from the other direction were hairy and scary. Mter fifteen miles of terror and cold I a nice dinner for us and we went to bed time tovisit the Adobe House Museum, stopped to collect my brains; several with visions of a tail wind dancing In sample some German food, and put a opted out at this point. I had some hot our heads. few lines on paper. I had no knowledge chocolate and talked with the truck Our dreams came true the next day. until then of the German-Russian drivers. MDoes It always blow like this?" With a twenty mph tail wind you can Mennonite presence in the state and I innocently asked. MM'am. this is Kan­ just about levitate in Kansas. A sweet their contributions to farming in this sas." As I left Spearville I noted the spot which lasts and lasts. Forty miles country. What hard workers: I defi­ sign, MCity ofWindmills." I believe it. If by mid-morning. Even stopping to nitely would not have wanted to be a we aU lived there, there would be no sketch I was into Lyons by 1: 15, plenty farm woman in the late 19th century need for so much oil dependent en­ of time to rest, goofoff, and explore the in their community. Friendly folks ergy. Highway construction added to town. But as good as the day was, it served us a sit down dinner at the the challenge ofthe day, but it actually had a shadow side. I came very close small Tabor College. gave us a break from oncoming trucks to being a casualty of the trip when I We checkerboarded our way to which produced bike shaking drafts. didn't see a stop sign in time to stop. I Council Grove on a perfectly tempera­ The afternoon was better, helped was sailing along in the morning sun; tured day with a nice cloud cover. Pat along by a delicious lunch at a place when I saw the sign in the middle of and I had gotten separated by a long called Jory's Pride, home-made every­ nowhere I qUickly looked right and left. train and to my surprise he caught up thing. I walked in and was overcome I thought I was clear. To my horror a to me just as I was stopping to nibble by good smells. Stacks of fresh bread, black truck came out of some shad­ on a Power Bar since there had been cookies, turnovers, pies, home-made ows. IfI had braked I would have skid­ no place to buy lunch. He offered me soups. etc. I had a Mveggie melt" with ded and hit the truck or flown off the some delicious goodies he had bought home grown bell peppers, tomatoes. road into the corn. I sped up and as I at a county fair in Lincolnville. It was mushrooms, onions.· and cheeses. got through the Intersection I heard a much appreciated feast. We contin­ What a change from chicken fried the truck screech and then looked ued on together and as we entered steaks topped with gravy. Six miles back to see itswerve. It had been close, Council Grove we noted the tempera­ outside of Kinsley I looked in my rear way too close a call. I know I took a few ture· on the sign at the Farmers and view mirror: there was the grain eleva­ years offof the driver's life, and maybe D·rovenjl Bank: 85 degrees. By the next tor firmly in place: looking fourteen my own. I wanted to talk to the driver day we would experience a drop ofover miles to Garfield was another. Now I and apologl.ze hut my momentum had 40 degrees. That's Kansas too. knew for sure. There is more than one taken me far and after he stopped he The cold and windy weather robbed In the state. drove on. He did meet up with some of us of a day planned for strolling I had very little time at Fort Larned our group and spoke of the incident. around the town and seeing many his­ but I did get a sketch of the Pawnee We were both very lucky. I could hear torical sites. in fact. the whole town is River. No time to see the Santa Fe Trail my mother saying somewhere in my a National Historic Monument. In the Center museum outside the town of brain. MCatherine, you overwork your morning it was too cold to sketch. My Lamed: it was closed. This was disap­ Guardian Angel." thoughts turned to indoor activities. pointing. What I found out more than Our ride the next day to Hillsboro .like washing the clothes. Mter I put once was that'in three weeks one still was pleasant; we had a bit ofhelp from them into the dryer I went looking for can't see all there is to see of Trail the wind. but not like the day before, a church service and ended up at a history. The chamber ofcommerce had and got into this Mennonite town in Methodist Church which met myspirl-

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of the motel let a group of us dry our ~---_ .• _~ clothes. This was a help, but It wasn't

:-__M __ - O enough of an incentive to convince us to ride the next day with even worse condition: rain, Wind, a starting tem­ perature-of39 degrees and a very com­ ----- • plicated 'routing around Kansas City. The van was a warmer place to try to figure out where togo. By the end of 'Pnr t)FFIC. Oft/( the day ali but three of the riders de- 1'1 I-.L..,._ IIN/S--'" cided to call It quits.' ' Our evening meal in Independence was served in the Bingham-Waggoner I estate. The mayor was there and the settingwas grand, indeed, but the fare 'I was sparse, especially for the three who had put up with all that difficult riding. Independence has been called ,the "beginningofthe trail," which isn't quite true. It was a major staging area once the trail was estabUshed. Hun­ -....._- . dreds of wagons were assembled and -- _.- stocked here and hundreds of thou­ ~. sands of animals and folks waited to --- begin their two-and-a-half-month .. ,- journey. Today there is a fine trail

..._.... " ....-.. museum which presents information on the Santa Fe and Oregon and Cali­ tual needs and gave me a few precious As we left town the next morning I fornia Trails. This and the mural ofthe moments with this community in a knew he was sitting in a classroom "Opening ofthe West" by Thomas Hart different context. After church there somewhere still wondering about fire­ Benton at the Truman Library make 'seems to be a tradition of Sunday eaters and Santa Fe Trail bikers, this a primary stop for trail aficiona­ brunch; services start at different dreaming dreams to take him beyond dos. I had seen reproductions of the times so that all the brunch seeking the town limits, buthopefully creating m ural, and even a television show church goers don't line up at the Hays a man who would someday return to about It, but there is nothing like see­ House atthesame time. We had towait that special Village on the edge of the ing It. It is brilliant Iil composition and to get in but the green beans were great plains. color. I was especially Impressed with worth the wait. They were a lifetime Even before Council Grove the Oat Benton's empathy for the pioneer best, followed by other tasty morsels. KanSas terrain had begun to roll as the woman at the apex of the piece. She is We ended up goingback In the evening Flint Hills gave us a welcomed break so "just worn out." The major protago­ for a cup of wild rice soup not soon to from the level terrain of the past two nists, frontiersmen and Indians; have be forgotten. weeks. What wasn't so welcomed was a lot ofenergy, but she has other con- What really made my day was the cold weather and rain. We were all _cerns: two children cling to her, she sketching in the somewhat warmer soaked through when we pulled Into clutches a wooden spoon. In her eye (45) afternoon, and talking to pass­ Baldwin City. Fortunately, the owners and posture we see another price ofthe ersby, especially a thirteen-year-old , boy named Daryl. He Impressed me, and I impressed him. A robust "Golly" greeted the infonna:tion that I had rid­ den my bike from Santa Fe. He was full to bursting 'wlth questions and Infor­ mation. He told me ofhis blkingadven­ tures, his b~k account, his plans for the future~ his family, and his efforts at magic shows for the kindergarten , kids. When he left me he found my ,I husband and upon finding out from him that I had done a bit of magic myself and knew how to eat' fIre he came r~clng back to my arilst's curb. Not even from my own children many years, ago have I been subjected to such pleading. "You've just go to teach me to eat fire. Please. Oh, please." Oh, how It would Impress his young audi­ ence. I hated to disappoint him but this was a secret I aimed to keep, I could just see his Mom chasing me all 62A'db 'Vl\ss (p.f""n~ the way back to New Mexico. Ilil'o. ~l F. ltlllL , 6LhI P 1lt-._ /II. s" .. 1t I J ~,. 71

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ing towards me I was ready to dis­ mount and forget all about Mno." but It { worked with him too. Arrow Rock was an important gath­

.J,' ering place in the early days of the ,. •" Trail. Today there are about eightyper­ ... " , " manent residents who tell you how to find the MBIg Spring" where hopeful traders met after crossing the Mis­ souri. But It was on the north side of the river. at Old Franklin In 1821 after Mexico won Its Independence from Spain. that William Becknell first left for Santa Fe. That Is why It gets to claim the title MBeginnlng of the TraU." A few short years later Old Franklin disappeared in the flooding of the un­ stable.river and the Mbeginning of the traU" began to move west. The begin­ ning of the trail also moved west with the coming of the railroad. which by the late 1870's had supplanted It com­ 6A111r1?/di 7Ur,­ pletely. Such Is progress. and the be­ .ARRI"; 12k/(. ginning of "raUs west." and more his­ IIIH~MR' tory waiting to be explored. Our journey ended. officially. at the site of Old Franklin. We Msigned in" with members of the local chamber of ..... J commerce and South Howard County " '1/,;, Historical Society. Some of us spent I.~ the rest of the day pedaling the rolling , hills to Boonesboro and Boone's Lick. and through "the bottoms" of Howard county visiting a few fort sites and graves. The day was topped off with a I.-~---- rousing Mwhole hog barbecue."a crowd -- - ., 1\\ ..... - """"~'II -. -. -. ~. ~ . of friendly folk. and a four-piece blue­ '...... " .. . ~. -, , grass band. "" ... ~ ...... ~ ...... - --- ­ ...... " .. Ilo .. ,. '" __ to· ...._ I paused then and now in memory. 'II ...... - I -- __ to absorb the moment. I was full ofthe '\ . ~ "t I,. goodness offood and fun. ofknowledge , , \ .. ~-­ and beauty. of the well being of my \ -'-'-- body and my bike. On thatOctoberday ------...... I was in touch with life andjustso very \ glad to be alive. k""~1! "r~ \ PIIME',/I,Jl, I .c III ..,'" ~It_ S'TZ 0,.

." ..I> "" • .,I/U." MO,

Mwtnning of the West." enjoyed fine hospitality by night. The Finally. Indian Summer was ours In many Lions' Clubs. senior centers. all Its glory. Fine weather was to be chambers of commerce. colleges. and ours for the last few days. The long historical societies will not be forgot­ daUy rides were over and a more lei­ ten; such enthusiasm and care. The \ surely pace provided time to explore attention of local bike shops was Im­ the Missouri counties lying just south pressive. I feel so lucky to have seen of the Missouri River. Now the histori­ this face of mid-America. t;RF7CN/N&o/4& "fb,~ cal markers were no longer limited to rve mentioned weather. food. and trails west. They recorded tragic mo­ ~ 511114:.1" "'4ID terrain, all major Items of Interest to ,..,'f. ._" _.. ments of the Civil War. Identified fort serious cyclists. But what of the dogs sites from the War of 1812. and along the Trail. you may ask. Yes, Vir­ eATIIH AIIl. S~wflR.r.... R~,.ut. L reminded us ofthose great explorers of ginia, there are dogs. Dogs to challenge ~lfwr4 ,., T~"'I. G,c.vcll- 'r~IIR.JF~ J"" U.S. rivers. Lewis and Clark. Cemetery you and your gears; once I had to markers told us of those who never sprint with all my might. but I found !¢b~., II,UII""". $I ~/"-.....£ AJIIA ,.,'0' finished. the TraU or the .wars. that a loud, sharp MNO" proved amaz­ We munched crisp apples by dayand Ingly effective, When I s~w a HUGE St. Bernard. larger than my bike. lumber-

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SFNHT PLAN UPDATE David M. Gaines , ,

[David M. Gaines is Chief, Branch oj mittee for cooperative agreements, and the National Register ofHistoric Places Long Distance TraUs, National Park to members Sylvia Mooney and Tim is movingalongthrough an agreement Service, Southwest Region.} Zwink for their efforts. Proposed with the New Mexico State Historic memorandums ofunderstanding with Preservation Office ,(SHPO) and its THESE have been very busy months the U.S. Forest Service have been sub­ subsequent contract with the Urbana for the Branch ofLong Distance Trails. mitted to the Denver and Albuquerque Group, Urbana, Illinois.' The other We 'have been moving forward with regional officers for their considera­ Trail SHPOs are cooperating and help­ plan implementation for the Santa Fe tion.. ' ing to prioritize the sites to be evalu­ National Historic Trail (SFNHT), begin­ ated within the limits of this contract.. ning to plan a study ofRoute 66, coor­ Governor Finney of Kansas and the dinating with the Denver Service Cen­ Kansas Dept. of Transportation have For the remainder ofthe year, we will ter on the Coronado Trail study, work­ generously agreed to help gain Federal continue to focus on these projects. We ing to complete the Masau Trail PIan, Highway Administration (FHWA) ap­ will also be out on the Trail starting completing a report about the Natchi­ proval ofthe propoSed auto tour route certification negotiations, as well as toches-Opelousas Road in Louisiana, signs. This may involve actual devel­ following up with site management finding out one day that the Trail of opment of a test methodology accept­ planning on some previous certifica­ Tears National Historic Trail is to be able to FHWA, and then conducting tions. Our efforts are also turning to administered by us, and addressing actual field' study to show that the the next fiscal year, and we are begin­ other matters. Here's what has been signs will not pose a safety hazard. ning to plan for necessary funding and happening on the SFNHT since our Only states can propose such tests. other necessary resources to make last report in November. Kansas is also seeking, at the same things happen on the ground. We will time, FHWA support for its scenic by­ be looking for private-sector assis­ Autograph Rock in Oklahoma, ways Signs. The SFT auto tour sign is tance to augment our activities. owned by Dan Sharp, was certified as of national interest now, as other fed­ Long-distance trails are on the as· the first official component of the SF­ eral trail managers planningnew trails NHT on January 24, 1991. Visitors cendancy today. Our busy agenda or considering improving old sign sys­ with, the Santa Fe and other trails, as must check in first with the Boise City tems are closely follOWing 'our pro­ Chamber ofCommerce, or, in,case it is well as grOwing trail programs in other gress. In 1987 the FHWA revised the NPS offices, confirms, this trend., Their closed, call Joan Walton at (405) 544­ manual on Uniform Traffic Control De­ 3245 or 544-2479. The second and collective immenseness is being more vices and withdrew the states' authori­ fully recognized and appreciated in third demonstration certification pro- , ty to approve logos. jects occurred at the Santa Fe Trail Congress and within the federal gov­ Center, Larned, Kansas, on April 17, We had another excellent SFNHT Ad­ ernment. The result will be a much and at Boggsville, Colorado, on April visory Council meeting in mid-Novem­ stronger National Trails System-bet­ 27. Since opening the doors to trail­ ber at La Junta, Colorado. Our last ter staffed, funded, and directed to wide certification in our January newsletter summarized the resolu­ achieving the objectives ofthe National newsletter, we have received more tions that were passed, and we appre­ Trails System Act. It Is important to than 35 requests for information from ciated the time, effort. and good ideas remember that this Is a cooperative landowners or site-managing agen-,' that members coatributed. We are enterprise. depending on thousands of cies. A Certification Guide is nowavail­ awaiting the secretary of the interior's people in the public and private sec­ able from our office: We will be busy selection ofadVisory council members tors. We hope that theSFNHT, with the follOWing up on certification requests to serve the next two-year term. The help of the members of SFTA, will be­ during the months ahead. next meeting will be sometime in No­ come and remain a preeminent model vember. in the system. ' The governor of New Mexico was the first to approve, last December, a The interpretive prospectus, a con­ memorandum of understanding (co­ ceptual guide to educational media de­ CAMP TALES operative agreement) with the National velopment (exhibits, publications, Park Service to help in Trail manage­ audiovisual material, etc.), is being -CHAPTER REPORTS ment. Kudos to Mike Pitel and the wrapped up by Harpers Ferry Center. State Tourism Dept. and the state's The Trail brochure should be printed ' Cimarron Cutoff specialcommittee. All other state and available in late June. The land-, William G. Buckles, a member ofthe agreements are moving along and we owner/visitor-use ethics gUide is now SFTA board ofdirectors and professor look forward to receiving governor-ap­ available. Fort Union National Monu­ of anthropology at the University of •f proved agr:eements soon. Many thanks mentSuperintendent Harry Myers has Southern Colorado, Pueblo. was guest to Kansas Governor Joan Finney for agreed to help us prepare the Trail speaker at the April 15 meeting in originating a SFNHT proclamation, preservation guide in cooperation with Springfield, CO. A buffet Mexican din­ proposed to be signed by all five Trail­ the SFTA. This, should be available ner preceded the meeting attended by state governors, pledging their mutual soon. 34 members. cooperation to support the objects of We received':funds to prepare an in­ Buckles said that he has a broader the SFNHT. The memorandum of un­ troductory slide/Video program, and it conception of the Santa Fe Trail, not a derstanding with the SFTA should be should be available by the end of the single trail but many branches. He approved by the time you read this. We calendar year. The Hispanic role study would like to Include a trail following are very excited about the long-term under contract with Susan Calafate the Arkansas River to Pueblo and be­ relationship we foresee between our Boyle continues (she will be a speaker yond,nqt just one crossing the river two organizations and all the good that at the September SFTA Symposium). near Bent's Old Fort and on south­ will befall the Trail because of it. The historic context study to help west. He also mentioned his work in Thanks to Joy Poole, chair, SFTA com- nominate Trail sites and segments to the, summer of 1989 on the Aubry

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Route on Comanche National Grass­ When the Santa Fe Trail opened In .June 9 to 15. from Gardner. Kansas, . land In Baca County. Heshowed slides the 18208. these traders became key to Council Grove. For information of scenes and maps of the trail. players in the exchange of commodi­ write Trail Ride, 130 Main; Council President David Hutchison, who was ties with the United States.' Bus­ Grove. KS 66846. recently appointed to membership on tamante pointed out that the great Following reports and discussion on the SITA board of directors. presided books and literature written about the the progress ofrestoration ofthe stone at the meeting. Charlie Richmond, dis­ Trail tended to ignore the important barn on the Trail one mile east of trict ranger with th~ National Forest roles played bythe Mexicans and gave Council Grove. the directors voted to Service, Springfield, reported that the the impression that only Anglo-Arneri- transfer the responsibility for restora- SIT Is being marked .with limestone . cans were moving goods along the . tion to the newly-formed Committee postrock in Otero County on Co­ Trail. He explained that Mexicans par­ for Revitalization of Fremont Park. manche National Grassland. There are . ticlpated in an equal and sometimes This committee Includes three chapter 12 miles of the trail In scattered seg­ greater share of the traffic as traders. members plus six other persons from ments. The Aubry Route in Baca' Wagonbed Spring Morris County committed to develop­ County will also have markers, as well ing the whole area into a park. This .Chapter members met on April 11in group will seek the $200,000 needed as the Granada-Fort Union Military Ulysses to plan the rededication ofthe to complete the project. Road. He estimates it will take five historic site at Lower Spring and to years to complete the project. elect officers. Ron French presided at There is also an effort being made to Edgar White. Elkhart. reported that the meeting In the absence of Fern obtain the stone schoolhouse built In the new addition to the muSeum In Bessire, chapter organizing president, 1870 at Wilmington. This Is the only Elkhart is nearly com pleted. Joan who had resigned due to health rea­ building left beSides. a church In this Wells, Boise City. announced that a sons. Everyone was greatly saddened Trail town that existed from the 18508 fall tour ofthe Santa Fe Trail In Cimar­ a few weeks later to learn that Fern to about 1900. ron County· will take place but the Bessire passed away on May 2. She . 'Guests at the meeting included Ron dates are not set. D. Ray Blakeley, . was the prime mover in the achieve­ Parks, curator at the Kaw Indian Mis­ Clayton. reported that Union County ments of the chapter and will be sorely sion In Council Grove; Floyd Metzger, has received a grant to publish Its missed. chairman of the Revitalization Com­ brochure. He also noted that a three­ The rededication ceremony will be on mttee; and Howard Servis of Wichita, mile segment ofthe Cimarron Route Is July 13. 1991, the 30th anniversary of who is planning to organize a new on Kiowa National Grassland and will the designation ofWagonbed Springas SFTA chapter. The next meetingwill be be marked with signs.. Steve Hayward, a National Historical Landmark by the July 9. Elkhart, brochure chaiman for the National Park Service. The celebration four counties. handed out samples of End of the Trail comes at the completion of renovation No report. the NPS logo, which may be used by of the historic site. The Grant County obtaining permission from David M. commissioners approved the grading Corazon de los Caminos Gaines, NPS, Santa Fe. Blakely, secre­ ofan access road and the return ofthe tary, announced that the next quar­ The schedule of meetings for the DAR marker and the NPS official summer of 1991 follows. Information terly meeting will be Monday, July 29, maker to a point near the original lo­ in Clayton at 7 p.m.• with dinner at the can be obtained by calling the number cation. A pipe fence was erected indicated for each meeting place. Eklund Hotel. around the site and a cattle guard Other meeting times will be at 2:00 placed to keep livestock out. A well was Texas Panhandle p.m. on the third Sunday ofNovember, drilled and a solar pump installed so January (1992), and March. . On Saturday, April 13, Dr. Adrian that water again could well-up In the May 19. 2:00 p.m., Wagon Mound, Bustamante, chairman ofthe arts and replacement wagonbed. Fern Bessire. Town Hall (505) 666-2262. sciences' division ofSanta Fe Commu­ was the prime mover in the renovation, nity College, presented a lecture on with Ed Lewis directing the projects. June 22, all day. Fort Union National Monument (505) 425-8025. MThe Hispanic Influence on the Santa An old-fashioned picnic on the· Fe Trail" at the Arnarillo Texas Library. grounds at 6:00 p.m. will start the July 21,2:00 p.m., Lorna Parda (505) 387-2491. . The Texas Panhandle Chapter co­ celebration at the site located offHIgh­ sponsored this program along with way K-25 south ofUlysses. Directional August 18.2:00 p.m.• Springer (505) four other groups: Catholic Historical signs both north and south of the en­ 483-5926. Society. Independent Scholars Net­ trance will indicate where to tum off September 15.2:00 p.m.• Las Vegas work, Panhandle Archaeological Soci­ between Ulysses and Hugoton. (505) 454-0383. ety, and the Arnarlllo Hispanic Cham­ The officers elected for the coming Wet/Dry Routes ber of Commerce. His program was year are President Edward Dowell. V-P well received and much appreciated. The springmeetingwas held on April Ed Lewis. Secretary Marjorie Pers­ 13 and was a tour of the Dry Route of Bustamante talked about the nega­ inger, Treasurer Karla French. 'Pro­ the Trail. Stops on the tour included tive images of the Hispanic traders gram Chairman Maryruth Greenwood. existing ruts as well as the Pawnee that have been depicted so often by the and Reporter Mary B. Gamble. For the Fork Crossing. Boyd's Ranche site, Hollywood rum industry as unkempt, program. Ron French presented a Rock Hollow, Big Coon Creek Cross­ no-account Comancheros. He ex­ video of MCastle on the Plains." the ing, Dinner Station, Arroyo Blanco, plained that the Mexican traders were story ofBent's Old Fort near La Junta. Little Coon Creek Crossing. and the mostly farmers from northern New CO. Mexico who traded with Plains indi­ western terminus of the Wet and Dry ans. These Mexican farmers and Heart of the Flint Hills routes near Fort Dodge. A lunch stop ranchers developed into a sophisti­ The directors and Trail ride commit­ was made at the Offerle Cafe. cated trading class who dominated tee of the chapter met April 9 In Coun­ Participants were informed about trading activities between Santa Fe cil Grove. Final preparations were upcoming Trail-related events. A spe­ and the Mexican interior. made for the 1991 Santa Fe Trail Ride. cial announcement was made about

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the mural that is being p8.inted on the Army's PmoIi Canyon Maneuver Site ied. Annual dues were set at $10.00. A east side ofthe Offerle Cafe. The mural and heretofore has not been open to nominating committee was seleCted: wUl include various historic events the public. Negotiations are currently Mike Duncan. Polly Fowler. Jane Mal­ that are significant to the area. includ­ underway between the Army and the linson. Roger Slusher. and Mike ing the Santa Fe Trail. It is being National Forest Service to transfer Tatham. painted by Dennis Burghart. Dona­ ownership ofthe property to the Forest The election of officers and further tions are still needed and can be sent Service. We are working with both the organizational work wUI be done at a to Rachel Leith. Offerle. KS 67563. Army and the Forest Service on ar­ chapter meetingon May 16. 7:00 p.m.• Progress has been made an marking rangements and permission for the at the National Frontier Trails Center. the Dry Route. with five markers in field trip. , 318 W. Pacific. Independence. A name place. Donations are stUl needed to We anticipate gathering in Trinidad will be selected for the new chapter at complete the project and may be sent early on the morning of the 17th. con­ this meeting. Everyone in the region is to the chapter secretary-treasurer. voy to an entrance designated by our invited to join this chapter. Pam Wetzel. RR 1 Box 21. Offerle. KS hosts (Army and/or Forest Service). 67563. car-pool into the canyon by 4-wheel COUNCIL TROVE . The next meeting wUl be held on drive only. lunch on the river bank at Saturday. June 1. and will be a tour of the trailway site. and return to the -DOCUMENTS the Wet Route. The tour will begin at canyon rim by 4:00 p.m. There is not the Harvest Inn in Larned at 9:00 a.m. charge for the field trip. but there will Improvements on the santa Fe Trail Lunch will be available on the Trail for be a charge for lunch and refresh­ In the 18508 the U.S. Army under­ a small charge. The tour is free. The ments. The trip is by reservation only took many projects to build and im­ journeywUl end at approximately 4:00 and wUl be absolutely limited to 100 prove roads in the American West. p.m. Those wishing to join this tour persons. Contact Roberta Cordova at benefiting both military and civilian should call Pam Wetzel at t316) 659- (719) 846-7721 for reservations and travelers. The follOWing excerpt relat­ 2305 to register. I additional information. ing to the Santa Fe Trail between Fort Union and Santa Fe i$ from "Estimates The fall meeting will be held at Fort Dodge City/Fort Dodge Larned NHS in October. More informa­ for the roads in New Mexico. in charge Jim Sherer. executive director of ofCaptain J. N. Macomb. Topographi­ tion about this meeting will appear in Boot Hill Museum. and Don Wiles. the next WT. cal Engineers." September 29. 1858. Ford County extension agent. took the Senate Executive Document No.2. 36th Mountain Branch lead in getting a local SFTA chapter Congress. 1st session. part II. p. 871. The Mountain Branch Association of organized. After four prelim Inary It is possible that it was dUringthis era SFTA met in Trinidad. Colorado. and meetings a name was chosen, Dodge when the army built the famous bridge elected officers and a board ofdirectors City/Fort Dodge Chapter. bylaws were in Apache Canyon. which figured in for the coming year. Officers are Presi­ adopted. and officers elected: Presi­ the Civil War battle there on March 26. dent Roberta Cordova. V-P Kathy Mc­ dent Don Wiles, V-P Jack Fraley. Sec­ 1862, and the remains ofwhich (actu­ Queary. Secretary Linda Peters. and retary Ann Warner. Treasurer Bob ally a later bridge on the same site. Treasurer John Tarabino. Otherboard Monaghan. Program Chairman Doug perhaps with the original abutments) members are Nancy Robertson. Raton. Sharp. and Reporter/Historian Betty may still be seen. This table is ofinter­ NM; Bruce Peters and Patricia Heath. Braddock. Dues are ten dollars for est· for the distances as well as the Lakin. KS; Max Polen. Cuchara. CO; individuals and fifteen dollars for a estimated costs. A surveyors chain is Phil Peterson. La Junta. CO; and Russ family. Since the time of organization. 66 feet long(80 chains equal one mile). Sherer has moved from Dodge City to Pallone and Mark Gardner. Trinidad. I. Estimate for the completion of the road Topeka where he became tourism di­ from Fort Union to Santa Fe: A resolution was passed supporting rector for the Topeka Convention and the concept of Santa Fe Trail Scenic Visitor Bure~u. From Santa Fe to Arroyo and Historic Byway designation for Hondo, five miles and three The noon meeting on April 19 fea­ that portion of the Mountain Branch chains o o 0 0 " $1,500 which crosses southeastern Colorado. tured a guest speaker. The chapter will host a tour on May 11 ofCuster House From Arroyo Hondo to Rock The route enters Colorado east of La corral, four miles and twenty- Junta, generally follows highways at Fort Dodge, the Black Pool, and Fort Hays-Fort Dodge Trail ruts at Sawlog six chains 4,500 385/50/101/194/350/1-25 and exits From Rock corral to Apache the state via Raton Pass to New Mex­ Creek on the Warner Ranch. There will be no meetingin June. Some members canon by present main road, four ico. The resolution will be presented to miles and fifty-nine chains; but by the Colorado Scenic and Historic By­ plan to join with the Wet/Dry Routes trail, which can be improved, two way selection committee. The chapter Chapter at different times for tours. , Anyone In the area who is interested miles and thirty-nine chains 8,500 •j board also approved membership in the Southeastern Colorado Tourism in the Santa Fe Trail is welcome to From the mouth of Apache Council. attend the meetings and tours. At this, canon to EI Arroyo de Pecos, by time we have discussed several ambi­ present road, ten miles and sev­ The next meeting will be in La Junta tious plans for Fort Dodge and other enty-three chains; by trail, which on June 15; all members and inter­ Trail sites. can be improved, nine miles and ested persons are invited to attend. sixty-four chains 10,500 Contact Phil Peterson of La Junta Unnamed Chapter at (719) 384-8113 for time and place. Independence Fr9m EI Arroyo de Pecos to San Jose crossing of Pecos river, The Mountain Branch organization On March 21a meeting was helq at eighfeen and a half miles 7,500 is making plans for an all-day field trip the National Frontier Trails Center In on Saturday, August 17, to the dino­ Independence; MO. to discuss the or­ From San Jose to Tecalote, fif- saur trailways iIi Purgatoire Canyon in ganizing of a local chapter of SFTA. teen and a half miles 6,500 southeastern Colorado. The dinosaur Jane Mallinson .served as organizing From Tecalote to Las Vegas, trailway is located within the U.S. chairman. Proposed bylaws were stud- eleven miles 3,500

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From Las Vegas to Fort Union, nish themselves in Saint Louis, when it Mounted Voliulteers. I have their m us­ by one road thirty miles, by an- .forwards their respective interests in such ter rolls and would like more informa­ other, twenty-seven miles ..4,5oo an eminent degree. For instance, the nec­ tion about their company and regi­ Bridges across the rivers essary delay of two months or more; in ment as well as additionallnformatlon Pecos, Moro, Sapello, and Galle- making and obtaining New York pur­ about their deaths and where they nas, at $1,000 each ..4,000 chases, the incidental expenses of insur­ might be buried. ance, freightage, &c., all of which, when I have discovered that other relatives TOTAL 51,OOO summed up show a total, by no means served along the Santa Fe Trail dUring From which deduct amount appro­ gratifying or satisfactory to the active driv­ . the Mexican War. James Bryant priated for this road, by act of 3d ing business man. In our day, and with us, Hoover enlisted Sept. 19. 1847. with of March, 1855, No. 58, chapter we have the most graphic illustrations that . Captain Thomas Jones's Company B. 189 16,000 'time is money.· In all departments oftrade, Mounted Santa Fe Trace Battalion Total required for the completion in almost every profession of life, it is re­ Missouri Volunteers and mustered out of the road from Fort Union to garded as the ultima thule of action. Sept. 1848. Spencer Alexander Mor­ Santa Fe 35,000 Here we have a most brilliant example of gan served under Captain B. J. Robin­ •••• • it, in the circumstance of Messrs. Leitens­ son. Company H. Second Regiment dorter and others, who, in thirteen days Missouri Mounted Volunteers len­ 51. louis and the santa Fe Trade after their arrival in this place, have trans­ listed Aug. 3. 1846. and mustered out Mark Gardner found the following acted all their business, laid in their stock Sept. 16. 1847). I would appreciate Item about the Santa Fe Trade In the of merchandise, and are starting out again hearing from anyone who has informa­ St. Louts ReveUle. May 24. 1845. to realize the benefit of their expeditious tion about these units. The increasing importance of our mer­ conduct. Terry J. Rawe cantile transactions with Santa Fe, and a They will be able, owing to the advan­ 420 Butchart Drive new and most gratifying feature which this tages which St. Louis presents as a point Edmonton. Alberta T6R lRl trade was recently assumed, in making St. of supply, to curtail their absence very ma­ CANADA Louis the point of purchase, as (for reasons. terially, making their actual business sea­ • • • • • which we will name hereafter,) it should pe, son but six months, inclusive of the time I am a new member of SFTA and will, perhaps, give some consequence to a occupied in going out and returning. So far enjoy Wagon Tracks. My great-great­ statement of facts concerning the trade, as we are acquainted with the statistics of grandfather was Jesse B. Turley. an which must eventually centre upon our citY the trade, we are not aware that this is . early trader on the Santa Fe Trail and as the chief, if not the. only place of supply. paralleled, for we believe that from eight to friend of Kit Carson. Dick Wootoon. Within the short space of thirteen days, ten months is generally allowed as the time Charles Bent. and Ceran St. Vrain. several American merchants have arrived to be appropriated in the departure, opera­ Jesse is acknowledged tobe the person in ourcity, and instead ofgoing immediately tions and return of the Santa Fe companies. who persuaded Kit Carson to dictate to the eastward to make their purchase, So much for the enterprising spirit of St. his life story. His brother was Simeon and lay in the necessary supplies for busi­ Louis, as displayed in the promotion of her Turley. owner of Turley's Mill at TaQs ness operations in Santa Fe, as has here­ mercantile interests. which was destroyed In the 1847 up­ tofore been the case, they have found it In our enquiries concerning thistrade, we rising. particularly to their advantage to give St. are ir:1formed that over ninety thousand dol­ Louis the full benefit oftheir patronage, and I am interested in following up the lars in gold dust and specie have thus early research on the Turley famUy which are now-bearin mind, within thirteen days been brought into this city. after their arrival here-fully prepared to was done by my late relative. Lester start again for Santa Fe, thereby being In conclusion, we can but observe, that Turley. and Janet LeCompte and enabled to return home in November. The all who are connected in the trade with would appreciate any information that following named merchants have pur­ . Santa Fe must, at no very remote time, your readers might have about Jesse chased all their goods in this city, and perceive, and perceiving, seize the advan­ or his brothers Simeon and Stephen. mostly from the concern of Messrs. Smith tages held forth by the enterprising mer­ If you would like a short article on and Blackwood, a young firm on Main chants of our city. St. Louis must and will Jesse Turley for WT. I would be pleased street, who have been in business here have the full benefit of this trade, and will to do it. some two or three years, but whose con­ not rest satisfied until the hundreds ofthou­ Timothy K. Bamekov nection with distinguished houses in New sands, which are annually expended by the 45 N. Fawn Dr. York enable them to afford facilities equal traders in New York, shall be distributed in Newark. DE 19711 to those furnished to the trade even in New her own markets, where, of right, they be­ An article on Jesse Turley wUl be most York. long. welcome and it need not be "stwrt... The other members of the TUrley famUy E. Leitensdorfer Bro. & Co., two hundred HELP WANTED and twenty-one packages; Messrs. Noland I I might be subjectsfor other articles you could dofor WT. Good luck with your and J.J. Webb, one hundred and sixty-four I recently learned that my great­ research. ditto, making in all three hundred and great-great-grandfather. Alexander Editor eighty-five packages of goods, a large por­ Morgan. served in the Mexican War tion of which are already shipped and on and died on the Santa Fe Trail. Ifany­ • • • • • their way to Independence. This is what we one has information on Alexander I am looking for any information that call despatch. Morgan or his son Patrick Morgan. may be available about a band ofMexi­ It is estimated that the goods already who also died on the way to New Mex­ can bandits that operated along the bought for this trade alone, in this city, ico. I would appreciate hearing from Cimarron Route of the Santa Fe Trail. amount to upwards of thirty thousand dol­ them. Alexander died August 23. probably In the area of the present lars. It is somewhat singular, when we con­ 1847. near Rabbit Ear Creek. and Pat- Oklahoma panhandle and north­ sider the facts in the case, that the Santa .rick died on August 30. 1847. probably eastern New Mexico Territory. just Fe merchants and traders have been so near Las Vegas. They were both mem­ prior to the CivU War. How is that for slow in arriving at the determination to fur- bers of the Third Regiment Missouri a tall order? I would appreciate any

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Information anyone might be able to pie, Trinidad, CO 81082 ,' . lap, KS 66848 provide and thank you foiprintingthis George & Hildred Johnson, Box 1148, Elk­ Don Goebel, 1600 W Johnston Lot A77, request. . hart,KS 67950 Kingsville, TX 78363 Roland D. Ashmore Greg & Thea Johnson, 5703 E. Rocking Harry W. Grider, PO Box 533, DeSoto KS 909 Fairfield Horse Way, Orange, CA 92669 66018 ' Lincoln. NE 68521 John Ivar & Ferne A. Johnston, PO Box George Hawley, 18 Compton Ct., Prairie 7195, Pueblo West, CO 81007 Village, KS 66208 Ronald Lindberg, PO Box 295, Lewis, KS Leonard Hawley, 627 Tillotson, Trinidad, 67552 CO 81082 I NEW SFTA MEMBERS I John & Eunice Meeker, c/o Charles Mansir, , Karen J. Henry, 1801 So. Main St., Lamar, This list Includes new memberships Sunsites, Pearce, AZ 85625 CO 81052 A. Keene & Margaret Metzger, 141 Oxford Donald W. Hensel, 3057 S Higuera #196, received since the last Issue. Those St. Apt. 5, Cambridge, MA 02140 received after this printing wUl appear San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Tom & Ruth Green Saffell, 1614 N. Flem­ Jerome Herrmann, RR 2 Box 158, Kinsley, , In the next Issue. Ifthere Is an error In .~. ing, Garden City, KS 67846 KS 67547 this Infoimatlon. please send correc­ W. Lee &Phyllis E. Scott, 2328 La Vista Ct. David M. Hinkley, 1221 SE 11th St., Lee's tions to the editor. We thank you for NW, Albuquerque, NM 87120 ' Summit, MO 64081 your support. Vernon & Priscilla Sharp, 27200 Co Rd Herb Homsher, 400W. 7th, Springfield CO JNSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 153, Branson, CO 81027 81073 ' . Donald & Glenola Sprague, 3120 Twilight Jill A. Hughes, PO Box 17183, West Palm CtApt 101, Topeka, KS 66614 Osage County Historical Society, Box 361, Beach, FL 33416 Lyndon, KS 66451 Gordon R. & Arlene Sutton, PO Box 285, Clyde G. Johnson, PO Box 252, Boonville, Cokedale, CO 81032 MO 65233 , Cordell W. & Marie Tindall, PO Box 72, Francis C. Kajenscki, 3308 Nairn St., EI EAMILY MEMBERSHIPS Fayette, MO 65248 Paso, TX 79925 The W. B. Warner Family, RR 1 Box 68A, Timothy Knight, 2533 Calle Tres Lomas Tom & Jerri Abbott, 3815 So. St. Louis Spearville, KS 67876, San Diego, CA 92139 ' Ave" Tulsa, OK 74105 Waldo & Mildred Wedel, 350 Ponca PI. William D. Lay, RR 3 Box 119, Fayette, MO Eugene & Jeanne Anderson, 3909 W. , #431, Boulder, CO 80303 65248 141st St., Leawood, KS 66224 Charles & Veryle Wycoff, 912 May Dr., Robert Lee, 10821 Harper Lane, St. Louis, John & Joanne' Barnes, 2213 Calle Ca­ Dodge City, KS 67801 MO 63137 cique, Santa Fe, NM 87505 Kay Juricek Lyons, 1801 So. Eudora, Den­ M/M Vernon E. Belser, 439 Sand Hill Rd., INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIPS ver, CO 80222 Hershey, PA 17033 Ray F. Mahaffey, PO Box 061200, Palm Dick & Danielle Blanck,RR 2 Box 172 Bay, FL 32906 Boonville, MO 65233 ' J. M. Arning, 2220 Tradewind, Mesquite, TX 75150 . Kathy McQueary, PO Drawer A, Raton, NM M/M William J. Beyer, 42 Sherwood Ave., 87740 Hamburg, NY 14075 Richard E. Ayers" PO Box 481, Boonville, . MO 65233 Jeanne S. Miller, 538 Rankin Rd., Inde­ Chris & Ruth Calderwood, RR 1 Box 178, pendence, MO 64055 Overbrook, KS 66524 John Barlow, 505 N. 13th, Dodge City, KS 67801 Ted Mueller, 508 Annette, Dodge City, KS Earl & Connie Casteel, 5666 S 106 Rd., 67801 Alamosa, CO 81101 ,John J. Barlow Jr., 505 N. 13th, Dodge City, KS 67801 ' Sara Jo Murphy, PO Box 7, La Veta, CO Roger W. Collins Family, 3656 Utah PI, St. 81055 Louis, MO 63116 John A. Bates, 3908 Shirley Rd., Rockford, IL 61108 Russ Pallone, 34867County Rd 18.3, Trini­ Earl Ray & Carmella Davidson, KCR Box dad, CO 81082 3, Boise City, OK 73933 Dean Bradley, 2860 Porter, Wichita, KS 67204 ' Geneva Persinger, PO Box 201 , Johnson, Bob & Karen Dorian, 9905 East 85th Terr., KS 67855 Raytown, MO 64138 Virginia R. Bruce, PO Box 1151, Raton, NM 8n40 . Max L Polen, 54 Aspen Rd., Cuchara, CO M/M H. Reed Doughty, 48 Woodley Rd., 81055 Rock Island, IL 61201 Denise Bucher, 2108 Ninth Ave East Wil- liston, NO 58801 ' Janine Rawe, 4869 Watling St., Burnaby, Janice & Wes Duncan, 288 Colorado St., B. C. VSJ 1W6, CANADA Springfield, CO 81073 Jim Burruss, 1164 East 66 St., Kansas City LuNelle Riggle, 10750 W. Berry Dr., . Susan & Len Epstein, 2714 Bradford Sq., MO 64131 ' E. Littleton, CO 80127 Fort Collins, CO 80526 . C. F. Alan Cass, 4560 Hanover Ave., Boul­ Bonnie Robinson, 8901 Hillview Okla- Richard & Susan Estes, 3446 Seaglen Dr., , der, CO 80303 homa City, OK 73150 ' Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90274 M. J. Cathey, 932 Dakota SE, Albuquer­ Leone Weber Rodgers, 204 W. 6th, Lyn­ '. Ann & Clifton Fenner, Rt 2 Box 9O-A, Sweet que, NM 87108 ,l -~. don, KS 66451 • Springs, MO 65351 Helen M. Chester, PO Box 105 New M/M N. S. Ferry III, At 2 Box 178, New Franklin, MO 65274 ' James E. Romero, 4475 Falcon Dr., Lom­ ) Franklin, MO 65274 . Geoff Cohen, 3521 Elmwood Ct, Riverside poc, CA 93436 William & OliviaFox, 002 Hedrick, Buckner, CA 92506 " Herman Schaller, RR 1 Box 20, Offerle, KS MO 64016 . Stanley V. Cronquist, 1512 Summit Beat- 67563 Michael & Virginia Gleason, 909 E. 5th, rice, NE 68310 ' Norman Schlesener, 3305 Newbury, Man- Kinsley, KS 67547 Kathleen Donnelly, 901 Park St., Trinidad hattan,KS 66502 . Austin "Slim" & Grace Green, PO Box 88, CO 81082 ' Nancy Schneider, RR 2 Box 67, New Ber­ Tesuque, NM 87574 Robert L. Dyer;513 High St., Boonville, MO lin, IL 62670 Edward & Gloria Helmuth, 18733Vista Dr., 65233 Dorris Schuermann, PO Box 171 New Buena Vista, CO 81211 ' K. Duane Embers, 314 Allison, McPherson Franklin, MO 65274 ' Manford & Georgia Herron, RFD Box 62, KS 67460 ' Patrick E. Shannon,13 Chesterton Lane Manter, KS 67862 John E. Fleck, 900 Edgewood, Columbia Chesterfield MO 63017 ' Boyd & Virginia Green Higgins, 2407 Colo­ MO 65203 ' John Shopland, 3612 Hwy 5 N., New rado St., Hutchinson, KS 67501 Richard Gamewell, 200 Jersey St., Denver Franklin, MO 65274 Ernest G. & Patricia Johnson, 615 S. Ma~ CO 80220 ' ' Vada Snider, PO Box 332, North Newton Dorothy (Pat) Gentry, RR 3 Box 180, Dun- KS 67117 '

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Dorothy Snow, PO Box 27, New Franklin, June22,1991: Santa Fe Trail Symposium, and free admission at all NPS sites. MO 65274 Fort Union, NM. . Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 1991: Military living-his­ Gerald H. Stokes, King's-X, Bon Carbo, CO June 23-28, 1991: First Session of field tory programs, Fort Larned NHS. 81024 trips, Southwest Institute. Contact Jerry Sept. 15, 1991: Corazon de los Caminos Skeeter Thatcher,2913 E. 24th St., Farm­ Williams at (505) 277-2828. Chapter meeting at Las Vegas, 2:00 ington, NM 87402 July 1-6, 1991: Second session of field p.m., (505) 454-0383. Dorothy M. Thompson, 1009 Dwyer Ave., . trips, Southwest Institute, see above for Sept. 21, 1991: Candleli~ht Tour, Fort Raton, NM87740 contact. . Larned NHS, reservations required, Gary R. Toms, 4223 East 42nd Way, Inde­ July 2-5,1991: Tour of the Coronado Trail (316) 285-6911. . pendence, MO 64055­ . in Kansas, Coronado Quivira Museum, ~ept. 21·22, 1991: Old Taos Trade Fair, June Valentine, RFD, Aguilar, CO 81020 105 W. Lyon, Lyons, KS 67554 (316) Taos, NM. . Patricia Vaught, PO Box 993, Trinidad,CO 257-3941. Sept. 25-29, 1991: Traveling the Trail, Mis­ 81082 July 4, 1991: "Old Time" Independence souri Symposium. Contact Elaine Sim­ Walter D. Wosila~, 2307 Ridgemont, Co­ Day celebration, Fort Larned NHS. mons, Barton County Community Col­ lumbia, MO 65203 . July 9, 1991: Heart of the Flint Hills Chap­ lege, RR 3 Box 1362, Great Bend, KS ter board meeting, Council Grove. 67530-9283 (316) 792-2701, ext. 214. July 13, 1991: 30th anniversary rededica­ Sept. 26-30, 1991: Santa Fe Trail Sympo­ II.-_T_R_A...;IL;..;C;,...A_L_EN.....;D;;.;"A..;.;"R I tion at Lower (Wagonbed) Spring, 6:00 sium, Arrow Rock, MO. Contact Coordi­ p.m., Wagonbed Spring Chapter. nator Richard R. Forry, 205 S. 6th St., Everyone is invited to send notices' for July 15, 1991: Deadline for August Wagon Arrow Rock, MO 65320. this section; provide location. date(s). Tracks. Oct. 13, 1991: Fort Larned Day, programs time(s), and activity. Remember tWs is July 21, 1991: Corazon de los Caminos and exhibits celebrating the 25th anni­ • a quarterly. The next issue should ap­ Chapter meeting at Loma Parda, 2:00 versary of Fort Larned NHS, free admis­ pear in August. so send information for p.m., (505) 387-2491. sion. September and later to arrive by July July 27, 1991: Trinidad Historical Society Oct. 21, 1991: Cimarron Cutoff Chapter 15. Thank you. " Picnic, contact PO Box 176, Trinidad, quarterly meeting, Elkhart, KS, 7:00 Ro~es CO 81082 or call (719) 846-9139. p.m. June 1, 1991: WeVDry Chapter I tour of Wet Route, meet at Harvest Inn July 27-28, 1991: Soldiering on the Santa Dec. 14, 1991: Christmas Open House, • in Larned, 9: 00 a. m. Reservation Fe Trail, Fort Union, NM. . Fort Larned NHS. needed for noon meal only, call Pam July 27-28, 1991: Raton Centennial Cele­ Wetzel at (316) 659-2305. bration, contact Raton Chamber &Eco­ FROM THE EDITOR June3-21, 1991: "The Gateway Plains and nomic Development Council, PO Box the Santa Fe Trail," lecture series, 1211, Raton, NM 87740 1-800-638­ EARLY DEADLINE FOR Southwest Institute, University of New 6161. Mexico, Albuquerque. Contact Jerry July 29, 1991: Cimarron Cutoff Chapter AUGUST ISSUE: JULY 15 Williams at (505) 277-2828. quarterly meeting, Clayton, NM, 7:00 June 8, 1991: Santa Fe Trail Days, p.m., Eklund Hotel. All material for the August issue Baca/Bloom and Pioneer Museum, PO Aug. 1-4, 1991: Santa Fe Trail Days, Mar­ must be received by July 15. I hope the Box 472, Trinidad, CO 81082 (719) shall, MO, contact Tomi Blackburn at August issue will be out in August and 846-7217. (816) 886-8372. apologize for the current issue beingso June 8-9, 1991: Santa Fe Trail Festival, Aug. 7·10, 1991: Palace of the Governors late. While tWs issue is at the printers. Trinidad, CO. Buffalo Roast & Trade Fair, Santa Fe, weather permitting. the Olivas' plan to June 9-14,1991: Fifth Annual Santa Fe NM. be flying in a small plane to Fort Union . Trail Ride, Heart of the Flint Hills Chap­ Aug. 17, 1991: Mountain Branch Chapter for the centennial celebration of the ter. Reservations required by May 31 ; field trip to Purgatoire Canyon, reserva­ closing of the post and photographing wr~e Trail Ride, 130 West Main, Council tions required, call Roberta Cordova at the Trail from the air. While the August Grove, KS 66846. (719) 846-7721. issue is at the printers. we plan to be June 11-16,1991: Santa Fe Trail Rendez­ Aug. 18, 1991: Corazon de los Caminos rafting the Green River through Lodore vous, Raton, NM. Chapter meeting at Springer, 2:00 p.m., (505) 483-5926. Canyon with daughterDanawho man­ June 17-22, 1991 : Summer Seminar for ages the Utah division ofthe American School Teachers, "Before Zebulon Pike, Aug. 24, 1991: An Evening at Fort Union, the Other Histories of Kansas," Coro­ Fort Union, NM. River Touring Association. nado Quivira Museum, 105 W. Lyon, Aug. 25, 1991: 75th Anniversary of Na­ Happy trails! Lyons, KS 67554 (316) 257-3941. tional Park System, special programs -Leo E. Oliva

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