Wagon Tracks Volume 5 Article 1 Issue 3 Wagon Tracks Volume 5, Issue 3 (May 1991) 1991 Wagon Tracks. Volume 5, Issue 3 (May, 1991) Santa Fe Trail Association Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wagon_tracks Part of the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Santa Fe Trail Association. "Wagon Tracks. Volume 5, Issue 3 (May, 1991)." Wagon Tracks 5, 3 (1991). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wagon_tracks/vol5/iss3/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Wagon Tracks by an authorized editor of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. : Wagon Tracks. Volume 5, Issue 3 (May, 1991) VOLUME 5 . MAY 1991 NUMBER 3 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 Missouri 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 Published by UNM Digital Repository, 1991 1 Wagon Tracks, Vol. 5 [1991], Iss. 3, Art. 1 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.