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Wagon Tracks Volume 9 Issue 1 Wagon Tracks Volume 9, Issue 1 (November Article 1 1994) 1995 Wagon Tracks. Volume 9, Issue 1 (November, 1994) 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 9, Issue 1 (November, 1994)." Wagon Tracks 9, 1 (1995). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wagon_tracks/vol9/iss1/1 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 9, Issue 1 (November, 1994) VOLUME 9 NOVEMBER 1994 NUMBER 1 .. V-P GARDNER RESIGNS .. \ SFTA Vice-PresidentMark L. Gardner has resigned from that office because '.." his schedule does not permit him the time necessary to fulfill his duties to the Association. Gardner is a charter member ofSFTA and has served capa , bly as a director and vice-president. working on important committees and , n" . contributing scholarly articles to ,t:::;;~ Wagon Trades. >,, Gardner plans to maintain his inter est in and support of SFTA insofar as time permits. His research and'writing ventures will· continue. including planned publications on the Santa Fe Trail. He hopes his successor will be better able to devote the time required to build a stronger and better SFTA. His yea~ ofservice to the AsslX;iation have merited the appreciation of all members. " INDEX AVAILABLE. , SOON- , . A' comprehensive index for the first eightvolumes ofWagon Tracks iSbeing ': b~ soon~ • .fl". compiled arid will available , BO~,ita .. Leo and Oliva are engaged in ! .,. ~ ... , .,"". , .. the task authorized by the board of ,! -,~ " ..,. Clirectors. This essential tool will aid ! "" "\. • readers in finding information without , , searchiQg through every',issue. All Tr~lIi;, members will receive a copy when it is This g'ray granite DAR marker, the first on the Santa Fe pklahoma, was dedicated October 1, 1994; Ito r: Mary Gamble, SFTA director from Colorado; Bill printed. and additional copies will be th~ available for sale. Those wis'hing to fill Pitts, SFTA president; Joan Kachel, chairman of marker committee; Dan Sliarp, gaps in their collection of Wagon SFNHT advisory council member; David Hutchison, SFTA director from Oklahoma; Tracks may orderback issQes from the and Mrs. Ovle Holland, regent of High Plains DAR chapter. (photo courtesy of Leo SFTA Last Chance Store while they Gamble;) last. FIRST OKLAHOMA DAR MARKERS SET, ~ - '.~ .... , TRAILTOUR PLANNED BY SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES WHEN the Daughters ofthe American Revolution (DAR) erected granite markerS . , ' along the route ofthe Santa Fe Trail in the early years of this century. none was A study-tour of the Santa Fe Trail ~ located on the Cimarron Route in'the Oklahoma Panhandle. This omission was being planned by the travel depart was recently corrected with the placement of two gray granite monuments in ment of Smithsonian Associates. Ten~ Cimarron Countyby the High Plains DAR Chapter ofGuymon. OK. One is located tatlvelyscheduled for September 9-17. beside State Highway 325. where it crosses the old Trail. on what Marc SimmonS 1995. from the Kansas City. MO. area calls "one of the choicest spots on this section of the Santa Fe Trail." It is several " to Santa Fe. NM. the tour will accom miles east of the site ofCamp Nichols. The other DAR marker was set on County • modate 30 participants. Road 13-16C at the Oklahoma-New Mexico border. WT Editor Leo E. Oliva will serve as The dedication of the marker on Highway 325 took place on October 1, 1994. the tour guide. SFTA members will be at 2:30 p.m.• dUring the annual tour of the Cimarron CountY Historical Society. welcome to participate. Details will ap~ Mrs. Ovle Holland. regent of the High Plains Chapter. was in charge of,the pear in WT as soon as the itinerary is ceremony and unveiled the attractive memorial. SFTA member Joan Kachel Was completed. Oliva plans to lead addi cll3J.rman of the committee in charge of setting the markerS. James R. Fletcher ,tional tours on the Trail in 1996 and gave the dedicatory address. SFTA President Bill Pitts. several members of the 1997 as part ofthe 175th anniversary Cimarron CutoffChapter. and other SFTA guests were on hand to celebrate this celebration. important addition to the historic road. ' ',- November 1994 1 Published by UNM Digital Repository, 1995 1 Wagon Tracks, Vol. 9 [1995], Iss. 1, Art. 1 PRESIDENT'S COLUMN SUGGESTIONS FOR SFTA to do all of this. As interested citi zens, we can step forward to do With the 175th anniversary of Wil by Byron Christopher Shutz much ofthis ourselves. Members of liam Becknell's party entering Santa (Byron Shutz, Kansas City, MO, is a the Wet/Dry Routes Chapter have Fe in 1821 coming up in 1996, the semi-retired businessman and an set a fine example of initiating a Santa Fe Trail Association, SFTA active member of SFTA. He and his project and carrying it through to chapters, National Park Service, state wife, MarUyn, have traveled the Trail completion. and local tourism departments, from New Franklin to Santa Fe. They Marking the Trail could be an im county historical societies, and others have been involved in and made portant use ofmembership fees. For will be cooperating on numerous pro significant contributions to historic example, periodic contests could be grams. This is a good time for chapters preservation work atArrow Rock, MO, held for an award granted by the to work with local chambers of com and are interested in preservation of Association to the most significant other Santa Fe Trail sites. The \ merce and state tourism offices to co and deserving proposal related to , ordinate and advertise projects. The following was sent to the o.1Jlcers and marking the Trail. !.- SFTA 175th anniversary committee directors of SFTA several weeks ago (4) There are physical structures and chairman is Harry Myers, PO Box 7, and is printed here, with Mr. Shutz's relics of the Trail which beg to be Watrous NM 87753. Please keep him permission, for the consideration of preserved and even ,possibly re informed ofall activities. the entire membership. He would stored. Again, we need not wait for The past growth ofSFTA and its fine appreciate hearing from interested the National Park Service to do this. chapters now allows us to work closely members.) I am confident that there are indi with the five state tourism offices and THE spirit and history ofthe Santa Fe viduals, corporations, historical so numerous local governments in the Trail offer an eXciting. fulfilling experi cieties, SFTA chapters, and other celebrating of the Trail's anniversary. entities that, if encouraged, could SFTA maybe compared with a legume ence. That is why each of us has, to plant. The chapters are nodules on the one degree or another, become capti over time provide funds for individ roots which enrich the plant and the ,vated by the Trail. ual projects. In Osage County, KS, surroundingarea. The blossoms ofthe I believe that more can be done to south of Topeka, the McGee-Harris plant are the many activities of the preserve relics and remnants of the Stage Station at llO-Mile Creek is organization which produce seeds for Trail and to provide information to future programs and growth. those who have a great curiosity about WAGON TRACKS is tbe official publication During early Trail years both the the wagon roads and about the people of tbe Santa Fe Trail Association, a non-profit United States and Mexico looked upon who fonowed it to trade. I offer for your organization incorporated under tbe laws of Santa Fe Trail commerce as a source study and consideration some ways in tbe State of Colorado. Letters and articles are which SFTA might, play an expanded welcome, buttbey become tbe property ofWf of economic growth. Today the states and may be edited or abridged at too editor's with the remains of the Trail are look role in preserving and explaining the marvelous history of the Trail. discretion. All rights reserved. Inquiries can ing to the modern travelers following be directed 10 tbe appropriate address below. the historic route as a source of eco First, the Association has somevalu Annual subscriptions are obtained througb nomic growtli:Many of the special able assets, including( I) the clear and membership in Ibe Association, wbose dues events the c,ommuIiities present in inspiring writings ofMarc Simmons, are fixed per calendar year. Cbecks sbould be 1996 will become annual events, and one ofthe founders of the Association, made payable to tbe Santa Fe Trail Associa the SFTA members and'chapters will whose literature about the Trail pro tion and sent to tbe secretary-treasurer. be involved. ',' vides examples for other contemporary Membership Categories ; . scholarship, (2) Wagon Tracks, a vi Benefactor $1,000 SFTA, all chapters, and the anniver Patron $100/year sary committee will be working with brant, hil!ltly informative newsletter which is the primary link between the InstItutIonal $2S/year national. state;and local organizations FamIly $20/year in 1996 to celebrate the historic splen membership and SFTA, and (3) the biennial symposia, viewed by the Individual $IS/year dor of the Tool, its commerce and its Editor: Leo E. Oliva, PO Box 31, Woodston, travelers. All of this is a prelude to the membership as one of the benefits of being a member of the Association. KS 67675 200th anniversary in 2021. Truly the President: Bill Pitts, 3824 N Oak Grove Dr Santa Fe Trail lives mi.