Wagon Tracks Volume 35 Issue 2 Wagon Tracks Volume 35, Issue 2 Article 1 (February 2021) 2021 Wagon Tracks Volume 35, Issue 2 (February 2021) 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 35, Issue 2 (February 2021)." Wagon Tracks 35, 2 (2021). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wagon_tracks/vol35/iss2/1 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 35, Issue 2 (February 2021) Quarterly Publication of the Santa Fe Trail Association volume 35 ♦ number 2 February 2021 Cross-Cultural Marriages: Six Jaramillo Women ♦ page 13 Freighting for Uncle Sam ♦ page 20 Hell on Wheels: Hays City and Sheridan ♦ page 27 Published by UNM Digital Repository, 2021 1 Wagon Tracks, Vol. 35 [2021], Iss. 2, Art. 1 On the Cover: Epifanio Aguirre by Ron Kil Epifanio Aguirre was a Mexican-born merchant and trader on the Camino Real and the Santa Fe Trail in the 1850s and 1860s. Operating from his hacienda in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Epi- fanio was a highly respected trader who kept his merchandise- loaded caravans moving from Westport, Missouri, to Chihuahua, Mexico. He also freighted government supplies from Fort Union to resupply other posts in New Mexico. Aguirre was a frontiersman as well as a trader, and a man of great ability and courage, which was frequently tested in encounters with the Comanche and Apache along the trail. He was killed while driving one of his own stagecoaches in Arizona, just north of the Mexican line, in an Apache ambush in 1870. I was commissioned to paint the portrait of the bold Southwest- erner by Roy Medina, whose wife Rowene is Epifanio's great- granddaughter. Read more about freighting for the government on page 20 of this issue and the Aguirres on page 23. In Search of artIcleS For this bicentennial year, Wagon Tracks is looking for articles that explore • the full spectrum of people traveling the trail, • how the Santa Fe Trail fit into the big picture of westward expansion and Manifest Destiny, • how travelers and the trail intermingled/used other trails which have since been designated national historic trails or may be in the future, • and the global aspect of trade along the SFT. If you have an idea for an article, contact Ruth Friesen at [email protected]. About the Santa Fe Trail Association The mission of the Santa Fe Trail Association is to protect and preserve the Santa Fe Trail and to promote awareness of the historical legacy associated with it. Follow us online at www.santafetrail.org, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube Wagon Tracks, the official publication of the Santa Fe Trail Association (SFTA), publishes well-researched and documented peer-reviewed articles relating to the Santa Fe Trail. Wagon Tracks is published in February, May, August, and November. Deadlines are the 10th of the month prior to publication. Queries are welcome. Complete submission guidelines are posted at www.santafetrail.org. Although the entire issue of Wagon Tracks is copyrighted in the name of the Santa Fe Trail Association, copyright to each article remains in the author’s name. Articles may be edited or abridged at the editor’s discretion. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wagon_tracks/vol35/iss2/12 Wagon Tracks February 2021 2 : Wagon Tracks Volume 35, Issue 2 (February 2021) Quarterly of the Santa Fe Trail Association volume 35 ♦ number 2 February 2021 Contents 2 On the Cover: Epifanio Aguirre by Ron Kil 4 Insights from your President 5 Joanne’s Jottings 6-12 Trail News 8-9 2021 Symposium 12 SFTA Websites Listing 32 Chapter Reports 33 Membership Form 36 Calendar Bullwhacker: Harpers, 1867. Stage Ride to Colorado 13-19 20-27 27-32 Cross Cultural Marriages: Freighting for Uncle Sam Hell on Wheels: Hays City Six Jaramillo Women and Sheridan by Doyle Daves by Darlis A. Miller by Dr. Michael Olsen PublishedFebruary by UNM2021 Digital Repository, 2021 Wagon Tracks 3 3 Wagon Tracks, Vol. 35 [2021], Iss. 2, Art. 1 Insights from your President by Larry D. Short, President of SFTA While there are still unknowns as to months to ensure that all Santa Fe how these events will be held, we are Trail Association projects, events, committed to holding each and ev- and commitments are completed in a ery one of them in some form. Most timely manner. Most of our chapters events are being held at outdoor have moved forward with the devel- venues with adequate space for social opment of great events and programs distancing. Please check our websites for the commemoration. at www.santafetrail.org and www. santafetrail200.org, Wagon Tracks, Symposium 2021 is going to be our Constant Contact email News one of the best ever. My hats off to from the Santa Fe Trail Association, the Bent’s Fort Chapter and their and your local chapters’ s newslet- leadership for assembling a compre- ters for continued updates and new hensive Symposium. I encourage all events for 2021. members to attend and invite their friends. For more information about With all of the things going on in the Symposium visit the web site at 2020, the Santa Fe Trail Association www.2021sfts.com leadership team, board, and com- What a year we have come through! mittees have continued in their My hope is that we can put all of The year 2020 is now behind us and commitment to ensure the vitality the miserable events of 2020 behind we must reinvigorate ourselves to and prominence of your organiza- us and look forward to an exciting move forward to commemorate the tion in moving forward. Our task and eventful 2021. We owe it to our- 200th anniversary of the Santa Fe agreements with the National Park selves, the nation, and our Santa Fe Trail in 2021. Service have remained in effect and Trail Association to make this one our requested funding for 2022 has of the best years of commemoration Our 200th anniversary team, our been submitted. Projects such as the ever. twelve chapters, and many communi- Survey 123, High Potential Sites & ties along the 1207 miles of the trail Segments, Mapping and Marking, Stay safe, healthy, and think optimis- tically! I will see you on the Trail in have worked hard to develop great Interpretation, and Education proj- events to commemorate the open- ects have continued. 2021. ing of America’s first international highway of commerce by William The committee leadership has held Becknell in 1821. numerous Zoom meetings these past Symphony in the Flint Hills Salutes Santa Fe Trail “We’re excited to join in the This marks the 16th year for the 200th anniversary commemo- Flint Hills celebration, which rotates ration of the Santa Fe Trail,” to a different remote pasture the sec- Symphony in the Flint Hills announces plans says Julie Hower, Symphony ond Saturday of June. Weather and to salute the Santa Fe Trail in 2021 with in the Flint Hills Board of COVID-19 cancelled the 2019 and world-class music and nature at its annual Directors chair. “Our location 2020 events, making 2021 a much- prairie gathering near the historic trail town in June lies just a few miles anticipated return. of Council Grove, Kansas. Scheduled for from where the trail rolled Saturday, June 12, the acclaimed Symphony through Council Grove. Visi- Tickets go on sale March 6. in the Flint Hills Signature Event will feature tors can tour the area’s historic For more information: https:// a sunset concert by the 80-piece Kansas City sites, then rendezvous on the symphonyintheflinthills.org or 620- Symphony at North Lakeview Pasture, along prairie for our roundup of 273-8955. with activities highlighting the Santa Fe Trail tallgrass heritage, beauty and bicentennial. music.” https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wagon_tracks/vol35/iss2/14 Wagon Tracks February 2021 4 : Wagon Tracks Volume 35, Issue 2 (February 2021) Joanne’s Jottings by Joanne VanCoevern, Association Manager fice partners, conducted various focus community website can be found at groups in primary areas of the SFTA www.santafetrail200.com/ and the organization. These 2021 Task Force Quivira Chapter and Regional Plan- groups meetings, held between 2009 ning Group website can be found at – 2016, included participants from www.2021santafetrailkansas.com/. committees, chapters, and various ex- Additional information and updates perts in specific areas which included: will be shared through our Santa Fe Education, Website, Social Media, Trail Association Facebook pages. We Mapping, Marking, Marketing, Out- will continue to share information reach, Publications, Publicity, Budget, about events as we receive it. In addi- Research, Signage, and Preservation. tion, our National Trails 200th Intern Ashley Wheeler will be creating a In 2016, SFTA held the first of many StoryMap featuring various events meetings to develop a plan for how along the Santa Fe National Historic best to acknowledge the 200th anni- Trail (see story on page 7). versary of the opening of the Santa Fe Trail. And, here we are! 2021 and the The Symphony in the Flint Hills 2021 Welcome to 2021 and the 200th anni- 200th anniversary of the opening of Signature Event will take place on versary of the Santa Fe Trail! Recent- the Santa Fe Trail to successful trade. North Lakeview Pasture near Council ly, while going through and managing Grove in Morris County, Kansas, on e-mails, I ran across some of the earli- With the additional obstacles thrown June 12.