When a friend invited him to visit Santa Fe earlier this year he saw it as a chance to learn more about his great-great-grandfather and about the trail, a busy trade route that stretched from New ...

Lauren Beale is an editor-at-large for Forbes Global Properties. The Santa Fe Trail was a well-traveled stage coach route connecting Missouri and New Mexico during the 19 th century. Freight ...

James Riding In doesn’t pull punches about the impact the Santa Fe Trail had on Native American communities. “It was devastating,” said the recently retired professor and co-founder of the ...