This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail as a major ... come out here in the early 1800s, as well and used a portion of what became that trail too. So really, he (Becknell ...

Kingsbury died on her second trip over the Santa Fe Trail in June 1857 ... Thus went the process of transporting remains in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Abbott said. There is evidence that ...

Meet the trailblazing women of the Santa Fe Trail. The Santa Fe Trail was a major international trade route in the 1800s. Spanning about 800 miles from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe ...

Sunrise on the Foster Farm on Ash Creek near Pawnee Rock, one of the stopping points along the Santa Fe ... 1800s and that was traveling through the West went right down here.” Indeed, the trail ...

Women’s stories are often left out of narratives about the Santa Fe Trail. Author Frances Levine ... census records, property maps, wills and lawsuits.” She struggled especially to find ...