page_title: Great Osage Trail
section_title: Iroquois Tree of Peace and the Trail
hierarchical_section_title: Great Osage Trail / Iroquois Tree of Peace and the Trail
caption_attribution_description: English: Descriptive plaque at the foot of an oak tree ceremoniously planted October 24, 1999 by the Tree of Peace Society, a few yards south of Lexington Street in Independence, Missouri, a southwest-curving stretch of Lexington Street which follows the route of the ancient Native-American "Great Osage Trail." The Peace tree is also on the property of the RLDS/Community of Christ "Independence Temple," on real estate claimed and then purchased by Mormon leaders in 1831.
context_page_description: The Great Osage Trail, also known as the Osage Trace or the Kaw Trace was one of the more well-known Native American trails through the countryside of what are today called the Midwest and Plains States of the U.S., pathways originally created by herds of Buffalo or other migrating wildlife.
  The Osage Indians and other tribes traveled among a variety of routes later named "Osage Trails" by European settlers, the famous Route 66 through southern Missouri Ozarks follows the route of one such "Osage Trail" and U.S. Route 24 through central Missouri follows the route of the "Great Osage Trail", which in 1825 became known as the first phase of the Santa Fe Trail, extending from central Missouri westward shadowing the route of the Missouri River, then turning southwestward through Independence, Missouri, into Kansas; Colorado; Santa Fe, New Mexico and "Old" Mexico. From an 1881 History of Jackson County, Missouri,
  "The Santa Fe trade first began at Old Franklin, a little town on the Missouri River... and continued from this point till the year 1831, when it sprung up at Independence.
context_section_description: On October 24, 1999, Iroquois chieftain Jake Swamp oversaw a ceremonial planting of an Iroquois "Tree of Peace" alongside the route of the Great Osage Trail, a few yards south of Lexington Street in Independence, Missouri, on the property of the Community of Christ's Independence Temple and on the site of the Latter-day Saint "Temple Site" property claimed and then purchased by Mormon leadership in 1831. A 1979 article in an LDS Church magazine discusses early Latter-day Saint travels along the Boone's Lick Road from St. Louis to Franklin in the central part of the state, then along the Great Osage Trail/Santa Fe Trail from Franklin to Missouri's western border.
caption: Commemorative marker near base of an oak tree planted on the property of the Independence Temple in 1999, a few dozen yards south of a stretch of The Great Osage Trail which today is known as Lexington Street/Avenue in Independence, Missouri.
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