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TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1910-08-04

bielt er bos 6eilige Sofroment?
SieIt er es feIt2 Sber 3itterte ietnc
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ihimmernoc Monitron3 in Wtenihcn-
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er entbiilt aid -
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SO er binfoQt, liebt man ourd Utarf
uno geIn.
g9ie man in gobnten iab. 8te
man in Der Stride 81 2elnberg iab.
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1910-08-04

ben Dino fpegenllnterfdlGguns zines
ibr engagement am Reip gortsr Utans
battantbeater betreffenben 8riefes betm
Sfrafrihter bes eriten Waildnoer 6es
meinoebe3irfes pertldgt. iDorauf Der
a0ttlide Sdnger nit elmer @egentlage
fpegen gerleumbung gednttportet bat.
sSn elmer ,8entihrift' er3dblt gurus
10, fpie er in aiporno Dor oreiSebn Sabz
rem bic SGngerin fennen uno lieben ges
lernt unb fpis bas Sbpu ibrer Giebe etn
Sdbrse6nt ungetriibt beitanben babe,
bis Is ourh ieinen Chauffeur, GeIare
Romati genannt. in grauiomer Weiie
geft0rt tpurbs. Sn bieIen bate ii4 bic
Sreunoin bes 5enors 10 beftig Derliebt,
bab tie, ipGbrsnb guruio in Ren Dort
feline Stimme ertonen lieB, ben Sdpur
Der 1reue, ben Tie Stpar niht por benz
2lltar obgelegt bate, Itruppellos per@
gdb. 2lls garufo. aus ameritd in isin
8aterldnb suriidgetebrt, oisie unliebs
lame Gntbedung gsnu6t bate, iogte
sr ben arafttpdgenlenfer iofort aus ieiz
mem Dienit, unb bic ihone aou nerz
iprad. ibn reht balo 3u pergeiIsn. aber
Ihon noh ipenigen Wonaten mar lie
nit ibm auf einem NIT garuIo's 9elo
sstduiien 4utomobil nod Qi53u ssTabs
rem unb bate nod oasu elm ibrem Wers
bdltnib nit psm Sduger entiproRenes
ainb als geiiel mitgenommen, oas lie
nur geeen elm a0legslo bon elmer balbeH
WilIion ssranes berdusgeben tpollte.
8oh ss tam 3u elmer neuerlihen 8ers
fobnuna, bic frsilih nidt BON Dauer
mar - benn alsbalo tsbrte Qba gu
ibrem Chauffeur Suriid. Ta es aber
bem 2isbsspdur an Gelo feblte, perflag'
ts Garulo's ebemulise Jreunoin oisIen
oui 5erausgabe ibrer Supelen, mas
Der 8eIhulbigte tpieber nit elmer 0es
asntlage pegen 8eruntreuung bon
spansistauieno Jranes beanttportete
Sim Ropembsr 1908 trdt Garuio's
Jrsunb Garignani als Griebensitifts,
Quf unb brdhte cine absrmalige Nus
| i0bnung suitanbe, nobel Garuio Del
tpieSeraeiponnenen Sreunnin als Gle:
bespfdnb Elm 5dus imWertbe bon $50
1000 1raucs ihsntts uno ihr auberoeH
elm monutlihss RdbelgelD bon 600C
5roncs uusieBts.
srosbsm litt ss Sisrora Siu6stti
ni6t lange BEL benz 10 freigebiger
Jreunb.. unb ipisber iu6t. lie ibrer
Chauffeur auf. Worduf Garuio be-
Wutter isinsr atnoer bas Wonatsg.lt
auf 500 ssrancs rebusirt.. absr aot
srtldrte ii6 nit elmer 10 ildglihen 46
ftnhung niht sufrieoen, uno 70 ndhmer
Die eeri6tlifen Streitigtsitsn ibrer
4nfdna. Die primanonna beIhuloie
ben sroBen Garuio isbt pffsntli4 in
rGorriere bella Ssru", bab er ihr al
IShmudIa6er uno lire ean3e Gdrberp
Be fpiberrehtIih porentbaIte, um iie a
binesrn. ihre tiinitleriihe 2aufbohl
nisbsr duf3unshmen. 4uBerbsm Der
traute lie oem 9ertrster oes Waildn
Der 9lattes cine Rsibe BON Sntimitdt.
iiber ibr 3uIammenle6en nit GaruI
on, bic fir bic 9er6ffeutlihuns mid
s.eignet itisnsn.
] Der famoie 3tpiit bes ehsmalissl
| 2is6sspuurss, has iih iest 10 gliben
| babt, Iheint nod an Qusbebnung su
HebmeH gu tpoIlsn. Sebenfalls itebt eli
pdbrer RattsH.riss bon proseHeu Be
Dor, beren 8srIauf natiirIih BON oel
8ersbreru hes aouia Der 5snore mi
| srobtemS SntereFe perfolst tperoen pirt
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1910-08-04
Garuiu's 9iebesnotb.
M niIanb Inn esuli.

garuIo's pripatlebsn pirD ausens
hlidli1 in ben itnlienifhen 3eitunsen
nit nobrem 9ebogen ndber beleuhtet.
Den MnInb biersu bietet Elm 5tpiiden
bem beriibmtsn1enor unb ieinerJreuns
DIN. Der primabonnn Mba 9inhetti.
oussebrpnener 3ipiit. Der binnsn aur>
5em ein serintlines Huhipiel bobsn
fslI. DIE psimahsnna bot ndmIi&
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1910-08-04

MabI3sit su eiisn, neil ibrer Bebaupe
tuna mad. bic Ghfpeinetotletts, pelHe
Den 6nuptbeitanDibeiI Der aben6mahls
seit bilosten, ablolut peroorben paren.
Bon perIdiebensn Seiten tpiro bebaups
tst, bub bas Gleifh pollerDiirmer mar.
Woblfahrtsbireftor email miro bic
Qnqeleaenbeit unterIuhen.
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1910-08-04
5olgsn fol der
Suterpuuttip ipu.
Mad Tim lam 9. 81

RAD ibm lam 6. gutsling
ouf benz aopfe. einen peiBen 5ut an
ben EaBen, grpBe aber eepuBte StieFel
ouf Der 5tirn, cine buntle g9plte IN
ieinsr Sanb, ben unpermeibliden Hs1
a.nidtrm in ietnen 4ugen, stnen bros
beuben Bid tn fiuiierm SAnsigsn.
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1910-08-04

Den seebrteu 2uronirtben empfehle
i6 aIs pprsiisIihes 0iin9eruitteI feine
ites Sno6enmshl aus metHer neu elm
oeritteten OompftupdenmiihIe. auh
bin i'd, qeoen aerinoe 8ergiituns berett,
ben Serren Gunpptrtben, faIls es biz
fen lieber lit, ibrs sigeneu Snodsn gu
mahlsn.
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1910-08-04
Hie alte 0ei6iAte.

Sm ldbtif4en 6ofpital berridt uns
ier BEN AngefelIten tpisoer einnsoI belIt
GntriiRung cb bes i1nsn selieferten
GHsns. I'm Dienitcs Mbenb psigerten
~ " xnosfsussa bis lima p1redstte
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1910-08-04

SIR bidss Blntt tpurben ssiisrn bon
ben Cptilsrn 6. aiein &c Bro,
-. 435 Maes Gtrabe, foIgenh TEN.
perotur unttrFhieos resiftrirt:
Nm Dm Nm Nm
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1910-08-04

gS0rfeu lie ltd) Dpt oeU liluteH NIX
Ser, ben aItdren oeiien. Der Serr iiber
9oo uno 9ebeu iit2 2lanmerten lle
| iih an Die arelSe, Die. fDenn oea Ia
aes Summer oorilber iii. Der 0eg snr
eipiacu SeIigfeit iiHo2 llmidIangen
Iie oie arusiiire? 8Iefen iie bic Sellt.
aeu an ooer ionfen lie m bic anie nit
tmporoeitredten SoiRosn uno i6ldnz
gen Die superiihtIiteH arme Inn oas
anie Der &eiligenT
Bobin iie floben?
| 3u oen Sbiiren
gle itiefen, lie trompeltelt ile
l,tampften ales nieOer. iie eingen nit
ben ssduiten los - lIiir portparts -
mo hiuoms, binnus 5u ben 9biiren-
| 9enn bier aolt es - oas Se-
ben ober ben Soo.
llnb mir iinb bod uift iin Dsittel-
alter.
a)eon aebt sur Meiie aus bnnoert
G5riinoen. aber ouf Gbre uno 8eipll-
| len. man aebt ood, ri9t 5ur Weei'e, nm
l. aleid, su iterben.
| 8erpii,, man eebt inter onoernl
him, nm um einen ondoigen Cob 81
bitten -.
| csn 2emberg ilohen tie. 60 haitia
iloben iie nno 10 eiIia hatten iie es,
| ban iie Elm 9ubenb Weenihen nieoer'
Itraten Wsitnenideu - nm ibr Seber
| All retten, bier Dor ieinem AItar, oer
Serr lit iiber 2eben ,sab lob --
gber e.. bort, uor Sem SonoItGr.
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Coronado Followed Route

It is established beyond reason
able doubt as the lawyers learnedly
say, that Francisco Vasquez de Coro-
nado traversed the almost identical
route of the to be Santa Fe trail. 1t
possibly may be of sufficient interest
just here to explain that the writer Of
this devoted not less than fortnight
to the determining of this one point.
The Spaniard's brilliant sortie is pic
turesque in the annals of the new
world. He set out from Mexico CEN
turies ago to discover that tabled city
of magnificent glory and wealth of
which he had been told, expecting to
return with it's filthy lucre in his own
personal jeans. In the eastern part of
Kansas. probably in the fertile and
beautiful valley of the Kaw, he cnanced
upon an Indian village, and that was
his nearest approach to the brilliant
and splendid entrance into a great me-
tropolis that he had imaginatively pic
tured. Had he but deferred his little
jaunt 300 years without question the
KEYS Of the city of Topeka or of Kan
sas City would have been turned over
to him gratis and his wild wish would
have been partly fulfilled.
Coronado, escorted by a stupendous
coterie in full regalia, shook off the
dust of Santa Fe (now Mexico), and
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The Kansas Monuments

The manner in which this work has
been projected in Kansas is partfcu-
larly engaging. At the instigation OF
the Daughters OF the American Revo-
luton every school child in the sun
flower State gave one penny TO the
fund. The legislature appropriated a
modest sum for the good cause and the
Santa Fe railway transported the mon
uments free Of charge. Red granite
boulders from the quarries of Okla
homa, Weighing from 5 TO 1,600 pounds.
were appropriately inscribed in panel
effect. the remainder of the shaft, in
most cases, being left in the rough.
Boards of trade, chambers of commerce.
women's clubs. school boards and the
individual schools themselves parttci-
pated in impressive ceremonies at the
unveiling OF these monuments. Com
mfttees of old timers all along the
route were chosen TO go out and iden-
tify the trail and frequently they were
aided by the deep ruts still plainly to
be seen. It was notable event to see
one such committee, at Garden City,
Kan. composed of first settlers and
Uncle" Billy Fulton, the first man TO
lay down his blanket in the western
half of the state, speed over the old
trail in powerful automobile, en-
phasizing the striking contrast between
the Old and the New. Was II strange
that in the writer's mind there arose
at the sight Iho specter OF the old OK
team with its precious freight, toiling
westward across a bNStering prairie
at from 10 to 20 miles a day?
Little by little the familiar evidences
of famous trail are vanishing. The
old ruts are fast being obHterated by
torrential rains or the plow OF the hus-
bandman- Intersected by fences.
usurped by the inevitable locomotive,
or, more romantic still. traversed by
the great steam pIOw. the traces of the
trail are slipping from our sight. The
hardy pioneers have bequeathed to q
new generation the rich heritage. too
often spurneG. Bygones are never by
cones when we speak in the language
of the old trail ara
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crossed at Larned, Kan, where in those
days a government fort was main
tanned. This was a pretentious instf-
tuition and in that regime had a glory
all its own. I have visited this old
fort, situated several miles north of
the city of Larned. and it is now a
5000 acre wheat ranch, belonging to
the mayor of the city. He whirled me
out there in his automobile, and it
took hours to go over the place. The
well built buildings. all of solid stone.
are In as good condition as when first
erected. The parade ground is blank
eted with Kentucky blue grass
Near where Garden City, Kan. now
is there was a prairie dog town 40
miles IN breadth. and 1t took al least
two days to cross it. Garden City is
the whole west. and although its name
is widespread in the east it is but
little known on the Pacific coast. More
alfalfa seed is shipped from that city
than from any other point on earth.
1t, has the largest mule market in the
world. Its gigantic plants for pumping
the underfiow are the largest and most
successful known. Its beet sugar fac
tory, though not the largest, is one of.
the best in this country. Buffalo
Jones'" the man who hybridized the
buffalo and cattle. producing the
''cattalo, and a native citizen. of
Garden City, has been almost immor-
talized by Zane Grey in his late book,
The Last of the Plainsmen." mean
ing JONES' Jones was for a long time
custodian of the Yellowstone national
paHk. He has a ranch in Arizona where
he is still experimenting with his cat
talo and his Persian sheep.
few miles east of Larned is Paw
nee rock. where there was more blood
shed than at any other point on the
trail Here the Indians would secrete
themselves in ambush and make a kill
Kit Carson had fearful fight with
them here. being held prisoner on the
rock for days, finally coming off vic
torious in the end. At one point on
the trail during the Mexican war a
fierce battle took place within Kansas
territory, but near the Colorado line
A beautifully carved Damascus blade
was found just a few years ago on the
scene of the fray. Bents Fort was a
haven to many traveller on the trail
and an important stopping point The
patrol exercised by the United States
government during the latter half of
the life of the trail ended at this west
ern point, and beyond that the pioneer
had no protection. u s. Grant rode
guard duty on this long stretch across
Kansas prior to the civil war.
The traffic on the trail was in full
blast in 1881. In that year Council
Grove established itself as an important
refitting center. Burlingame became
recognized stopping place, where per-
haps several days would be passed
before the journey was resumed. If
we take representative year the mag
nitude of the commerce over this trail
may be estimated. In 1S47 1884 wa gons
left Kansas City for Santa Fe over the
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Sebastian de Capparicio of Spain
turned the first wheel of any kind on
the American continent when he drove
the first OK cart in the western hemi-
sphere. His was a crude, chariot like
affair, the body of the cart like an
uncouth basket or cage, the wheels
spokeless and cut out of a gigantic tree
huge, wobbly, circular slabs that
creaked sonorously on the wooden axle
trees. The gifted pen, starting with
this momentous historical event as
nucleus, might write epically of what
the wheel in all its uses has wrought
since then. Commerce, industry and
I've eras all down the worlds history;
and the trail days, the epoch making
pioneer days of this vast western
country. have passed into history as the
prairie schooner era, following the
rotary achievement of the ambitious
Spaniard.
The writer has expended almost un-
limited time and effort in the endeavor
to establish the early history of the
Santa Fe trail. In this research both
termini of the trail have been visited.
Kansas City has it's terminal appropri-
ately marked with a bronze tablet.
Along the levee in St Louis a few of
the old buildings remain where mer-
chandise was packed and shipped. Mile
after mile OF the route 1 have pounded
along, drawn by the iron horse over the
track of the trail and from the car
window its ruts were still discernible.
Way down in the southwest corner
of Kansas. far from the encroaching
railroad, one may behold the ruts of
the trail sunk so deeply into the brow
Of hill as II dips down to cross the
Cimarron river that miniature ar
royo has been formed. This you see as
you journey due east from Richfeld
behind your patient plodding ponies.
And invariably the traveller, whoever
he be. stops and thinks while. Then.
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too, on one of those mythical autumn
days with its
Mist the far horizon.
The infinite. tender sky,
The ripe, rich tint of the cornfelds
And the Wild goose sailing high
l have tramped over many miles of
the trail west from Newton, Kan, just
to feel the indescribapIe thrill born of
looking backward through clear eyes
that see as they saw who traversed
those same ruts three quarters of
century ago.
In historic, medieval old Santa Fe,
city OF 1900 population but with
scant 1000 Americans, / have nosed
about among the revered relics of that
glorious time when goods from "the
far east" poured in interminably over
the dusty trail in a conglomerate
stream of bull whackers' oxen,
mules and a personnel of 10 nationali-
ties escorting the canvas covered
schooners travelling in gigantic cara
vans" of ofttimes hundreds of wagons
together. There today is the same
tanned. The structure is wholly unal-
tered, and its plastered adobe walls, to
the listening ear rightly attuned, will
tell strange tales of barter and blooG-
shed, gayety and gambling, and all
the curious admixture of an extreme
frontier town meIlowed by its absolute
foreign setting. For Santa Fe is Span
ish, though seemingly Mexican town.
There is much of the genuine Spanish
blood flowing there, while the native
Mexican element is several grades bet
ter than the "greaser," familiar to us
in the working crews or gangs on
northern railways.
One can easily see how extremely
difficult 1t must be to fathom the ear
lier secrets of the old trail-and 1t held
many Yet from the very first ven
lures of those intrepid adventurers who
sailed westward from the then from
tier, the Mississippi valley country
down to the time when the exact route
of the Santa Fe trail was esta ablished,
there runs an unbroken historical cord
of rare significance. 1t is fact that
all Adventures known to have dared
those plains traversed almost exactly
the same course. Thus a definite trail
can be authenticated that antedates the
oregon trail by hundreds of years. Let
us see:
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Famous Quitting Stations

Independence, Mo, and L cave :
worth, Kan, now, as then, a United
States fort, were the accepted fitting
out stations for the traffickers on the
trail The two tributary branches oc-
casioned by this ramincation had their
confluence at Wilmington, Wabaunse.
county, Kan, making that an ex-
tremely important point Taking the
Santa Fe route today, or the San
Taffy," as 1t is Familiarity spoken of in
railroad lingo, from the moment you
enter Kansas on the east you ride for
500 miles over the original track of
the trail, today rock ballasted and
spiked 1t followed the high divide"
of the prairie, which everywhere in
Kansas is quite rolling, between the
valleys of the river Kaw and the Ar
kansas. The trail kept close to the
latter stream, that water might be had
in plenty. One stretch of Go miles was
encountered, however, where no water
was to be obtained. beginning where
the. town of Cimarron was left behind
until the river by that name was
reached, SIS miles southwest.
The "Cfmarron CROSSING" just west
of the notorious Dodge City was well
known and famed way point on the
Journey. Sometimes 1t took as much
as a day to get a small caravan over
the treacherous sands of the Arkansas
river at this point. Another famous
crossing where the same river had to
be forded was at Elm creek. The
Cimarron river, in the extreme south
west corner of Kansas. was at most
seasons of the year dry and thus easily
s~rse7 Again the river had to be
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an Old NfLSJION WHICH CTANDS REOIDE
The SANTA re- TRAIL

bells that pointed the way to the mis-
sions in the olden days. Down in the
southwest we are equally busy in pre-
serving the traces OF the old Santa Fe
trail, q pioneer highway rivaling in
Importance the Oregon trail, other
wise known as the northern route and
made famous by Kit Carson.
There were but two transccntinental
pathways in the days preceding the
coming Of the railway. It might bet
ter be said that travellers were limited
to a choice between two passes over
the great divide. There were, of course,
several tributary trails that fed the
Oregon and the Santa Fe from various
eastern ramifcations. The forty-niners
Lad three ways OF reaching California.
Some rushed across the continent, Sc
lecting either the Oregon trail over the
northern pass or the Santa Fe trail
across the plains and the southern
pass, this choice depending a good deal
on the season OF the year The south
ern route, crossing the mountains by
way of the Ration range, was less ia
tiguing, though longer yet having the
advantage of being temperate in win
ter. This, the Santa Fe trail, had by
far the heavier traffic, at least as far
as Santa Fe, as not less than 5000 to
Il, 600 wagons passed over 1t each way
yearly. Many gold seekers, however,
made the passage around the Horn, spe-
cial expeditions fitting out at PhiIadel-
phia, Boston and New York for that
purpose. 1t is said that these vessels
became no better than the infamous
weather that was encountered much Of
the way all hands. passengers included,
were forced to the rigging and the
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Santa Fe trail. Had all of these prairie
schooners been ranged end to end in
a single line that line would have been,
223 miles long. These nearly 10000
wagons were drawn by 9S,S4O mules
and oxen. carrying merchandise weigh
ing 59,3O4,00O pouuds-in one year
alone.
And today they are marking it, Al
most at the eleventh hour. more than
three-quarters of a century after that
great artery of pioneer progress was
opened up to the commerce of the new
western world. landmarks for the pres
ervation of the riginaI route of the
trail are being placed from one end of
Kansas to the other. In Missouri. and
particularly in Kansas City. bronze tab
let's are used on all buildings fronting
the old highway. In New Mexico still
quite virgin, no special commemorative
work has been undertaken
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headed eastward and north Unques-
and mountains, guiltless of oasis of
water or shade, the definite course of
the Santa Fe trail. AS he viewed the
impossible canyon of the Colorado on
his return trip, having taken full adj
vantage of the stopover privileges then
in vogue, he calculated with awe: The
earth is here cut in two!''
Then for two centuries the great
prairies lay asleep. The antelope and
the buffalo were undsturbed. But in
ana, and while that state was in the
hands Of the French, permanent
route was spoken of across the great
American desert" Some French trad
ers, starting from the. upper Missis-
sippi. made their way across to the
Mexican mountains and with purpose
they followed the way taken by De
Coronado, as apparently his route was
known to them. 1t is Captain Amos
Stoddard who tells of this. These
Frenchmen opened a store in Santa Fe
and traded with the Mexicans and In
dians, particularly those from the
pueblos and communal villages, they
being of somewhat higher type than
the red men of the plains and noun
tains. Stoddard prophesied commerce
of vast magnitude over this trail. The
balance sheets of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railway today fulfill his
prediction.
In 1904 a. man set out from historic.
romantic old Kaskaskia, on the west
bank Of the Father of Waters (today
the last remaining dwellings of this
famous village SO Fascinating in pioneer
history are slowly tumbling into the
swirling waters beneath. the village
site being now almost wholly washed
away by the undermining river), and
on foot, alone, insufficiently armed.
turned his face toward the white adobe
walls of Santa Fe, announcing that he
was going to visit another world. And
he did. He got to Santa Fe and per-
ished miserably, after conquering un-
speakable dangers and hardships in the
1000 miles of his lonely journey He
bequeathed but one thing of value to
history, that being that quite without
studied effort he adhered to the course
across the plains laid down by Coro-
nado and later by the French traders.
IN THE OLD TRAIL DAYS
We cross the prairies of old
Our fathers crossed the sea,
To make the west as they the east
The homestead of the free.
Quite naturally the Santa Fe trail
had two eastern starting points. as it's
commerce was drawn from a wide and
promiscuous area. Furs and like COM
modities came from the far northern
reaches hundreds of miles down the
Mississippi river. FreiRht and n,an.-