Furs, gold, and silver were traded on the Santa Fe Trail.

Santa Fe Trail

No, the Oregon Trail began in the 1830s and 1840s. By the 1880s, the Oregon Trail had long since ended.

Santa Fe is the capital city in New Mexico.

The Fort Smith-Santa Fe Trail, also know as the Gregg Route. The route was pioneered by Josiah Gregg, a Santa Fe trader who went from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Fort Smith, Arkansas through the Indian Territory during March of 1840. The goldseekers used this route in 1849 on their way to California.

They used the Santa Fe trail to get from Independence, Missouri to get to Santa Fe so they can trade. The Santa Fe Trail was a route with water and a small amount of food for the people.

The Old Spanish Trail began at Santa Fe (now New Mexico) and ended at Los Angeles. It was a path for Spanish explorers and traders beginning in the mid- 1500s, and reaching its widest use during the last years of greater Mexico. from about 1830 to 1848. It was still in use even after the majority of its territory was ceded to the US in 1848, following the Mexican American War.

The Santa Fe Trail (aka, Santa Fe Road) was an ancient passageway used regularly after 1821 by merchant-traders from Missouri who took manufactured goods to Santa Fe to exchange for furs and other items available there. Mexican traders also provided caravans going to western Missouri in this international trade.

A trail from Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In 1906, Santa Fe Railway purchased this land grant to grow trees for railroad ties. The wood was too soft so the Santa Fe Land Improvement Company was formed to sell country estates.

around 20,000 people died working on the transcontinental railroad

It opened up the land to Anglos and Californios to trade with the states. It also was the route the army followed to invade Mexico during the Mexican American War.

Santa Fe Trail

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Independence Missouri marks the beginning of the santa fe, Oregon and California trails. To commemorate this history, every year there is a celebration in Independence called SANTACALIGON. There is food, carnival rides, and crafts.

I know this to be fact because I grew up there, and I studied Missouri history as part of my cirriculum in school.

Dodge City is the Kansas city that began as a lawless old-west town along the Santa Fe Trail.

MapQuest estimates the driving time as 7 hours and 24 minutes.

The Mormon Pioneer Trail is a 1,300-mile travelled by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1846 to 1868. The Mormon Trail extends from Nauvoo, Illinois on the Mississipi river, passing through Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Eastern Utah to Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Mormon pioneer movement began in 1846 when, after having been driven once again by mob violence from their settled home, the Saints decided to establish a new home for the church outside the established boundaries of the United States. The trail was used for more than 20 years, until the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.

Among the emigrants were the Mormon handcart pioneers of 1856-1860. Two of the handcart companies, led by James G. Willie and Edward Martin, met disaster on the trail when they departed late and were caught by heavy snowstorms in Wyoming.

Once the Mormons arrived in Salt Lake, some were asked by the Prophet Brigham Young to go settle other places such as Genoa, Nevada; St. George, Utah; Cardston, Alberta, Canada and many other settlements in the territory of Deseret.

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