Santa Fe Trail

The Santa Fe and Oregon trails helped people avoid the formidable Rocky Mountains. By providing established routes that circumvented the most challenging terrains, these trails facilitated westward expansion and migration. Travelers could navigate around the mountains, making the journey to new territories more accessible. Ultimately, these trails played a crucial role in connecting the eastern United States with the western frontier.

The people who traveled along the Oregon Trail, the Santa Fe Trail, the California Trail, and the Old Spanish Trail were called "overlanders" because they typically journeyed overland rather than relying on waterways for transportation. These trails represented significant routes for settlers, traders, and pioneers moving westward in search of new opportunities, land, and resources during the 19th century. The term emphasizes their reliance on land routes and the challenges they faced in navigating diverse terrains and climates.

Pioneers made their own clothing so they brought cloth to sew, needles, thread, pins, scissors, and leather to fix worn‐out shoes. Much of the clothing was made of canvas or calico.

They wanted religious freedom because they were being persecuted in the east.

United States of America. Admitted to the Union on 6th January 1912 as the 47th State

the development of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, 1868-1874

Pioneers made their own clothing so they brought cloth to sew, needles, thread, pins, scissors, and leather to fix worn‐out shoes. Much of the clothing was made of canvas or calico.

The phone number of the Santa Fe Trail Center is: 316-285-2054.

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They were very unfriendly and harsh. They didn't want Americans passing by their land. Later on, as they got used to it and realized this group of Americans weren't that bad and the Indians began to start trade with the Americans, as well as the Spanish.

The Santa Fe Trail helped the Southwest become settled and it made it easy to invade Mexico during the Mexican American War.

The phone number of the Santa Fe Trail Museum is: 620-335-5220.

Merchants traveled the Santa Fe Trail in wagons pulled by mules.

Gregg reported in Commerce of the Prairies that 350 persons traveled it in 1843. Lt. Col. William Gilpin's register shows 12,000 persons between 1849–1859. The register at Council Grove, Kansas, in 1860 showed 3,514 persons.

The wagons carried the food such as flour, sugar, bacon, and coffee. The trade items were also in the wagons.

It was named after the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico

The cast of The Santa Fe Trail - 1923 includes: Elias Bullock Joe De La Cruz Neva Gerber Ned Jarvis Maria Laredo Wilbur McGaugh Jack Perrin as Kit Carson Jim Welch

Rattlesnakes were a problem for people traveling the Santa Fe Trail.

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