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| Santa Fe Trail: Quick Trail Index
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New Franklin, MO:
the trail began in
MISSOURI |
On the prairie
how it was in
KANSAS |
The old Santa Fe Trail
intercepts new highways
Also: COLORADO |
Santa Fe, NM
the end of the trail in
NEW MEXICO |
Reenactment - April 1999
Following the old Santa Fe Trail through southern Johnson County, KS |
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Wagon |
Heading west |
| Drawings and Animations |
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Binoculars |
Compass |
Horse-drawn wagon |
On the trail |
| The Santa Fe Trail began in New Franklin, MO (1821) |
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Short history of
Franklin, MO (1992) |
Short history of
Booneville, MO (1992) |
The trail is marked
New Salem (1997) |
Trail ruts behind Sibley
Cemetery, near Ft. Osage |
Stay in Boonville at the Rivercene Bed & Breakfast
Stay in Arrow Rock at the Down Over Inn Bed & Breakfast
Ft. Osage, Missouri - read the
history of Fort Osage, historic site
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Soldier at Ft. Osage
(July 1997) |
Front of Fort Osage
(July 1997) |
Lewis & Clark Sign
at Fort Osage |
Missouri River
from Fort porch (1997) |
| Independence, Missouri |
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National Frontier Trails Center (NFTC) |
Pioneer woman & child statue (NFTC) |
Lewis-Bingham-Waggoner Estate sign |
Lewis-Bingham-Waggoner Estate |
| Johnson County, Kansas - Slideshow, with side trip north to Fort Leavenworth (Leavenworth Co Slideshow) |
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Land west of Missouri belonged to Native Americans |
Olathe: Mahaffie farmstead |
Olathe: Mahaffie stage coach stop |
Ft. Leavenworth: Buffalo soldier monument |
| Buffalo Soldiers | Gardner, and Edgerton, Kansas |
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Buffalo soldier
re-enactor |
Buffalo soldiers
helped protect the trail |
Gardner: Oregon & Santa Fe Trails divide |
Edgerton:
Lanesfiled School |
| Baldwin and Black Jack, Kansas |
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Baldwin City:
Log cabin |
Baldwin City:
historical marker |
Near Black Jack:
on the Santa Fe Trail |
Black Jack:
ruts in the field |
| Burlingame and Simmons Point, Kansas |
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Burlingame wide main street |
Burlingame cemetery
Civil War statue |
Burlingame cemetery
Elizabeth Baily died 1869 |
Simmons Point
stagecoach relay station |
Council Grove and Dodge City, Kansas
Where to spend the night in Dodge City
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Council Grove
Madonna of the Trail |
Council Grove
Trail marker |
Dodge City:
The Cowboy Capital |
Dodge City:
cattle drive memorial |
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The photo of the Santa Fe Trail "ruts" west of town actually shows
human-made ruts running up the hill to a marker. The real ruts are wide
grassy swales running perpendicular to the people path. Many folks have
walked right through them not realizing they crossed the trail on the
way to the top of the hill. The site is now better marked, with improved signs and a
handicapped-accessible walkway. (Kansas Heritage Center) |
Dodge City:
Longhorn statue |
Dodge City:
Not the ruts! |
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| COLORADO: Bent's Old Fort |
NEW MEXICO: nearing the end of the trail | Fort Union
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Bent's Old Fort |
Wagon Mound, NM |
Ft. Union: Bachelor quarters |
Ft. Union: Barracks |
| NEW MEXICO: Fort Union | Santa Fe NEW MEXICO |
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Ft. Union |
Ft. Union: Old wagon |
Monument, The Plaza, Santa Fe NM |
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