A DON’T-MISS STOP ON THE SANTA FE TRAIL
Aug 31, 2021
2 minutes
BY LINDA WOMMACK
mong the iconic routes of the frontier era, the Santa Fe Trail marks its bicentennial this year (see feature article, P. 36). Pioneered in 1821 by American trader William Becknell, it served mainly as a commercial thoroughfare between western Missouri and Santa Fe in what was then the Mexican province of Nuevo México and in 1850 was organized as New
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