Santa Fe Trail
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMZUP_sora-kansas-creek_McPherson-KS.html
Near this spot August 16, 1825the treaty was made with theKansas Indiansfor the Right of Wayof the trail
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM101A_cow-creek-station_Lyons-KS.html
One mile south is the hand-dug wel that served the U.S. Cavalry and Santa Fe Trail travelers in the 1860s.
For five days in July, 1864, 600 Indians besieged a trading post near the well and a wagon train nearby. When the attackers tried to overrun the po…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM101C_santa-fe-trail_Lyons-KS.html
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[Part of the markers denoting the route of the trail]
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM107Q_santa-fe-and-chisholm-trails_Canton-KS.html
1822-1872 Santa Fe Trail1867-1872 Chisholm Trail[trail maps through local area]
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11C6_hogbacks_Las-Vegas-NM.html
Interstate 25 cuts through dipping strata that form hogback ridges between the Great Plains and the south end of the Rocky Mountains. The Santa Fe Trail from here to Santa Fe, followed a natural valley eroded in less resistant strata between the mountains t…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11C7_fort-union-national-monument_Las-Vegas-NM.html
Once the largest post in the Southwest, Fort Union was established to control the Jicarilla Apaches and Utes, to protect the Santa Fe Trail, and to serve as a supply depot for other New Mexico forts. The arrival of the railroad and the pacification of the r…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11C8_watrous_Watrous-NM.html
The Mountain Branch and the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail meet at Watrous. This important spot on the Trail was first known at La Junta, "junction" in Spanish. In 1879, with the coming of the railroad, it was named for Samuel B. Watrous, a prominent…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11C9_santa-fe-trail_Watrous-NM.html
Opened by William Becknell in 1821, the Santa Fe Trail became the major trade route to Santa Fe from Missouri River towns. The two main branches, the Cimarron Cutoff and the Mountain Branch, joined at Watrous. Travel over the Trail ceased with the coming of…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11CD_point-of-rocks-the-dorsey-mansion_Springer-NM.html
This is a two sided markerSide A:Point of RocksPoint of Rocks was a major landmark along the Santa Fe Trail. Located in Jicarilla Apache country, it was near here that the party of Santa Fe merchant J.W. White was attacked in 1849. Kit Carson was a member o…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11CF_clayton_Clayton-NM.html
Trade caravans and homesteaders traveling the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail passed near here. Clayton was founded in 1887 and named for the son of cattleman and ex-Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, one of its developers. It became a major livestock shippin…