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The Santa Fe Trail Scenic and Historic Byway is a 188-mile (303 km) National Scenic Byway and Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway located in Prowers, Bent, Otero, and Las Animas counties, Colorado, USA. The byway follows the Santa Fe National Historic Trail through southeastern Colorado and connects to the 381-mile (613 km) Santa Fe Trail Scenic ...
English: Map of Santa Fe Trail-Date: 30 January 2012: Source: ... Santa Fe Trail; Taos Downtown Historic District; William Becknell; William S. Messervy; User ...
The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri, with Santa Fe, New Mexico.Pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell, who departed from the Boonslick region along the Missouri River, the trail served as a vital commercial highway until 1880, when the railroad arrived in Santa Fe.
Approach to Bent's Old Fort, Colorado. Wetlands protecting the north trail. The adobe fort quickly became the center of the Bent, St. Vrain Company's expanding trade empire, which included Fort Saint Vrain to the north and Fort Adobe to the south, along with company stores in New Mexico at Taos and Santa Fe.
Rourke Ranch Historic District: September 21, 2000 : Comanche National Grassland: La Junta: 28: Santa Fe Trail Mountain Route Trail Segment-Delhi Vicinity I: Santa Fe Trail Mountain Route Trail Segment-Delhi Vicinity I: June 8, 2015
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The Trapper's Trail or Trappers' Trail is a north-south path along the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains that links the Great Platte River Road at Fort Laramie and the Santa Fe Trail at Bent's Old Fort. Along this path there were a number of trading posts, also called trading forts. [1]
Bent's New Fort was a historic fort and trading post along the banks of the Arkansas River in what is now Bent County, Colorado, about nine miles west of Lamar, [3] [4] on the Mountain Route branch of the Santa Fe Trail. [5]