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In 1803, the United States purchased the land which encompassed the present state of Colorado with the Louisiana Purchase and explorers came to the area to survey the land. [3] The trail was an important trade route for fur trappers and traders in the North American fur trade from about 1820 and into the Pikes Peak Gold Rush beginning 1859. [1]
Pueblo Peak is part of the Taos Mountains which are a subset of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and it ranks as the 27th-highest summit in New Mexico. [1] The mountain is located nine miles (14 km) northeast of the city of Taos and six miles southwest of Wheeler Peak, the highest point in the state.
A key trail into Taos was "The Old Taos Trail", which began at the Bent's Fort on the Arkansas River in Colorado, west of the Spanish Peaks, through Sangre de Cristo Pass (west of Walsenburg, Colorado), Old La Veta Pass and into Questa area (NM 522/NM38 area). [8] [9] It came into Taos at either Taos Pueblo road or half a mile west on Couse Hill.
A historical marker memorializing the trail, located on County Road 520 in Huerfano County, Colorado. The Taos Mountain Trail was the historic pathway for trade and business exchanges between agrarian Taos and the Great Plains from pre-history (1100 A.D.) through the Spanish Colonial period and into the time of the European and American presence.
Vallecito Mountain is part of the Taos Mountains which are a subset of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and it ranks as the 14th-highest summit in New Mexico. [1] [4] The mountain is located 12 miles northeast of the town of Taos and three miles west-southwest of Wheeler Peak, the highest point in the state.
Ute Mountain is a free-standing, dacitic, extinct Pliocene volcanic cone set within the Taos Plateau volcanic field. [8] Ute Mountain has a base diameter of five miles and topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 2,500 feet (760 meters) above the surrounding sagebrush-covered basalt plains. [ 2 ]
According to the historic marker placed at the pass, a band of Apaches, the Flecha de Palo, lived in the plains east of the mountains in 1706. [1] A common theory for the name of the pass is based upon a Taos Pueblo tradition for shooting arrows into a tree at a mountain pass following a successful buffalo hunt. [2]
For the Utes, the trail and pass was used to transport salt from Bayou Salade, the salt valley of South Park, to Santa Fe and Taos for trade. [5] The Ute's name for the pass was El Puerto del Sierra Almagre, which means "Doorway to the Red Earth Mountains". [6] Ute Trail became a wagon road in the 1860s providing transport to Leadville mining ...