Track of Santa Fe
The Santa Fe Trail is a historical American track of the 19th century through the south-west of the North America connecting the Missouri with Santa-Fe to the New Mexico. Borrowed the first time in 1821 by William Becknell, it was used like an important shopping and military street until the arrival of the railway for Santa Fe in 1880. At the beginning, road for the international business between the the United States and the Mexico, it served for the American invasion of 1846 of the New Mexico during the américano-Mexican Guerre.
After acquisition by the United States of the South-west of North America, the road helped to open the area with the development and colonization, playing a vital part in the American expansion on the lately acquired territories. The road is celebrated today by the National Park Service like the Santa National Fe Historic Trail . A highway which follows about the layout of the old way through the Colorado and the north of New Mexico is called the Santa Fe Trail National Scenic Byway .
Route
The Eastern point of the track is in the center of the Missouri, in the town of Franklin, in the north of the river Missouri.Arrow Rock'n'roll, after which it followed roughly the road off present-day U.S. Road 24. It passed north off Marshall, through Lexington to Strong Osage, then to Independence. Independence was also one off the historic " jumping off points" for the Oregon and California Trail S.
West off Independence in the State off Kansas, it roughly followed the road off U.S. Road 56 to the town off Olathe. The section off the trail between Independence and Olathe was also used by emigrating one the California and Oregon Trails, which branched off to the northwest near Gardner, Kansas.
From Olathe, the trail passed through the towns off Baldwin City and Council Grove, then swung east off McPherson to the town off Lyons. West off Lyons the trail followed nearly the road off present-day Highway 56 to Great Bend, where it encountered the Arkansas To rivet. Branches off the trail followed both sides off to rivet upstream to Dodge City and Garden City.
West off Garden City in southwestern Kansas the trail has complex network off branches. One off the branches continued to follow the Arkansas upstream in southeastern Colorado to the town off Junta. At Junta, the trail continued south into New Mexico City to Fort Union At Watrous. With dramatization off life one the road was made into has motion picture in 1940, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey and Ronald Reagan.
Cimarron Cutoff
The other hand branch cut southwest to the valley off the Cimarron River near the town off Ulysses and Elkhart then continued toward Timbers City to Clayton, joining up with northern branch At Fort Union. From Watrous, the reunited branches continued southward to Santa Fe.This road has been designated leaves off has National Scenic Byway. -->
See too
- Strong National Larned Historic Site
- Bent' S Old Extremely National Historic Strong Site
- Union National Monument
External bonds
- National Park Service: Santa Fe Trail
- Trails West Maps: Choice of roads
- 2004 Santa Fe Trail Rendezvous
- Flying the Santa Fe Trail
- Pioneer Trails from US Land Surveys
- TerraServer Aerial photograph At Points off Rock'n'rolls Mesa New Mexico City
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