The Santa Fe Trail turns 200
Garden City Telegram
The use of the Santa Fe Trail 200 years ago became more popular after William Becknell, a pioneer farmer from Franklin, Mo., and five others made a trip to sell goods.
Becknell s story and the popularization of the trail were discussed at the final spring Finney County Historical Society and Museum History at High Noon event on Wednesday.
Linda Peters, president of the Wagon Bed Springs chapter of the Santa Fe Trail Association, gave the presentation.
Beckness wasn t the first person to go out on the Santa Fe Trail for trade, Peters said, but he did it at the right time after Mexico gained their independence from Spain and traders were welcome.
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Museum to hosts programs on Santa Fe Trail
Garden City Telegram
Guests attending one or both of the final two spring presentations in the Finney County Historical Society’s free history lecture series will learn about the 200th anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail.
The programs are set for noon April 14 and 7 p.m. April 20 in the Mary Regan Conference Room of the Finney County Museum in Garden City. Admission is free and access is through the north museum entrance.
The April 14 speaker is Linda Peters, Lakin, a Kearny County Historical Society officer and leader in the area chapter of the Santa Fe Trail Association. The speaker April 20 will be Dr. Lee Oliva, Woodston, retired Fort Hays State University history professor and author of numerous books about the trail, Kansas history and the frontier.
On the Santa Fe Trail: 1821-2021
The bicentennial of the National Historic Trail is a great reason to hit the road and rediscover why it is the West’s original “Mother Road.”
When you get right down to it, almost every trail ever blazed was for profit. Despite all the glory associated with them, the lure of money was behind the Chisholm Trail (first for trade goods, then for selling longhorns in Kansas)and the California and Klondike trails (to find goldfields) and the like. The Santa Fe Trail, on the other hand, never even thought about fame it was all about money.
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Two Kansas City boys hiked the famous road west in 1874 to make their mark in the cattle trade.
The Arkansas River flowed by the original Fort Lyon complex, American Indian teepees and livestock. The river flooded the first fort in 1866, causing the second fort to be built near Las Animas in 1867.
– Courtesy of The Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-19367 –
The Santa Fe Trail, a vital commercial route, developed international trade between the United States and Mexico, fostered commerce on the Plains, served as a military road and contributed to westward expansion in the United States. William Becknell and five men, desiring a profitable outcome, began a momentous journey September 1, 1821, from Franklin, Missouri, and in November reached Santa Fe in what was then northern Mexico. Becknell’s venture was lucrative, and commerce significantly increased along the Santa Fe Trail, which evolved and divided into the Cimarron and Mountain Route
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