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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. ....
100 years ago. while picketing outside the white house. thrown into a work house prison. here s what the women say they endured. their words laid out by the turning point suffragette memorial. one man yelled, the damned suffrager, i will put you through hell. they pulled me down a hall. they twisted my arms above my head, lifted me and slammed my back twice over a bench. they took me alone to the male area and told me i was alone and the men could do what they pleased with me. dorothy day, back over the bench, cried to us for help. we tried but we could not get out of the grasp of the men. they threw mrs. louis doubled over like a sack of flour and her head struck the iron bed which knocked her out. we all thought she was dead and wept but later we revived her. she became desperately ill with chest pains and vomiting. we called for help but the guards nearby ignored us. when i continued to call my colleague, guards cuffed my ....