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Travelers faced many hardships along the Santa Fe Trail. Native American attacks and lack of food and water made the trail very risky. Weather conditions, like huge lightning storms, gave the travelers difficulty.
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www.newmexico.org/learn/timeline/sf_trail.php
www.newmexico.org/learn/timeline/sf_trail.php
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Welcome to the Official Website of the Santa Fe Trail Association! (SFTA) ... While most of the terrain the Santa Fe Trail traversed in Kansas was relatively flat or rolling prairie, passage through it was not without its hardships.
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www.santafetrail.org/states/kansas.php
www.santafetrail.org/states/kansas.php
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On the Santa Fe Trail, a collection of first-hand accounts by nineteenth-century overlanders, offers an intensely personal ... "Provides humor and human interest as well as describing the dangers, hardships, and joys of the crossing. The reader will have an excellent understanding of the daily routine of trail life."--C.
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www.kansaspress.ku.edu/simont.html
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Easier - During the 1800s, the Santa Fe Trail took people and goods back and forth between Independence, Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. It took about 8 weeks to travel on the trail. There were many dangers such as storms and attacks from Indians and bandits.
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42explore2.com/santafe.htm
42explore2.com/santafe.htm
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Fort Dodge - Dodge City - Cimarron Area of the Santa Fe Trail ... Across this part of the trail, this was not the main concern, Indian Attacks took it's place at the top of the list of hardships faced by the wagon trains.
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www.santafetrailresearch.com/main-route/fort-dodge.html
www.santafetrailresearch.com/main-route/fort-dodge.html
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Best Viewed With a Laptop in a Trail Rut!; "Santa Fe Trail Sites - ©Microsoft TerraServer"; An Innovative Way to Look at ... The Santa Fe Trail got it's start in 1821, with an advertisement in the Missouri Intelligencer by William Becknell, seeking men willing to join and invest in a trading expedition to the west.
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www.santafetrailresearch.com/
www.santafetrailresearch.com/
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The Santa Fe Trail was one of those natural routes sometimes found between countries far separated. The physical conformation of the Southwest made this road a commercial highway. They were carried to Chihuahua and east into prison, where they suffered many hardships and indignities at the hands of the Mexicans.
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www.kansasgenealogy.com/history/santa_fe_trail.htm
www.kansasgenealogy.com/history/santa_fe_trail.htm
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Information about the Santa Fe Trail that connected Missouri with northern Mexico ... The Santa Fe Trail stirs imaginations as few other historic trails can. For 60 years, the Trail was one thread in a web of international trade routes. It influenced economies as far away as New York and London.
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sangres.com/history/santafetrail/index.htm
sangres.com/history/santafetrail/index.htm
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As the area developed a new town sprang up across the Arkansas River in February 1869 called Las Animas City. A bridge was built across the river and travel along the Santa Fe Trail made a major shift to the south side.
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www.santafetrailscenicandhistoricbyway.org/boggsville.h...
www.santafetrailscenicandhistoricbyway.org/boggsville.html
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