Organizers say they need all that time to include all that needs to be remembered about the history of Santa Fe.

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Most of the buildings in Santa Fe are low and earth colored, a mixture of Spanish and native styles.

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The Santa Fe Trail began in the state of Missouri, the nineteenth century gateway to the wild and largely unexplored West.

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Some of these findings were presented recently at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Santa Fe,New Mexico.

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This year's show in Santa Fe took place over four days in March at the city's convention center and nearby hotels.

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In two thousand five Santa Fe was named a UNESCO Creative City -- the first American city to get that honor.

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With the coming of Mexican independence, the Santa Fe Trail became the major trade link between the two countries.

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The National Park Service says that in eighteen twenty-two, trade along the Santa Fe Trail totaled fifteen thousand dollars.

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"We try to do something outside ' cause we live in Santa Fe and we live right in the mountains.

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A stone marker shows the spot where the Santa Fe Trail ended in the city's historic central plaza.

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A force known as the Army of the West used the Santa Fe Trail to protect American traders.

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This week on our program, we take you to a city in the American Southwest: Santa Fe,New Mexico.

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On Tuesday his Berkshire Hathaway company agreed to buy the nation's second-largest railroad, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe.

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The area surrounding the Santa Fe Trail included the hunting grounds of the Cheyenne, the Kiowa,the Comanche, the Arapaho and the Apache.

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Magazines in recent years have listed Santa Fe among the best places to live in the United States.

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A businessman named William Becknell believed he could earn a lot of money by moving trade goods from Missouri to Santa Fe.

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The area of the Santa Fe Trail around Fort Union was also involved in the American Civil War.

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All the jewelry makers we spoke to in March at Bead Fest Santa Fe agreed that the recession had affected their businesses.

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But Santa Fe has a longer history of serving as a capital city than any of the other capitals of the fifty states.

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Early in eighteen fifty, Texas sent a representative to Santa Fe to take control of the government.

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Wagons traveled the Santa Fe Trail from eighteen twenty-two until a railroad replaced it in eighteen seventy-nine.

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Santa Fe was the capital of the Spanish kingdom of New Mexico beginning in sixteen ten.

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Whichever kind of animal pulled the wagons, moving along the Santa Fe Trail was generally unexciting.

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The government built a series of bases in the New Mexico territory to protect the settlers and goods moving along the Santa Fe Trail.

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Mules were faster. For example, in eighteen fifty-seven a stagecoach pulled by six mules took twenty to twenty-five days to travel from Independence,Missouri,to Santa Fe.

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The seat of government in Santa Fe for the Spanish, the Mexicans and the American territory was a building called the Palace of the Governors.

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Stephen Kearny had seized Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico, without firing a shot.

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Union forces defeated them on the Santa Fe Trail at Glorietta Pass in New Mexico.

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The trail ended about one thousand two hundred kilometers away, in Santa Fe.

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