It also used the trail to take control of an area that is now New Mexico and part of California.

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

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In the next four years, more than one-and-a-half-million cattle were moved north over the Chisholm trail to Kansas.

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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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The Indians walked what was later called the "Trail of Tears" to a new homeland in Oklahoma.

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

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A comet is a huge ball of frozen gas and dust that often releases a long trail of material as it nears the sun.

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It went up and up. I followed the trail for several hundred meters more until I came to the mouth of a large cave.

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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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In nineteen nineteen, he published another collection, called "Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp."

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By eighteen-sixty-two, the trail was the main supply line for Union forces in the Southwest.

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It was a trail that would lead him straight to Henderson Creek and his friends.

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His difficult fight to protect his cattle on the long trail was an exciting story.

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

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Cattlemen began moving their herds up this trail across the Oklahoma territory and into Kansas.

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We cannot find them. Today I call upon you to travel a new trail.

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And the trail took the cowboys over rough country in all kinds of weather.

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He was on a trip to the Himalayas and died on a mountain trail.

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And they can follow the path of the trail over a modern highway.

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