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The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Independence, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell, it served as a vital commercial highway until the introduction of the railroad to Santa Fe in 1880.
Nov. 2—Tons of people want to visit Santa Fe and move to Santa Fe. Ovation Travel Group declared Santa Fe the No. 3 place to travel in the world in 2022, with Napa Valley the only other U.S ...
Santa Fe: A Walk Through Time. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 1586851020. La Farge, John Pen (2006). Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog: Scripting the Santa Fe Legend, 1920–1955. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0826320155. Lovato, Andrew Leo (2006). Santa Fe Hispanic Culture: Preserving Identity in a Tourist Town. University of New ...
Mexico became independent of Spain in 1821 and took over Spain's northern possessions stretching from Texas to California. American caravans began delivering goods to the Mexican city Santa Fe along the Santa Fe Trail, over the 870-mile (1,400 km) journey which took 48 days from Kansas City, Missouri (then known as Westport). Santa Fe was also ...
Jan. 18—Santa Fe and Albuquerque are the top U.S. cities where filmmakers can live and work, MovieMaker magazine declared Thursday. Santa Fe, for the second year running, was ranked No. 1 in the ...
While in Santa Fe, Armijo wrote to Mexico again, stating what he had done and asking for troops to complete his victory and re-establish peace (Lecompte 1985, pages 50–53). A former mayor of Taos, Pablo Montoya, led a Cantón force of reportedly 3000 men on Santa Fe. Though Armijo had only about 1,000 soldiers, they were much better trained ...
May 3—Rich Brown came to Santa Fe to retire. Instead, he got a government job. After 6 1/2 years with the city of Santa Fe, Brown will be retiring as director of the Community Development ...
The Santa Fe Railroad reached New Mexico in 1878, with the first locomotive crossing Raton Pass that December. It reached Lamy, New Mexico, 16 miles (26 km) from Santa Fe in 1879 and Santa Fe itself in 1880, and Deming in 1881, thereby replacing the storied Santa Fe Trail as a way to ship cattle to market. The new town of Albuquerque, platted ...