Front:
END OF THE SANTA FE TRAIL MARKER, SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
THIS STONE
MARKS
COLORADO
KANSAS
END
OKLA
OF
SANTA FE
TRAIL
1822
1879
ERECTED BY THE
DAUGHTERS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
AND THE TERRITORY OF
NEW MEXICO
1910
2307-30
TEXAS
Back:
End of the Santa Fe Trail Monument, erected
by the Daughters of the American Revolution to
mark the end of the trail, beginning at Westport
(now Kansas City), Mo., which was the only
8 highway connecting the Southwest with the east,
from the first decades of the 19th Century until the
'80s. Travel
was by coach or prairie schooner,
and highway robberies and Indian attacks
were
frequent occurrences
PUBLISHED BY SOUTHWEST ARTS & CRAFTS, SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
T. AMERICAN ART COLORED
