No. 135 END OF THE SANTA FE TRAIL
BEFORE RAILROAD DAYS
From the first part of the 19th Century until
the 80's the Santa Fe Trail, extending from
Westport (now Kansas City) Missouri, across
barren prairie, rugged mountains and arid
desert, to Santa Fe, capital of New Mexico, s
was the avenue over which flowed the inter
course between the old American frontier and
the Spanish Southwest. Here we see the
arrival of a train of prairie schooners, drawn
by oxen. The old Fonda, site of the modern
sumptuous hotel, is the fourth building at the
right. Then, as now, it was the end of the
Santa Fe Trail.
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