Santa Fe Trail
PROGRAM
Summary
Program Preview
Video Tape
Credits
HISTORY
Introduction
A Castle on the Plains
Raton Pass
An Ancient Santa Fe Trail
Amache
Healing the Wounds
Exploring on Your Own
Further Down the Road
References
WAYSIDE EXCURSION
A History of the Santa Fe Trail
Manifest Destiny
Governor Carr
TRAVEL
Chambers/Visitor Centers
Weather/Road Conditions
Map
RESOURCES
Santa Fe Trail Timeline
America's Byways Timeline
Teacher's Guide
Pioneers crossing river in covered wagons
Pioneers
Courtesy, VCI Entertainment


Santa Fe Trail

Exploring on Your Own
Exploring on Your Own
  • Hispano merchants on the Santa Fe Trail
  • Depictions of the prairie experience in poetry, fiction, art, diaries, and photographs
  • How farming has changed since the Dust Bowl days
  • The other internment—the Aleut removal in Alaska
  • Letters from the Japanese-American internment camps
Dust storm in Colorado, 1936
Dust storm, 1936
Baca County, Colorado
Courtesy, Library of Congress
LC-USF34-001615-ZE

HIGHLIGHTS
Pioneers in wagon trains crossing river
Wagons crossing river
Courtesy, VCI Entertainment

The Santa Fe Trail rumbles with caravans of wagons, some teams include over 100 wagons.
Cow on arid over-grazed land
Over-grazed land
Courtesy, Library of Congress, LC-USF34-028408-D, Photo by Arthur Rothstein

Settlers push west hoping to stake a claim on a homestead and put down new roots. Soon the land along the Santa Fe Trail is over-plowed and over-grazed.
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