Santa fe trail

Table of Contents

Introduction

1.  Origins

1.1.  Hard Times

1.2.  Big Success

1.3.  Big Business

1.4.  Trade Goods

1.5.  Missouri Mules

2.  Routes

2.1.  Location, Location, Location

2.2.  Mountain Route

2.3.  Dry Route

3.  Historical Significance

3.1.  Confederate Insurgency

3.2.  Foreign Intervention

3.3.  Domestic Insurrection

3.4.  Yankee Imperialism

4.  Sites and Sights

4.1.  The Sangre de Cristo Mountains

4.2.  Wagon Mound

4.3.  Extinct Volcanoes

4.4.  Sante Fe, NM

4.5.  Arrow Rock, MO

4.6.  Fort Union

4.7.  Mahaffie Farmstead

4.8.  Fort Larned

4.9.  Las Vegas, NM

4.10.  Santa Fe Trail Center

4.11.  Bent's Old Fort

5.  Chronology

5.1.  Mahaffie Farmstead

5.2.  Santa Fe Trail Center

5.3.  Fort Larned

5.4.  Clayton

5.5.  Springer

5.6.  Wagon Mound

5.7.  Santa Fe

5.8.  Las Vegas

5.9.  Fort Union

5.10.  Bent's Old Fort

5.11.  Sharon Springs

5.12.  Arrow Rock

5.13.  Boonville