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Santa Fe Trail

noun

A trail that extends from Missouri to New Mexico; an important route for settlers moving west in the 19th century.

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... to read these reminiscences of the Santa Fe Trail may be curious to know how much of them ...

— The Second William Penn - A true account of incidents that happened along the - old Santa Fe Trail • William H. Ryus

... to see everything in Santa Fe worth looking at, but Mr. Cullen decided to spend there the time they had to wait for his other son to join the party. To pass the hours, I hunted up some ponies, and we spent three days in long rides up the old Santa Fe trail and to the outlying mountains. Only one incident was other than pleasant, and that was my fault. As we were riding back to our cars on the second afternoon, we had to cross the branch road-bed, where a gang happened to be at work ...

— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds

Words linked to "Santa Fe Trail" : trail, west, western United States