![]() At the site of today’s La Junta, Colorado, several miles upstream from where Charles Bent, William Bent and Ceran St. It passed through the site of Council Grove, where the tall grass prairie melted into the mixed grass prairie, and the vicinity of Dodge City, where the mixed grass prairie dissolved into the short grass prairie.Īrrival of the caravan at Santa Fe, lithograph published c.1844 - By Unknown author -, Public Domain, įrom the center of Kansas, the Santa Fe Trail’s "Mountain Branch" followed the north bank of the valley of the Arkansas River upstream, westward across the rolling prairie lands of southeastern Colorado, where the plants and the terrain began to speak of desert basins and mountain ranges. The trail continued on to the west, across the heart of Kansas and through increasingly more elevated, more arid lands. ![]() It headed west, following the Missouri upstream, across tall grass prairie, to the bend where the river turns sharply to the north. When the Santa Fe Trail first opened, in 1821, it began at a village and landing area called Franklin, on the north bank of the Missouri River in the central part of the state of Missouri. ![]() By Unknown photographer -, Public Domain, Ĭarson invested his legacy, not only in the 19th century West, but also on the Santa Fe Trailthat avenue of commerce, conquest and opportunity which connected Missouri and America to the Southwest and Mexico’s northern Chihuahua.
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