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Santa Fe Trail - Sand Creek Massacre Colorado Scenic & Historic Byway

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Monday July 2.- Moved twelve miles and camped on the river. About noon-to day we came in sight of a large band of Indians. They were on the opposite side of the river... we could see them very plainly. We stopped the train so as to rest a while, as we frequently do at noon, and we also wanted to find out what the Indians were doing there...there were between three hundred and fifty and four hundred of them.. the inference was that they were on a war path... The Major thinks that the visit of Little bear and his companion was for the purpose of seeing how strong our party was so that they could decide whether it would be safe for them to attack us to-night.

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It is April 15, 1822 and we are still on the trail to our bright future. The men are in a bit of a struggle, but I am sure we are going to get through it alive. All of us know where we are headed to, yet we do not know where we are stranded. It is not easy to get from Missouri to Santa Fe Mexico. A 900 mile trip is not easy to travel through on land as you can see. Just in case I do not make it to Santa Fe, Mexico alive I want my family and friends that I love and adore them. I know this notebook is going to get into someones hands so I want to send a message if the surviving possibility is little.

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After Mexico gained the independence from Spain in 1821, their borders opened to the entire world which led to more travelers and traders visiting. William Becknell was a trader and when he explored to Santa Fe Mexico he traded merchandise from where he came from which was astonishing to the Mexican people of Santa Fe. After a while he decided to come home from his trade trip. When he arrived a man slit opened his bag just for him and the crowd around him to find a lot of gold and valuable earnings. That is when the Santa Fe trail was created. White Americans knew it was the land to where they would become rich traders. The following spring Becknell headed to Santa Fe again. Except this time he loaded his trade goods into a prairie schooner. Becknell could not take the previous trail because he was carrying around a waggon. So Becknell, and other traders took a path through the sandy deserts. They did not expect to go through this trail which is why these travelers lopped off mules ears, and killed their dogs to drink their blood which kept them from dying of thirst and hungry. Finally they found a stream which saved them from their thirst crisis. When they reached Santa Fe, Mexico they traded and came home with a huge profit. That is when

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On this day, Missouri Indian trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. William Becknell sells his goods at a giant profit. Soon after he makes plans to return the next year over the route that will not long after become known as the Santa Fe Trail.