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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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"Santa fe trail" Quotes from Famous Books

... they had discovered to be William Bourke—easily corrupted into "Buck"—appeared, the boys had a delicate job before them. Inquiry had quickly shown them that Buck's twenty-five years on the old Santa Fe trail as guide and an active service in the army as scout easily made him the man to conduct Elmer ...

— The Air Ship Boys • H.L. Sayler

... 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

... Congo, in a poem called "The Santa Fe Trail," he found his own modern pilgrimage from another point of view. Here was the poet, disturbed by the honking hustle of passing cars. But Milt belonged to the honking and the hustle, and it was ...

— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis

... 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

... on the old Santa Fe Trail each morning through Penn Valley Park in Kansas City, the marks ...

— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter