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Santa Fe Trail



Santa Fe Trail, overland trade route between the western part of Missouri and Santa Fe, N.M., in use from its opening (1821) until the coming of the Santa Fe Railroad (1880). Manufactured goods passed west, furs and bullion, east.

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