Thigh-high native grass grows Sunday, July 28, 2019, in a hillside near Baldwin City in one of eight visible ruts carved by wagons plying the Santa Fe Trail from 1821 to the 1870s. Roger Boyd ...

Unlike those two, which primarily carried settlers heading west, the Santa Fe was a trade route, so the wagons drawn by oxen, mules and horses carried heavier loads and left the deep ruts that ...

LEEDEY, OKLAHOMA — How ... Peters can still find wagon ruts from what was known as The California Trail. “It was just as busy as the Oregon Trail and the Santa Fe Trail,” says Peters.

Poster are $10, and postcards are $5. Proceeds for the Black Jack Wagon Ruts artwork will go to the Lumberyard Arts Center and the Santa Fe Trail Historical Society of Douglas County. Proceeds ...

“It’s one of the better areas of Santa Fe Trail ruts,” said Mike Armour, executive director of Boot Hill Museum. He said the wagon tracks are a natural tie-in to other elements of Dodge City ...

The Oregon trail only clips the northeast corner of our state, and the Chisholm Trail spends more time in both Oklahoma and Texas. While the Santa Fe Trail runs through four other states ...

Historian Art Peters walks the old California Trail often enough to have found the wagon ruts and to have dug up ... have used the Oregon Trail, the Santa Fe Trail, and about the same number ...

The men in the caravans on the Santa Fe trail americanized the people ... and river, — deep ruts made by the wagon wheels of the traders may still, in some places, be traced for distances ...

The Cimarron Route crossed the Arkansas and moved southwest through southern Kansas, the Oklahoma ... Santa Fe Trail, however, were not neglected. They became important in what has been called a ...

Sunrise on the Foster Farm on Ash Creek near Pawnee Rock, one of the stopping points along the Santa Fe Trail. Members of the Foster family placed remnants of an old wagon near their farmstead to ...

The Quivira Chapter of the Santa ... wagon rides from noon to 3 p.m. at the Fry Ruts. This event is free and open to the public and all events are sponsored by the Quivira Chapter of the Santa Fe ...