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Show Famous Santa Fe Trail Linked With Coronado California, nor was its traffic notable for the riches carried. But where the other trails went into an almost virgin vir-gin territory, the Santa Fe trail linked two opposing civilizations. West and south along Its course, following the pjoneers, the traders and the buffalo hunters, went that tide from the Middle West which battled and finally supplanted and transplanted transplant-ed traditions and life of far-off Spain. Boston Herald. It was in 1541 that Coronado followed fol-lowed the future line of the Santa Fe trail, probably as far as the site of Wichita, and that date, though the suggestion as to earlier years fails to response, deserves some sort of commemoration. com-memoration. The Santa Fe trail or portions por-tions of it, must have known the sweep of more than one ancient migration before Coronado's day perhaps descending de-scending from the North, perhaps coming up out of the crowded old civilizations of the South but its known history began with Coronado. And what a history it was through more than 300 years! It was the first of the great beaten tracks which joined the American East and West. It never approached in populousness those later northern routes that went from the Mississippi to Oregon and |