Show stirring days of old santa fe trail recalled by memorial honoring pioneer these extracts from a bulletin of the national geographic society vividly bring to mind the glai glamorous days of the winning of the west A marker Is to be placed at ing tills kan as a memorial to Jeli eillah smith one of the pioneers the bulletin sars long whiskered traders and trappers in buckskins and moccasins came into old franklin to brig brag of their adventures and scatter their quick earned profits they made the rier bottom ring with nightly wassail with rough and tumble lights fights rich st louis bankers stirred by news of big profits in the newly opened santa fe trade rubbed elbows in franklin with buck skinned mountain men ant and re returning freighters and in all mens mouths were new place names yell yellowstone ow stone CO columbia I 1 embla taos rio grande america was in the making seattle denver san francisco they had bad yet to be built and christened the te yosemite the grand canyon salt lake the cast had never even heard of them hardly a handful of white settlers then where millions now make their homes arizona nevada california their stupendous wealth ot of gold silver and copper was not even suspected yet tet in all the history of 0 no region was ever to see such swift and amazing transition from wilderness to populous empire of richness and fald power it can neier happen again no empty place Is left on earth where it could happen today a speedy motor highway ties st SL louis to kansas city it sweeps thiO through ligh fading franklin wherein kit carsons youth the trail began over it pallor pailor busses hum running as far in 20 minutes as ox teams went in a day now men watch market reports or play golf where their forbears watched for indians or if tinkered a with mink from a spot near where kit carson stitched horse collars and bellybands bolly bellY banda bands EL a big highway bridge leads oft off to spa span the missouri here busses and motor r tourists stop for gas men betout get out to stretch their legs or buy a ginger at ale across the big 1319 muddy stands noon boon ville named for daniel whose sons whittled ramrods from missouri hickory and made salt from I 1 the d deer C er licks packed it in hollow logs 1093 and ito floated abed it down to st louis |