Show age of santa fin fe trail the question of the age of the santa fe trail has never been definitely decided says a writer in the chicago tribune sortie some say sav the path of at travel from the prehistoric aboriginal settlements in tile alie country to the cliff dwellings and pueblos of 0 the southwest existed centuries before the white iman man came to america others other 8 maintain in aln there Is no evidence of any such primeval path and nothing to show that the mound builders of tile the upper tipper ills country and the pueblos of 0 the mountain valleys ever had any social relations the first white man to whom credit Is given for haing traveled at least a part of the route wag wn coronado ile he and his men are supposed to have hit the trall trail on their Jo journey to quivers to in 1541 at a point near what la Is now dodge city kao no a |