. To California and back; . Sf^y-f^. easily be seen from the train. The distancewas 800 miles, and a round trip then consumedno days. Merchandise to an enormous valuewas often carried by a single caravan. In spiteof the protection of a strong military escortthe trail was almost continuously sodden withhuman blood and marked by hundreds of rudegraves dug for the mutilated victims of mur-derous Apaches and other tribes. Every scenerecounted by romances of Indian warfare hadits counterpart along the Santa Fe trail. Theambush, the surprise, the massacre, the cap-ture, the torture, in terrifying an
. To California and back; . Sf^y-f^. easily be seen from the train. The distancewas 800 miles, and a round trip then consumedno days. Merchandise to an enormous valuewas often carried by a single caravan. In spiteof the protection of a strong military escortthe trail was almost continuously sodden withhuman blood and marked by hundreds of rudegraves dug for the mutilated victims of mur-derous Apaches and other tribes. Every scenerecounted by romances of Indian warfare hadits counterpart along the Santa Fe trail. Theambush, the surprise, the massacre, the cap-ture, the torture, in terrifying and heart-break-ing detail, have been enacted over and with the advent of the railroad did theera of peace and security begin. To-day theApache is decimated and harmless, and, withthe Pueblo Indian and the Mexican, forms aromantic background to a thriving Anglo-Saxon civilization. It is this background that gives New Mexicoits peculiar charm to the thoughtful tourist; notalone its tremendous mountain-ranges, its ex-tensive u
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