A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . l and a party of men started fromFranklin, Howard county, with goods for Santa Fe. The ex-pedition was successful and made a profit. The next yearBecknell made his second trip. It was even more profitable,making a profit of 200 per cent. From that time down to the70s, when railroads appeared, the Santa Fe Trade is called The Founder of the Santa Fe Trade andthe Father of the Santa Fe Trail. He was the first man tomake a really profitable trip.
A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . l and a party of men started fromFranklin, Howard county, with goods for Santa Fe. The ex-pedition was successful and made a profit. The next yearBecknell made his second trip. It was even more profitable,making a profit of 200 per cent. From that time down to the70s, when railroads appeared, the Santa Fe Trade is called The Founder of the Santa Fe Trade andthe Father of the Santa Fe Trail. He was the first man tomake a really profitable trip. He was also the first man touse wagons instead of pack animals. He used wagons on hissecond trip in 1822. The Missouri starting point of the trade and trail was atFranklin and the earlv traders all lived in central Missouri. io6 History of Missouri and Missourians As the trade grew and as the steamboat appeared, Independ-ence in Jackson county was the starting place after few years later, about 1833, the starting point was WestportLanding, a few miles farther up the Missouri. From West-port Landing grew Kansas OVERLAND TRAIN FROM MISSOURI The Santa Fe Trail from Independence southwest to SantaFe was 750 miles long. Most of it lay in a country of hostileIndians. To protect themselves and their animals and goods,the traders organized in large Each outfitted him-self with goods, men, animals, and wagons at Independenceand then they all met 150 miles west in Kansas at a place calledCouncil Groves. Here they organized the caravan with offi-cers and guards. The wagons had large deep beds and werecovered with canvas. They held between one and three tonsof goods. They were called prairie schooners. The animalsused were eight to twelve mules or oxen to a wagon. FromCouncil Groves the trail led southwest to the Arkansas river, MissouRiANS Open the West 107 then up that river westward for 100 miles. Here the traildivided. One branch led on up the Arkansas to B
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