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Title
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Military Protection of the Santa Fe Trail and Trade
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Description
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Photo and article about the history of military protection of the Santa Fe Trail and its trade in the early 1800s between Kansas City and New Mexico.
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Date
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1954-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Map of Santa Fe Trace From Independence to the Crossing of the Arkansas
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Description
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A facsimile of the map "drawn by Capt. P. St. G. Cooke, Drags. From Notes carefully taken by him while in command of the Excursion to protect the Santa Fe Trade, 1843." Covers the trail from the Independence/Weston/Ft. Leavenworth area to the crossing 375 miles from Fort Leavenworth in western Kansas. The rivers and creeks along the trail are drawn and named. Military Road from Ft. Leavenworth to Ft. Scott is also shown. Handwritten at bottom of the map: "No. 252 - Capt. Cook's journal - recd. October 2nd 1849, R. Jones A-G."
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Date
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1843
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Documents: A Journal of the Santa Fe Trail
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Description
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First of a two-part series of articles excerpting the journal of Santa Fe Trail experiences in the 1800s by Philip St. George Cooke. Information on many of the trail's freighters involved with Westport such as the Chouteau family, Josiah Gregg, Charles Bent and his brother William Bent, and various military officers, et al.
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Date
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1925-06-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Documents: A Journal of the Santa Fe Trail
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Description
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Second of a two-part series of articles excerpting the journal of Santa Fe Trail experiences by Philip St. George Cooke in 1843. Information on many of the trail's freighters, military officers, and Indian tribes.
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Date
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1925-09-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Boom Times For Freighting on the Santa Fe Trail, 1848-1866
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Description
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Third in a series of articles examining the evolution of freighting on the Santa Fe Trail over four time periods: 1821-1846, 1846-1848, 1848-1866, and 1866-1880. This installment describes the prosperous era begining in 1848 (the end of the Mexican War) and 1866 when the "Trail became a the supply-lifeline for the new Southwestern United States." It also examines military freighting during this period.
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Date
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2009-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Army's Attempts at Freighting During the Mexican War, 1846-1848
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Description
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The third in a series of articles examining the evolution of freighting on the Santa Fe Trail over four time periods: 1821-1846, 1846-1848, 1848-1866, and 1866-1880. This installment focuses on military freighting on the Sante Fe Trail during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). It discusses in detail the difficulties and great expense in supplying western military posts and the use of contract freighters.
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Date
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2008-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Captain Ford's Journal of an Expedition to the Rocky Mountains
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Description
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Edited journals of Captain Lemuel Ford (1788-1850) with commentary about his military expedition under Colonel Henry Dodge in 1835 "through the present states of Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas" and returning to civilization "down the valley of the Arkansas River and over a portion of the Santa Fe road."
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Date
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1926-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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As the Wheel Turns: The Evolution of Freighting on the Santa Fe Trail, an Introduction
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Description
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First in a series of articles examining the evolution of freighting on the Santa Fe Trail over four time periods: 1821-1846, 1846-1848, 1848-1866, and 1866-1880. This installment provides an overview of early trail routes from Missouri to New Mexico. It also examines how the start of the Mexican-American War in 1846 and the ensuing occupation of the Southwest led to an influx of military freighting on the trail.
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Date
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2008-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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SC15-8 Mrs. J. O. Williams Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection has information relating to Richard Yeager (also known as Dick Yeager) and his activities in the Civil War and on the Santa Fe Trail. Yeager, noted guerrilla who rode with Quantrill, was also a wagon master between Westport and Santa Fe and a friend and compatriot of Upton Hays, noted resident of Westport, prominent in several early local battles and skirmishes in the Civil War.
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Date
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1861/1865
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
