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<p>[QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8214735, member: 20201"]<b><font size="6">1971 Santa Fe Trail</font></b></p><p><b>Sterling Silver 39mm Medal</b></p><p><b><b>National Commemorative Society</b></b></p><p><b>Franklin Mint</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1441807[/ATTACH]</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1441808[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>The Santa Fe Trail</b> was a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Independence, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1441810[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell, it served as a vital commercial highway until the introduction of the railroad to Santa Fe in 1880.</p><p>Santa Fe was near the end of the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, which carried trade from Mexico City.</p><p>The route skirted the northern edge and crossed the north-western corner of Comancheria, the territory of the Comanches, who demanded compensation for granting passage to the trail, and represented another market for American traders.</p><p>Comanche raiding farther south in Mexico isolated New Mexico, making it more dependent on the American trade, and provided the Comanches with a steady supply of horses for sale.</p><p> </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1441811[/ATTACH] </p><p>By the 1840s, trail traffic along the Arkansas Valley was so heavy that bison herds could not reach important seasonal grazing land, contributing to their collapse, which in turn hastened the decline of Comanche power in the region.</p><p><br /></p><p>The American army used the trail route in 1846 for the invasion of New Mexico during the Mexican-American War.</p><p>After the U.S. acquisition of the Southwest ending the war, the trail helped open the region to U.S. economic development and settlement, playing a vital role in the expansion of the U.S. into the lands it had acquired.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1441812[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course there is the <b>1940 film "Santa Fe Trail"</b> starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey,</p><p>Ronald Reagan, Van Heflin, Alan Hale and other regular stars of the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1441813[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8214735, member: 20201"][B][SIZE=6]1971 Santa Fe Trail[/SIZE] Sterling Silver 39mm Medal [B]National Commemorative Society[/B] Franklin Mint [ATTACH=full]1441807[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1441808[/ATTACH] The Santa Fe Trail[/B] was a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Independence, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. [ATTACH=full]1441810[/ATTACH] Pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell, it served as a vital commercial highway until the introduction of the railroad to Santa Fe in 1880. Santa Fe was near the end of the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, which carried trade from Mexico City. The route skirted the northern edge and crossed the north-western corner of Comancheria, the territory of the Comanches, who demanded compensation for granting passage to the trail, and represented another market for American traders. Comanche raiding farther south in Mexico isolated New Mexico, making it more dependent on the American trade, and provided the Comanches with a steady supply of horses for sale. [ATTACH=full]1441811[/ATTACH] By the 1840s, trail traffic along the Arkansas Valley was so heavy that bison herds could not reach important seasonal grazing land, contributing to their collapse, which in turn hastened the decline of Comanche power in the region. The American army used the trail route in 1846 for the invasion of New Mexico during the Mexican-American War. After the U.S. acquisition of the Southwest ending the war, the trail helped open the region to U.S. economic development and settlement, playing a vital role in the expansion of the U.S. into the lands it had acquired. [ATTACH=full]1441812[/ATTACH] Of course there is the [B]1940 film "Santa Fe Trail"[/B] starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Van Heflin, Alan Hale and other regular stars of the time. [ATTACH=full]1441813[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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