Santa Fe Trail
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"We first rode nearly north about a mile to a remarkable Rocky Point . . .We rode upon the top which is probably 50 feet above the plain below, and from whence there is a charming view of the country in every direction."—George Sibley, 1825
Pawnee …
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Pawnee Rock,situated on the routeof the Santa Fe Trail,frequently was usedas a camping groundand a lookout for protectionfrom the Indiansby the brave men and womenwho traveled over the trail
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Father of Santa Fe TrailPawnee Rock, Kansas150 Anniversary1821 1971
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Standing here 175 years ago Santa Fe Trail travelers looked out over a sea of grass. About three miles to the south a line of timber marked the Arkansas River which meandered across the prairie. A few plum thickets dotted the landscape, and an occasional th…
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Standing here 175 years ago Santa Fe Trail travelers looked out over a sea of grass. About three miles to the south a line of timber marked the Arkansas River which meandered across the prairie. A few plum thickets dotted the landscape, and an occasional th…
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Slowly along came the line of wagons, and the prairie breeze brought us, in sound, faint and far between, the driver's invocations to their mules.Matthew C. Field, journalist1839
From 1821 until the late 1860s the Santa Fe Trail ran about two hundred yar…
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Pawnee Rock changed very little for ten thousand years. The hill was grass-covered with a fifty-foot-high face on the southeast side in front of you. Wind, water, and vegetation slowly eroded the stone.
But Pawnee Rock has changed. The top of Pawnee Rock…
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No one actually knows how Pawnee Rock was named. Josiah Gregg, who had been over the Santa Fe Trail eight times beginning in 1831, wrote: the attention of the traveller is directed to the ?Pawnee Rock' so called, it is said, on account of a battle's having …