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Old Spanish Trail
Old Spanish Trail Historical OverviewChicago Valley - Emigrant Pass The Old Spanish National Historic Trail passes through Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. It opened a land route across 19th century Mexico between the Tierra Adentro, the fabled, yet isolated place that would become New Mexico, and California’s missions and burgeoning settlements. When he left Abiquiu, New Mexico for California in 1829 with 40 men and 200 pack mules, Antonio Armijo blazed a trail between the two colonies that had frustrated explorers for over a century. The Abiquiu party’s woolen blankets and tanned hides were welcomed in textile-starved California. In return, the horses and mules Armijo and his followers on the trail brought east would become the working stock for miners, American and Mexican military, and farmers from northern Mexico to the east coast of the United States. source - BLM
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About the Old Spanish Trail American Indian groups Spanish colonial interest In late summer of 1826 A major variation of the Old Spanish Trail The major reason for travel There was considerable legal trade Some of the vast fur trade Hispanic New Mexican families Americans and other foreigners With the American takeover of California Over the years a number of military groups Overall, use of the Old Spanish Trail Revised and adapted from: Draft National Historic Trail Feasibility Study and Environmental Assessment July 2000 OLD SPANISH TRAIL New Mexico · Colorado · Utah · Arizona · Nevada · California United States Department of the Interior - National Park Service |
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