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Santa Fe Trail
noun
- an important trade route going between Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, used from about 1821 to 1880.
Santa Fe Trail
/ ˈsæntə ˈfeɪ /
noun
- an important trade route in the western US from about 1821 to 1880, linking Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Notes
Important route used by settlers moving west.
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Example Sentences
They were swarming all along the old Santa Fe Trail, on the watch for parties whom they could overwhelm and destroy.
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When about half-way across the plains, they struck the great Santa Fe trail.
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When they ran out of food they killed their pack animals, and thus managed to subsist until they struck the Santa Fe trail.
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Another portion turned off southward, for the Santa Fe Trail again.
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The story of the Santa Fe Trail, now passing into oblivion, once was on the tongue of every man.
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