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Santa Fe Trail
The trail opened in 1821, running through Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, and what is now New Mexico. The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century transportation route. This trail was used to haul manufactured goods from the state of Missouri in the United States to Santa Fe, which was in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo, Mexico. -
Old Spanish Trail
A historical trade route that connected the northern New Mexico settlements near or in Santa Fe, New Mexico with that of Los Angeles, California and southern California. -
Oregon Trail
From about 1811-1840 the Oregon Trail was laid down by traders and fur trappers. It could only be traveled by horseback or on foot. In 1836, the first of the migrant train of wagons were put together. This journey started in Independence, Missouri and traveled a cleared trail that reached to Fort Hall, Idaho. -
Mormon Trail
In search of religious freedom, one large group of Mormons traveled to the West. Early 1830s Smith and his growing number of converts left New York. There they formed new communities, first in Ohio, second Missouri, and last, in Illinois. All three communities failed and an anti-Mormon mob murdered Smith. Brigham Young became head of the Mormon Church. Young chose now what's Utah as the group's new home, and thousands of Mormons took the Mormon trail to the area called The Great Salt Lake City. -
California Trail
By 1847, two former fur trading frontier forts marked trailheads for major alternative routes in Utah and Wyoming to northern California. The California Trail was an emigrant trail across the western half of the North American continent from Missouri River towns to what is now the state of California.
