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Pedro Vial Returns To Santa Fe From St Louis
Historic Missouri figure Pedro Vial completes a two way journey from Santa Fe to St Louis. After delays and Native American encounters, Vial marks a northeast route that prefigured later Santa Fe Trail travel by Becknell and others.
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Pedro Vial
Santa Fe
St. Louis
Missouri
Floyd C. Shoemaker
William Becknell
Franklin
Becknell
Chittenden
Vial
Beckner
New Mexico
la Salle
Mallet Brothers
Illinois
Taos
Spain
Pacific
Mississippi
Don Juan Bautista de Anza
de Anza
Kansas
Oklahoma
West Texas
Arkansas
San Luis de Viinnese
Trudeau
Omaha
Nebraska
United States of
Louisiana
Mexico