Santa Fe Trail centennial lore spans Southwest history
A detailed, period tone history traces the Santa Fe Trail from early Coronado exploration through 1800s trade, Bent family posts, and U S military escorts. It covers key figures like Becknell and Bent, treaties at Council Grove, the trail’s role in Texas annexation, the Mexican War, and California’s conquest.
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John Dickinson
Sherman
Kansas
Colorado River
Grand Canyon
Tucson
Santa Fe
Onate
St. Augustine
Jamestown
Champlain
Quebec
Manhattan Island
Plymouth Rock
New Jersey
American Atlantic
American Southwest
St. Louis
Columbia
Pike
New Mexico
Texas
New Spain
Missouri
Purcell
Taos
Santa Fre
William Morrison
Kaskaskia
la Lande
McKnight
Chambers
Beard
Chihuahue
A. P. Choteau
Julius de Munn
Mexico
Spain
William Becknell
Franklin, Mo
Turkey Creek
McPherson County
Council Grove
United States
Arkansas
Franklin
Independence
Westport Landing
Kansas City
Southwest
Chihuahua
Sonora
California
Stephen W. Kearny
Fort Leavenworth
Otfs
Overland Stage
Traffic at Fu gueroa Santa Barbara corner tops world list
Western notes report Los Angeles traffic at the Fu gueroa and Santa Barbara boulevards intersection recorded 62 860 cars in 11 hours. Earlier counts in October 1924 showed about 4 000 cars in the same period.
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Los Angeles
Fugueroa and
Santa Barbara Boulevards
Traffic Commission
Iron Ore Composition and Ancient Shoe Customs
The report notes ore varies by region with Alabama and Virginia at 35 to 40 percent iron, Pennsylvania near 50 percent, Minnesota around 50 percent, and southern ores of the Clinton group requiring washing. It mentions magnetites and the magnetic separation of iron, with superior ores richest in iron. Separate notes describe ancient Egyptians wearing sandals with painted enemy portraits, and a Sacramento candidate for governor on an evolution and anti-capital punishment platform, plus a San Francisco air crash killing Naval Aviation Pilot John H. Stitson and injuring Rigger Samuel M. Lyons.
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Alabama
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Minnesota
Clinton
Superior
Great Lakes
Sacramento
Calif
Frederick Eastman
Carmel-by-the-Sea
Here
California
San Diego
Naval Aviation
John H. Stitson
Samuel M. Lyons
San Francisco, Bay
Earliest Footwear Records Are Sandal Beginnings
The first known articles of footwear are sandals, the earliest surviving examples that mark the origin of human shoe use.
Mrs Borgelin’s Remarkable Recovery
Mrs Borgelin recounts a severe illness lasting a year after childbirth. She notes significant improvement after using Vege Saree Compound, describing rapid recovery and continued treatment in Forest City and nearby Tor Town.
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Berate oxoAn v
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Forest City
Tor Town
Jeering Odds and Laws in a Turbulent Exchange
A dialogue recounts a student failing mercantile canon and international law while facing a larger personal reckoning with telling a mother. The excerpt mentions Niagara Lights Steel Power and a baffling riverine phrase about water power and a lake, ending with a note on race.
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Tza-Law
Niagara Lights Steel
Niagara
Man acquitted in self defense shooting case
Quote fragment from the Kansas City Star features farmers debating a man who shot and killed his brother in law after ten years of alleged coercion. They assert self defense as the ruling basis.
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Farmer Fumblegate
Farmer Flint
Kansas City Star
Pound urges learning by being done at Boston dinner
Harvard Law head Roscoe Pound told a Boston audience that Americans lose yearly to bogus stocks yet learn by doing. He asked why they cannot learn by being done and warned against persistent investment blindness.
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Roscoe Pound
Harvard Law School
Boston
Mr. Pound
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Council
Benjamin Cooper
le Mine River
Marmaduke
Bernard Pratte
Augustus Storrs
Thomas &. Benton
Congress
Cimarron Desert
Cimarron
Benton
John Quincy Adams
Benjamin H., Reeves
George G. Sibley
Thomas Nather
Neosho River
John Walker
St. Days
Cal
Isle of Pines
Joplin
Mont
Baker
Ore
Robert N. Stanfield
Oregon
Senate
Public Landa Committee
W. Adama
San Francisco
San Quentin State Prison
Bliss Y. Baker
C. Mussel
Crawford
Daniel C. Jackling
University of California
University of Oregon
Dawes
Vancouver
B. C
T. Nesbit
Nesbit
Lankersham
Rudolph Valentino
Wilma Banky
Portlami
Charles G. Dawes
Navy
Stanford E. Moses
Naval Radio Headquarters
N. D
Ruth Anderton
William Schwartz
Wiencke
Mer
Fletcher
Fleilhen
Tanlac
Jacob Ferdinand
Tania
Nora
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