Missouri Santa Fe Trail: Pictures and Lodging
Sween's Travel Guide and Reservations | Interactive Santa Fe Trail | American History, Travel, and Photos
Revised from TravelLifeHistory.com

Re-Discovering the Santa Fe Trail
through Missouri
Reservations: staying along the Santa Fe Trail

MAPS:
* Interactive Trail Map   santafetrail.org
  * SFTA Missouri Chapter
* Santa Fe Trail, Route40.net

Home

This page is SFT:
Missouri

SFT index
New Franklin MO

* Short history of Franklin, MO (1992)


* Missouri River at Arrowrock, MO


* Trail ruts behind Sibley
Cemetery near Ft. Osage


* Fort Osage 1997


* Fort Osage seal


* Lewis & Clark Trail


* The trail marked at New Salem (1997)


* National Frontier Trails Center,
Independence, MO
* New Franklin: start of the trail


* Short history of Boonville, MO (1992)


Side Trip to Fort Osage,
north of Buckley and Sibley

* Missouri River at Ft Osage, MO


* Soldier at Ft. Osage


Fort Osage History sign (click to enlarge)



* Missouri mule


Although early commercial traders on the Santa Fe Trail eventually used Independence as their starting off point, Independence is more popular for the Oregon and California Trails, since many more people traveled it.

Also see Wikipedia: Santa Fe Trail

MO side trip:
Fort Osage
Fort Osage MO

SFT: Kansas
Kansas-Missouri

KS side trip:
Fort Scott KS
Fort Scott Re-enactors

SFT: NewMexico
Fort Union

History Index

MORE:
Missour & the trail For more information on the trail, see the Interactive Santa Fe Trail, kansasheritage.org


Santa Fe Trail Historical Markers, alphabetically by state and county, not in physical order

Click to map all SFT historical markers, by Historical Marker Database

Independence, MO hosts the Santa-Cali-Gon Days in late August, early September.

Photographs and Website by Nancy Sween

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