SFGT: Santa Fe Trail Mo-01
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This cache has been incorporated into the Santa Fe National Historic Trail GeoTour. This cache may be near archeological resources, thank you for staying on established trails and not digging or removing objects.
Be sure to visit www.santafetrail.org/geocaching to learn about the PASSPORT ACTIVITY to accompany this Geo Tour. This container on the Santa Fe National Historic Trail Geo Tour is a military ammunition canister with an identifying Santa Fe Trail Association yellow sticker on the top of the box, under the handle and the dark green geocaching.com ID is on the side of the boxes with the information that provides coordinates, who set the cache and who to contact for information. Each cache contains a logbook to sign, a variety of items that provide information about the Santa Fe Trail as well as swag items. If you are participating in the Passport activity, the code word is located on the inside of the box, on the top of the lid and is clearly identified as Code Word. Permission to set caches has been obtained. We ask that all cachers please respect all property at the sites where our caches are set. Placed in cooperation with 3-Trails West Inc., Kansas City Missouri Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund, Santa Fe Trail Association, and the Kansas City Missouri Parks and Recreation Department. While you are here, you might want to catch up on your reading! Finding the cache does not require you to leave paved paths or mowed areas. Please do not trample through the tall grass. This site, known as Schumacher Park, on 93rd St. east of Hillcrest Rd., Kansas City, provides interpretive information about the historic trails that passed through the area. There are no trail remains on the property, but the route of the early trail went diagonally across the property to the southwest. Native prairie has been restored and provides a setting for visitors to experience the many diverse plant materials trail travelers saw along their journey. "The Santa Fe Trail was founded in 1821, when William Becknell of Franklin, Missouri, led five men from the Missouri frontier to Santa Fe on a trading expedition. His timing was fortuitous, as Mexico had recently broken off from Spain, declaring their independence, and in the process, had thrown off decades of trade restrictions. Colonial Santa Fe welcomed Becknell and his little brigade, thus this trade route was opened between the two young nations. The apocryphal ending of Becknells' trip has him returning to the streets of Franklin and gutting a stiff saddlebag, to release the clatter and tinkle of Mexican silver on the stone gutters below, all to a mindful and eager audience. The very next year Becknell took the first wagons out over this virgin trace that he had blazed . . . three wagons loaded with trade goods for a commodity-starved Santa Fe, accompanied by almost two dozen men. From this moment on, the wagons never stopped rolling for almost sixty years. The Santa Fe Trail saw mountain men, trappers and traders, soldiers and Indians, emigrants and gold seekers, all rush down its rutted course. But history would judge its most lasting legacy as a two-way trail of commerce." Craig Crease, Trail Historian.
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