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This item, titled "Opening of the Santa Fe Trail," was written by Charles Cecil Howes in the 1940s. Howes explains that "the commissioners of the United States completed [1825], at Council Grove, the treaty under which the Osage Indians agreed to let the traffic through their lands without molestation and without price." Howes also explains that the Santa Fe Trail had long been in use, and began with "the movement of the nomadic tribes of the Indians in the prairie area. Then the Indians walked and carried their housing and whatever goods they owned upon their backs."
Creator: Howes, Cecil, 1880-1950
Date: 1940-1950
Item Number: 220171
Call Number: Charles Cecil Howes Coll. #393, Box 1 Folder: "Jayhawk Sketches"
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 220171
Collections - Manuscript - Howes, Charles Cecil
Date - 1940s
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Agencies - Indian affairs
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Agencies - Interior, Department of
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Article
People - American Indians - Indian lands
People - American Indians - Tribes - Osage
People - Notable Kansans - Brown, John, 1800-1859
People - Notable Kansans - Curtis, Charles, 1860-1936
People - Notable Kansans - Howes, Charles Cecil
Places - Forts and military installations - Fort Dodge
Places - Forts and military installations - Fort Union
Thematic Time Period - Trails, 1821 - 1880 - Santa Fe Trail
Transportation - Trails - Santa Fe
Type of Material - Printed materials - Article
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