Path carved history into New Mexico; so did those who traveled it

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As it was early in the 19th century, travelers on the trail’s wagon trains could expect to walk most of the way from Franklin, Mo. — where the trail initially began — as their wagons would be loaded to the brim with goods for sale. The wagons, pulled by oxen or mules, generally averaged 12 to 15 miles a day.

And this for nearly 800 or 900 miles, depending on which of two trail options they took.

“The prairie schooner was not a prairie RV,” anta Fe Trail historian Doug Hocking said.
"... wagons that typically traveled across the plains four abreast and not in a single row as is often depicted in movies"

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