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Santa Fe National Historic Trail

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Records:

Katie Armitage papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1479
Overview

This collection of Lawrence, Kansas-based historian Katie Hart Armitage's papers includes Armitage's correspondence spanning from the 1970s until 2016, as well as her historical research materials and preparatory notes for tours and presentations centered primarily on the American Civil War, the Oregon-California Trail, and the Santa Fe Trail.

Dates: 1953 - 2017

Record of wagonload weight for driver G. W. Berry, weighed by City of Lawrence, Kansas

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P676
Overview

A certificate showing the weight of G. W. Berry's wagonload as officially weighed at Lawrence, Kansas by N.C.W. Sillett on June 13, 1867. On the reverse are brief handwritten notes for "Diamond Springs Station," a campsite on the Santa Fe Trail, as well as names and apparent directional information.

Dates: June 13, 1867

T.D. Heed letter to his sister, Susanna Mercy Heed

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P783
Overview This photocopy is of a July 1, 1867 letter from merchant Thomas Dougherty Heed, written from Fort Harker, Kansas, a military post along the Santa Fe Trail in Ellsworth County. Heed, a native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, addresses his 3-page letter to his sister, Susanna Mercy Heed of Bucks County, describing the traffic on the Santa Fe Trail, negative interactions with Native Americans, buffalo herds, and the local gambling and violence. Also included in the collection is a photocopy of an...
Dates: July 1, 1867