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A 1907 View of the Santa Fe Trail.
We have had several conversations about the portion of the Santa Fe Trail which crosses Baca County. Most recently we posted Jim Womack’s “Ruts of the Santa Fe Trail, The Aubrey Trail Cutoff.” The following article in the Springfield Herald (Springfield, Colorado) May 31, 1907, is attributed to the Syracuse Journal, but no specific issue. It…
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Ruts of the Santa Fe Trail: The Aubry Trail Cut Off — By Jim Womack
Special thanks to Jim Womack for sharing spectacular photos as well as the following about the historical Santa Fe Trail which passed through Baca County: One of the few remaining places you can see the wagon wheel ruts on the Santa Fe Trail; this is the Aubry Cutoff a few miles southeast of Campo, Colorado…
