It also used the trail to take control of an area that is now New Mexico and part of California.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

The Santa Fe Trail began in the state of Missouri, the nineteenth century gateway to the wild and largely unexplored West.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

With the coming of Mexican independence, the Santa Fe Trail became the major trade link between the two countries.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

A force known as the Army of the West used the Santa Fe Trail to protect American traders.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

The area surrounding the Santa Fe Trail included the hunting grounds of the Cheyenne, the Kiowa,the Comanche, the Arapaho and the Apache.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

The area of the Santa Fe Trail around Fort Union was also involved in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

The Indians walked what was later called the "Trail of Tears" to a new homeland in Oklahoma.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

Whichever kind of animal pulled the wagons, moving along the Santa Fe Trail was generally unexciting.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

A comet is a huge ball of frozen gas and dust that often releases a long trail of material as it nears the sun.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

It went up and up. I followed the trail for several hundred meters more until I came to the mouth of a large cave.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

The government built a series of bases in the New Mexico territory to protect the settlers and goods moving along the Santa Fe Trail.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

In nineteen nineteen, he published another collection, called "Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp."

VOA: special.2010.01.18

And the trail took the cowboys over rough country in all kinds of weather.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

And they can follow the path of the trail over a modern highway.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

I could see part of the trail that had led me here.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

Haraszti credits earlier generations of Soviet dissidents whose work, he says,blazed the trail.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Two vehicles entered and then exploded in the African Union peacekeeping force compound, sending a heavy trail of black smoke into the skyline of the capital city.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Carolyn Maloney's own tragedy struck last September, when she learned that her husband of 31 years had died on a mountain trail, during an expedition to the Himalayas.

VOA: standard.2010.08.07

They carved the first hiking trail to the top of Mt.Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States and they built the first museum in the National Park system.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25