Transportation
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From 1829 to 1848, pack mule trains regularly left the Santa Fe Plaza and northern New Mexico along the Old Spanish Trail for Los Angeles, carrying woolen goods produced in New Mexico for California. Horses and mules were purchased and traded for, then driven back along the trail to New Mexico and on to the mid west. This was a dangerous but highly lucrative trade, and several modern-day New Mexican families have ancestors who traveled the routes linking Santa Fe, Abiquiu, and Taos with the San Gabriel Mission and Los Angeles Plaza at the trail's end.
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