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The Santa Fe Trail, one of the great highways of the world, stretched nearly one thousand miles from Franklin, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, carrying travelers from civilization to sundown. Captain William Becknell of Franklin, known as the Father of the Santa Fe Trail, led the first organized trade expedition to Santa Fe with four companions on September 1st, 1821.
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