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Traders and Travelers:
After 1800, an overland trail developed between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and San Bernardino, California. It became a well established pack trail used by New Mexican traders and herders and came to be known as the Old Spanish Trail. The main branch of the trail followed the Santa Clara River.
After 1847, early Utah settlers and "49ers" heading to the gold fields of California drove their wagons along the Old Santa Fe Trail. It later became Highway 91, one of the first automobile roads in Utah. Today the route is designated as a National Historic Trail. |