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Kosloski
Photographer: Chris English
Taken: June 10, 2013
Caption: Kosloski's Historic Trading Post and Santa Fe Trail Interpretive Material
Additional Description:

Interpretive material from north side of the parking lot.

Pecos and the Santa Fe Trail

The low spot on the horizon before you is Glorieta Pass with Glorieta Mesa to your left and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to your right. For centuries people used this natural corridor for travel and trade. In the nineteenth century it was the route of the Santa Fe Trail, a trade route between Franklin, Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The trail was actively used from 1821 until the railroad came through in 1880. Present day New Mexico Highway 63 follows its path. The building across the parking lot was once Kozlowski's State Station, one of the final rest stops before the much-anticipated end of the 900-mile journey.

Fresh Fish Dinner - Perhaps the most famous owner of the building to your left was Martin Kozlowski, a Polish immigrant who purchased the 600-acre ranch located along the Santa Fe Trail in 1861. Kozlowski's Stage Station was a highlight for traders along the trail because meals often included freshly caught brown trout from Glorieta Creek. Kozlowski successfully ran the stage station until 1880 when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad completed its maiden run to Santa Fe, making the Santa Fe Tail obsolete.

Cowboy Entrepreneur - Tex Austin purchased Kozlowski's Ranch in 1924 envisioning a summer recreational ranch with customers coming from the East by train. Austin's customers paid $125 per week to round up cattle and stay in his newly constructed guesthouse. Eventually the ranch was purchased by Texas oilman Colonel E.E> "Buddy" Fogelson and his wife, actress Greer Garson Fogelson.
Submitted: July 2, 2013, by Chris English of Phoenix, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p246220
File Size: 1.233 Megabytes

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