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Photographer: Jeremy Snow
Taken: February 13, 2024
Caption: Old Spanish Trail Marker
Additional Description: Pioneering Paths Across the West In 1829 a Santa Fe merchant named Antonia Armijo led the first mule pack train loaded with trade goods to California. HIs successful venture openend commercial trade between Santa Fe and Los Angeles. Over two decades, multiple parallel, and intertwined routes developed, creating a network of rugged long-distance trails known as the Old Spanish Trail declined by the mid-19th century as new wagon routes opened to carry troops, gold-rush miners, emigrants, and others into the West. Antonio Armijo was aged 25 when he led the first trading expedition between Abiquiu, New Mexico and Los Angeles, California. In blazing his path across the West, Armijo used knowledge gained from American Indians, missionaries, fur trappers, and early exploring expeditions.
Submitted: February 19, 2024, by Jeremy Snow of Cedar City, Utah.
Database Locator Identification Number: p774888
File Size: 2.943 Megabytes

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