The Mountain State reaches across the Great Plains to welcome you. This is the Smoky Hills Trail, a short cut found in 1860 from the Missouri River to the Pikes Peak and Cherry Creek gold diggings. On this route to the mountains wagon trains and . . . — — Map (db m287901) HM
Smoky Hill Trail
The Smoky Hill Trail was the most direct route to Denver and the goldfields of the central Rockies. Immigrants heading west through central Kansas followed the Kansas River, then headed up its Smoky Hill River branch into . . . — — Map (db m77898) HM