The Silver Cache of the Pawnee w/ Direct link technology (A Western Classic)

Philip Benson had been over the long trail once and his father was at Santa Fe now. At least he had not returned from a trading trip on which he had started the previous spring. So it was but natural that Philip should take a lively interest in everything pertaining to the Santa Fe Trail and the Santa Fe trade. In fact the whole town had no other interest. Since in 1828 the Missouri River had practically swept away the old town of Franklin, Independence had become the starting point of the Santa Fe Trail, over which moved in long trains of heavy wagons drawn by mules or oxen the whole overland trade between the United States and Mexico.