Photo courtesy of santa fe county just beyond the edge of santa fe and a short hike through the deep silence of the terrain lies a rocky ledge that seems to whisper to passersby, the dark stone. The top right menu allows you to look at the trail overlaid on street, topographic, or imagery maps. There are menu options at the top right and top left of the map viewer. Linking spains colonial capital at mexico city to its northern frontier in distant new mexico, the route spans three centuries, two countries, and 1,600 miles.
Our target audience is the intellectually alive and curious reader who might also be interested in magazines such as the american heri. All downloadable papers are in adobe acrobat pdf format. Trade fairel camino real 2 0 18sunday, october 21 10 a. Roads, camino real project, chihuahua trail, history. However, the trail was extended south from the paraje river crossing in the 1850s to connect the towns to the trail. The trail was used for trade among native tribes since the earliest of times. The size of each town varied over the years from 100 people to several hundred. On the camino real westward quest book also available for. It was the northernmost of the four major royal roads that linked mexico city to its major tributaries during. This spanish colonial royal road in new mexico and texas originally extended to mexico city, mexico. The sri foundation library offers a variety of documentsresources available for you to download. Royal road of the interior land was an historic 2,560kilometrelong 1,590 mi trade route between mexico city and san juan pueblo ohkay owingeh, new mexico, usa, from 1598 to 1882.
Download on the camino real westward quest in pdf and epub formats for free. This emigrant trail brought thousands of spanish and mexican colonists to new mexico until the arrival of the railroad in the late 1800s. It was part of spains camino real intercontinental a global network of roads and maritime routes. On the camino real westward quest book also available for read online, mobi, docx and mobile and kindle reading.
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