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One of the original people to claim the water right was Manuel Lucero.

The trail then followed the Gunnison River to today's Grand Junction, where the Colorado River was forded, and then on west to join the Main Northern Route just east of the Green River. By 1950, the organization disappeared. …

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A single round trip per year was about all that was feasible.

This route ran northwest to the Colorado and Green Rivers, then crossed over to the Sevier River, which it followed until crossing westward over mountains to the vicinity of Parowan, Utah. It was approximately 2,700 miles of high mountains, deserts, deep canyons and changing climate. [8]:32–33,72–74, By now short of food, Armijo sent some of his scouts ahead to get more food in the settlement at San Bernardino de Sena Estancia. The trail was also used for illicit purposes, namely to raid the California ranchos for horses and for an extensive Indian slave trade.

First traveled in 1830 by a party led by William Wolfskill and George Yount, this route ran northwest from Santa Fe through southwestern Colorado, past the San Juan Mountains, Mancos, and Dove Creek, entering Utah near present-day Monticello. The trail is a combination of known trails that were established by Spanish explorers, trappers, and traders with the Ute and other Indian tribes.

"Old Spanish Trail-Mormon Road Historic District", National Park Service: Historic Trail Maps, Old Spanish Trail, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Old_Spanish_Trail_(trade_route)&oldid=985361372, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 25 October 2020, at 14:38.

The trail is a combination of known trails that were established by Spanish explorers, trappers, and traders with the Ute and other Indian tribes. The Old Spanish National Historic Trail is known for being the most laborious route traveled by the 19th century wayfarers and traders. [16][17], In 2001, the section of the Trail that runs across Nevada from the Arizona border to California was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Old Spanish Trail/Mormon Road Historic District. Native Americans, especially the Paiutes along the route of the trail, usually women and children, were captured and sold to Mexican ranchers, etc., in both California and New Mexico for domestic servants. Caravans then headed west to today's Saguache, crossing over the Continental Divide at Cochetopa Pass, and then through present day Gunnison and Montrose to the Uncompahgre Valley. The water was taken from the Rio Grande with a legal description of the location of the headgates as follows:  N. 39 d. 50” E. 36 chains from corner to sections 6-7 1 &12, township 30 N. Ranges 5 and 7 New Mexico Meridian. From Salt Spring they crossed a two-day-long waterless stretch up Salt Creek to Laguna del Milagro ("Lake of the Miracle"), (probably Silver Lake), then to Ojito del Malpais ("little spring of the badlands") on Soda Lake, then another waterless day beyond Soda Lake, where they reached the only intermittently dependable Mojave River and the Mohave Trail leading up river.

Smith, Jedediah S., [Harrison G. Rogers], and George R. Brooks (ed.).

The eastern parts of what became called the Old Spanish Trail, including southwest Colorado and southeast Utah, were explored by Juan Maria de Rivera in 1765. Armijo's route was documented by him in a report to the governor, and published by the Mexican government in June 1830.[5]. The entire article is attached.

Many local historians feel that this branch does exist and are calling for more studies. December 2017

January 2015 Intermittent Indian warfare along the trail often resulted from these slave raids by unscrupulous traders and raiding Indians. Other expeditions, under another Franciscan missionary, Francisco Garcés, and Captain Juan Bautista de Anza, then explored and traded in the southern part of the region, finding shorter and less arduous routes through the mountains and deserts that connected Sonora to New Mexico and California, but did not become part of the Old Spanish Trail, with the exception of some of the paths through the Mojave Desert. August 2020

Leroy and Ann Hafen published their book with a definitive history of the trail in 1954. May 2020

New Map Of The Territory Of Arizona, Southern California And Parts Of Nevada, Utah And Sonora., Payot, Upham & Company, San Francisco, 1877.

Old Spanish Trail, over 7 miles long, provides users with a pleasant and quiet hike just a few minutes away from downtown Grand Junction. Old Spanish.

On April 20, 1844, following the advice of his guide, John C. Frémont intercepted this route to the river, riding east southeast from Lake Elizabeth, north of the San Gabriel Mountains. The other ancient route was the West Fork that came across the San Luis Valley through the open area in the western part.

Approximately 700 mi (1,100 km) long, the trail ran through areas of high mountains, arid deserts, and deep canyons.

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The name of the trail comes from the publication of John C. Frémont’s Report of his 1844 journey for the U.S. Topographical Corps., guided by Kit Carson, from California to New Mexico. Colors indicate trail is missing specified detail. October 2015 August 2018 Armijo’s group blazed a trade route utilizing a network of indigenous routes, incorporating parts of Jedediah Smith’s routes of 1826 and 1827, and Rafael Rivera’s route of 1828. to the San Gabriel Mission through the Mojave along the Mojave River.

It stayed close to the base of the mountains for the availability of firewood and protection from enemies. Its first members were from southern and western Colorado.

The trading party usually left New Mexico in early November to take advantage of winter rains to cross the deserts on the trail and would arrive in California in early February.

However, it is documented as a trail or road on various maps. Established by Congress in 2002 as America’s 15th national historic trail, the Old Spanish Trail route spans six western states, including many locations accessible to the public.

It cut through the far southwestern corner of the state.

On average it takes 31 minutes to complete this trail.

Once through the pass, they turned west along the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains for two days to San Jose Creek, then following it to cross the San Gabriel River at the Rancho La Puente, reaching Mission San Gabriel Arcángel on January 30, 1830.

The return party often included several hundred to a few thousand horses and mules.

The consequences of this human trafficking had a long-standing effect for those who lived along the trail, even after the trail was no longer in use.

But regardless of the route taken, the Old Spanish Trail crossed several mountain ranges, passed through dry sections with limited grass and sometimes limited water, crossed two deserts, and was often littered with the bones of horses that had died of thirst.

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Several maps made in 1870s show a major plaza called “San Jose” at the location of present Swede Lane and County Road 3 West area. August 2007, Monte Vista Historical Walking and Driving Tour, Old Spanish Trail - La Vereda de Norte Chapter, 3 Scenic Byways: Leaf Peeping in Southern Colorado. This commerce usually consisted of one mule pack train from Santa Fe with 20 to 200 members, with roughly twice as many mules, bringing New Mexican goods hand-woven by Indians, such as serapes and blankets, to California. May 2017 Armijo returned by the same route between March 1 and April 25, 1830.

November 2019 Although few traces of the early traders' trail remain, the Trail is now commemorated in many[which?] Beginning in 1992, a strategy for attaining National Historic Trail designation was laid out by individuals connected with the Riverfront Commission at Grand Junction, Colorado and the Colorado Board of Parks and Outdoor Recreation. He submitted a brief journal of his journey (itemizing the days with names of places where camps were made but with no distances) to the government of New Mexico, and it was published by the Mexican government in June 1830.

Frémont also used this route in 1844. Historians disagree as to where they actually settled after they arrived and made their permanent homes, farms and ranches in area that were called “plazas”. Franciscan missionaries Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante unsuccessfully attempted the trip to California, which was just being settled, leaving Santa Fe in 1776 and making it all the way into the Great Basin near Utah Lake before returning via the Arizona Strip.

July 2016 205-206, "The Old Spanish National Historic Trail.

Old Spanish Trail is a 13.3 mile moderately trafficked loop trail located near Grand Junction, Colorado that features a river and is rated as moderate. Did you know that the Old Spanish Trail Association (OSTA) started right here in the Visit San Luis Valley, Colorado?

Locally, the La Vereda del Norte Chapter is active and is helping to keep the Old Spanish Trail history alive and is working on the documentation of the West Fork of the North Branch to have it added to the trail system. Efforts to mark the trail were revived. New Mexicans came to settle in Alta California by this route, some first settled in Politana then established the twin settlements of Agua Mansa and La Placita on the Santa Ana River the first towns in what became San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. Warren, Elizbeth von Till (1974). In his book, “Retracing the Old Spanish Trail” author Ron Kessler shows the West Fork coming through Ojo Caliente to Tres Piedras to a small unnamed spring just west of Tres Piedras where travelers could fill their water supply for the trip across the arid, dry land, the “No Agua Land” ahead of them. 11, No.

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", LeRoy R. Hafen and Antonio Armijo, Armijo's Journal, Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.

Lower Narrows Crossing – Cajon Pass Cutoff.

Old Spanish Trail is a 4 mile less popular green singletrack trail located near Grand Junction Colorado.

The North Branch of the Old Spanish Trail is a Congressionally designated route of the Trail running from Espanola, NM to just east of Green River, UT where it joins the Northern or Main Route of the Trail. [6][7][11]:11–12, The North Branch of the Old Spanish Trail was established by traders and trappers using Indian and Spanish colonial routes. The same trail was used by the first Americans to reach California by land, the expedition led by Jedediah Smith in November 1826.

No description for Old Spanish Trail trail has been added yet! Perhaps because of the belligerence of the Mohave to parties of mountain men in recent years, or merely to save time, Armijo attempted a short cut route southwest to the mouth of the Mojave River. [1][2] Frémont's report named a trail that had already been in use for about 15 years.

In summer, there was often no water and the oppressive heat could kill.

LeRoy R. Hafen and Antonio Armijo.

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