# @nationalparktrust on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CsUTSCQID3f
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17569660-nationalparktrust-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/68fabc8733.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-05-16T20:20:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Park Trust (@nationalparktrust) — https://gondola.cc/nationalparktrust

## Caption

Bon Jovi once sang, “I'm riding somewhere south of Heaven; I'm heading back to Santa Fe.” While we can't confirm he was talking about the Santa Fe National Historic Trail, we like to think he was. 😜

The Santa Fe National Historic Trail was a bustling commercial highway of the 1800s, connecting Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. This trail saw it all: military campaigns, gold rushes, and traveling missionaries! 

But perhaps the most significant event along the trail was the Mexican-American War, which broke out in 1846. A few months after the war, America’s Army of the West followed the path westward to successfully invade Mexico. After the war ended in 1848, the Santa Fe Trail became a national road connecting the more settled parts of the United States to the new southwest territories.

#SantaFeNationalHistoricTrail #NationalParkService #NewMexico #Colorado #Kansas #Missouri #Oklahoma #Trail #West #Music #Musician #America #AmericanDream #AmericanWest #Cows #Mexico #War 
📸: nationalparkservice 

Image 1: Two cows stand in a field next to a Santa Fe Trail sign.

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colorado, oklahoma, missouri, americanwest, trail, west, mexico, americandream, music, america, musician, kansas, santafenationalhistorictrail, nationalparkservice, newmexico, war, cows

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