Amazing Remains of the Santa Fe Trail | History Traveler Episode 9

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Good video!! Where I live in Kansas, I can travel about 30 miles south and be on the Santa Fe trail or travel about 30 miles north and be on the Oregon/California/Pony Express/Mormon Trails. Have travel the entirety of the Santa Fe Trail about 5 times and it never gets old for am always seeing something new. Yep - there are RUTS all along the trail that are visible and at some places you are allowed to actually walk among them. Spots along the Oregon/California/Mormon Trails you can visit RUTS where the wheels of the wagons actually dug into rocks up to the axles of the wagons. Amazing how the people that traveled these trails endured the hardships and such while in the "modern" world...

Another great one!

How cool is that. You can see the ruts clearly on the aerial view. 👍

Just discovered your videos today and I'm hooked! Great job! Keep em coming!

I live by the old trail, I know spots you can still see the ruts! Pretty cool stuff

The trail ruts are amazing. I LOVE exploring wagon trail ruts. Great video 😃

You're Awesome! I to am a history nerd and it drives my daughters crazy. I do genealogy so they grew up in cemeteries and I LOVE that you visit as often as you do!

Stumbled upon this video of one of my fav channels. in 1981, while crossing Kansas on I-70, heading to Colorado, we stopped at a rest area. It looked like a endless grassy field on both sides of the highway. A sign on the rest stop building said if you walk out back behind the building a ways, there are ruts. So I did. And I walked a good ways out into some tall grass and suddenly where were fresh looking muddy tracks. I wished I had taken a photo. Was it really the trail or a tourist set up? Lol. Hard to say but it def impressed my then 22 yo self.

Good to see tourism spots in Kansas- an oft ignored state .

You should check out Windlass Hill in Nebraska. We stopped there a couple years ago while on a vacation out west and it is really cool, with very visible Oregon Trail ruts. Thanks for making such great videos! Military history isn't my emphasis, but I love presidential history, and pretty much any other part of American history. I'm really enjoying watching through your videos. If you are anywhere near the Chester, IL area, I would love to see videos of the French Colonial Area like the Pierre Menard Home, Fort de Chartres, Ste. Genevieve, and Prairie du Rocher.

Awesome videos!! I retire from the military next month and am planning on doing what you are doing. Keep up the great work!

Funny I did a bike tour from Florida to Denver 2 yrs ago and stood exactly where you are in front of that map😆 Not just wagons but old model T's traveled to frequent water holes such as you looked at I'm the same guy who commented that I did a bike tour from Amsterdam to Rome on one of your posts

You are one of my most favorite YouTube channels beside my on channel.. I love learning about history and your videos teaches me a lot. Hope you keep doing this until you run out of history to do reord.. That maybe a long long time. Thank you for your amazing works.

Awesome video. I enjoyed it so much!

Thanks for the video. If you’re ever back out this way I live in Dodge City and would be happy to show you around town. Not much to see in regards to the old Dodge City but you can visit Boot Hill Museum, Mueller-Schmidt House and the Santa Fe Depot and in Meade, Ks you can visit the Dalton Gang Hideout and also tour some of the buildings in Ft Dodge if you haven’t done so already when you were out this way. Safe travels.

Nicely done. I’ve subscribed.

I’ve photos of settler’s wagon wheel ruts from around east of the Guernsey Reservoir area in Wyoming. Really makes one appreciate what life, the struggles and tribulations, would have been like during the earlier frontier days. 🦬

I grew up in an area near Burlingame, KS, which was a major stop on the trail. As a kid we used to own property where the trail had passed through. You could tell where the trail had been based on looking at the hedge rows that separated different properties . Normally, the hedge trees were thick, but in the area where the trail passed through there where big gaps with out any vegetation because the soil was too compacted.

Another great video bub.