Tales of the Trail: Research Unveils Major Discovery on Santa Fe Trail

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With artifacts, records and backing from experts, Lawson lays claim to owning a key location along the Santa Fe Trail — the 19th century wagon train route to the Southwest. Today, the area where Becknell made the ferry crossing is dry due to the river’s changing course, but in the 1800s the area provided one of the narrowest crossing points on the Missouri River — a site known not only to Becknell, but to explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.