Great Osage Trail
Native American trail that became the first phase of the Santa Fe Trail.
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The Great Osage Trail, also called the Osage Trace or the Kaw Trace, was a Native American trail through the Midwest and Plains States, originally blazed by buffalo and other migrating wildlife.
Quick Facts
- Also known as
- Osage Trace, Kaw Trace
- Origin
- Native American trail blazed by buffalo and migrating wildlife
- Eastern terminus
- Near Franklin and Boonville, Missouri
- Western destination
- Santa Fe
- New Mexico
- and Old Mexico
- Route later followed by
- U.S. Route 24 from Franklin, Missouri westward
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Iroquois Tree of Peace and the Trail
On October 24, 1999, Iroquois chieftain Jake Swamp oversaw a ceremonial planting of an Iroquois Tree of Peace alongside the Great Osage Trail route, south of Lexington Street in Independence, Missouri.
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Sources
Compiled from Wikipedia and the sources listed below. Text from Wikipedia is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is adapted from it.
- Wikipedia: Great Osage Trail (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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