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...
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.
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!
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. 🦬
You are one of my most favorite UA-cam 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.
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.
Kansas has a lot of great history in it. People would do well to view it more than a state that you drive through or fly over to get from one place to another. Got another one from Kansas after the Washington D.C. series wraps up. Thanks for watching!
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.
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.
James Smith - Thanks! I’ll keep that in mind. I’ve got another video from Dodge City on this channel but missed the Dalton Gang hideout. That would’ve been a cool one. Thanks!
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
Great video, I enjoyed it. I was looking for hiking videos to see if anyone has hiked the old Santa Fe Trail. I’m glad I came across your video and channel. New sub here. Great channel. I am a army and law enforcement veteran, I live history and the outdoors. Your channel is right up my ally.
Lots of history in SW Kansas! Dodge City! Stevens county and it's county seat wars with the surrounding settlements that are mere foundations and some rubble now! Awesome pheasant and quail hunting around those settlements! Wagon Bed Springs and Jedediah Strong Smith! Lt. Kidder Massacre Site! Although this one is in NW Kansas. Watch Dances with Wolves and see some Kansas history.
Mike D - Thanks! Glad that you liked it. Should have new content up weekly. If you know anyone else who’s into history, please give them a heads up. We’re looking the balance the ratio of history content to cat videos here on UA-cam 😁
I've heard it explained that it was a series of trails with a single destination. Not just one single continuous trail. Some may have been used more than others depending on conditions. Nicely done.
Thanks! I think that you're right in that there were multiple tracks/trails that they followed but there were definitely some that were used heavily enough to have caused those ruts. Pretty interesting to see. There are some for the Oregon Trail as well that I need to go find.
The SFT was in use for about 60 years. There were several different routes, cutoffs and spur trails. Besides the different trails most trains traveled in four columns.
Those settlers didn't normally ride on their wagons. They walked beside them. Oxen were preferred for pulling the load. But the oxen could only pull so much. Thus the people walked most of the way across those plains. Just imagine! I have heard that some went insane because day after day, week after week, all that was to be seen was knee to thigh-high grass. Like being adrift on a green ocean.
The Santa Fe trail was never an emigrant trail. I'm sure some did travel, but the vast majority of traffic was commercial trade between the US and Mexico. After the Mexican war, military traffic was a large addition.
4:27 you can see a diagonal pathway as wide as that bridge and unfortunately they didn't get a better picture of a lookout point that they have at that Kansas site where you can clearly see the ruts it's really breathtaking
Better ruts can be found near Baldwin City, Kansas. Also nearby is the Battle of Blackjack site where John Brown defeated the Pro Slavery force of Henry C. Pate. John Brown captured all of Pates men.
There is a great spot in Kansas City where you can see ruts at a crossing for the Santa Fe trail as well. I used to drive by them every day when I lived there. www.southwestdiscovered.com/santa-fe-trail-kansas-city-massive-swale-rut-at-minor-park/
sadly I could NOT see anything ruts or old tracks form the wagons, due to them all being covered now..wondering, since this is a bit of history as well, ever think to go a route or find a historical route that the famous Donner Party took and then ended up eating half of the dead that died in the winter of 1846/47?? just wondered.. Gruesome yes, but History as well...
Honestly I didn't see any evidence of the tracks. Were they covered by the walkways? When you did the overhead view with the drone I thought I saw other wagon train tracks, but not were the walkway was.
Dont Care - Yeah, it’s hard to tell unless you know what you’re looking for. The tracks aren’t “tracks” like you’d think. It’s more of a depression or ditch in the ground. It’s where the walkways were. Also, some of the vegetation looks different where the rugs are.
When the vegetation is dead during the winter the trail tracks are easier to see. I Iive in Dodge City and go out to the trail tracks just to enjoy the peace and solitude and imagine what it was like back in those days.
“The Santa Fe Trail served as a thoroughfare for countless traders, pioneers and America’s military, and it played a crucial role in America’s westward expansion.” www.history.com/.amp/topics/westward-expansion/santa-fe-trail
Isn’t this the greatest Country JD? These adventures tell the story of American determination and grit. Great job!
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...
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!
Awesome! Thank you!
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 😃
Pamela Kern Thanks!
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.
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!
That is awesome! So glad that you are enjoying the channel. Perhaps your daughters might find a few that'll spark their interest in history as well :)
Awesome video. I enjoyed it so much!
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. 🦬
You are one of my most favorite UA-cam 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.
Thank you so much 😀
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!
I guess no videos on you're page means it never happened🚫
@@DukeCity.S.V I don't have videos either....but things did happen in my life.
Good to see tourism spots in Kansas- an oft ignored state .
Kansas has a lot of great history in it. People would do well to view it more than a state that you drive through or fly over to get from one place to another. Got another one from Kansas after the Washington D.C. series wraps up. Thanks for watching!
You should have stopped at Mahaffie house in Olathe. It was the last stop on the stagecoach before heading out into the wilderness.
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.
Interesting!
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.
James Smith - Thanks! I’ll keep that in mind. I’ve got another video from Dodge City on this channel but missed the Dalton Gang hideout. That would’ve been a cool one. Thanks!
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
Oh wow! How cool!
Another great one!
Great video, I enjoyed it. I was looking for hiking videos to see if anyone has hiked the old Santa Fe Trail. I’m glad I came across your video and channel. New sub here. Great channel. I am a army and law enforcement veteran, I live history and the outdoors. Your channel is right up my ally.
Thanks so much! That really does mean a lot.
Thank you SO MUCH for your service(s). ❤️
Lots of history in SW Kansas!
Dodge City!
Stevens county and it's county seat wars with the surrounding settlements that are mere foundations and some rubble now! Awesome pheasant and quail hunting around those settlements!
Wagon Bed Springs and Jedediah Strong Smith!
Lt. Kidder Massacre Site! Although this one is in NW Kansas.
Watch Dances with Wolves and see some Kansas history.
Check out Ft Union in NM. Wagon train ruts there plus interesting remains of the fort and visitor center.
Nicely done. I’ve subscribed.
Mike D - Thanks! Glad that you liked it. Should have new content up weekly. If you know anyone else who’s into history, please give them a heads up. We’re looking the balance the ratio of history content to cat videos here on UA-cam 😁
The History Underground I’ll be happy to tweet them out on You Tube.
I've heard it explained that it was a series of trails with a single destination. Not just one single continuous trail. Some may have been used more than others depending on conditions. Nicely done.
Thanks! I think that you're right in that there were multiple tracks/trails that they followed but there were definitely some that were used heavily enough to have caused those ruts. Pretty interesting to see. There are some for the Oregon Trail as well that I need to go find.
The SFT was in use for about 60 years. There were several different routes, cutoffs and spur trails. Besides the different trails most trains traveled in four columns.
Live in Northern California, we have a similar thing with the Oregon Trail.
Those settlers didn't normally ride on their wagons. They walked beside them. Oxen were preferred for pulling the load. But the oxen could only pull so much. Thus the people walked most of the way across those plains. Just imagine! I have heard that some went insane because day after day, week after week, all that was to be seen was knee to thigh-high grass. Like being adrift on a green ocean.
Another great video bub.
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The history of Franklin, Mo is very interesting. William Becknell is buried outside Clarksville, Tx.
The Santa Fe trail was never an emigrant trail. I'm sure some did travel, but the vast majority of traffic was commercial trade between the US and Mexico. After the Mexican war, military traffic was a large addition.
Awesome I AMA big fan of Billy the Kid
So cool that's neet to see thank you!
4:27 you can see a diagonal pathway as wide as that bridge and unfortunately they didn't get a better picture of a lookout point that they have at that Kansas site where you can clearly see the ruts it's really breathtaking
If you visit Ft Leavenworth you can still see where the wagons came up out of the Missouri River.
That’s mad you can still see those ruts, in 1850 my house I live in had already been built 750 years ! 🤔
Wow!
Thanks.
Oregon trail ruts in Wyoming, too.
Interesting.
Pretty cool place. Very close to Dodge City as well.
Better ruts can be found near Baldwin City, Kansas. Also nearby is the Battle of Blackjack site where John Brown defeated the Pro Slavery force of Henry C. Pate. John Brown captured all of Pates men.
Respect
Two questions. Is your UAS registered and do you have your remote pilot certificate? Otherwise great video.
There is a great spot in Kansas City where you can see ruts at a crossing for the Santa Fe trail as well. I used to drive by them every day when I lived there. www.southwestdiscovered.com/santa-fe-trail-kansas-city-massive-swale-rut-at-minor-park/
Thanks for the heads up
There are still ruts in Missouri.
Did you go to Fort Larned National Historic Site, by chance?
I didn't but I may have to add that to the list.
sadly I could NOT see anything ruts or old tracks form the wagons, due to them all being covered now..wondering, since this is a bit of history as well, ever think to go a route or find a historical route that the famous Donner Party took and then ended up eating half of the dead that died in the winter of 1846/47?? just wondered.. Gruesome yes, but History as well...
i helped dig up a roman road in Germany and found ruts' in sold rock that were 6 to 8 ins. deep while looking for ww11 bombs .
Wow!!!
Honestly I didn't see any evidence of the tracks. Were they covered by the walkways? When you did the overhead view with the drone I thought I saw other wagon train tracks, but not were the walkway was.
Dont Care - Yeah, it’s hard to tell unless you know what you’re looking for. The tracks aren’t “tracks” like you’d think. It’s more of a depression or ditch in the ground. It’s where the walkways were. Also, some of the vegetation looks different where the rugs are.
When the vegetation is dead during the winter the trail tracks are easier to see. I Iive in Dodge City and go out to the trail tracks just to enjoy the peace and solitude and imagine what it was like back in those days.
They run horizontally too the new walkways! People think they run along them,but if you look at the drone veiw,they are clear as day!
who's playing the harp?
That's a national park? How did you get to fly a drone? Did you get permission? I know that they don't allow drones.
Not a frog, a toad.
had to leave for the music ----pro stop the music on video's.
ruts? what ruts?
In the low spots.
Did I miss something?
Do some research dude. The Santa Fe Trail was a commercial route of trade. Few "settlers" using this trail.
“The Santa Fe Trail served as a thoroughfare for countless traders, pioneers and America’s military, and it played a crucial role in America’s westward expansion.”
www.history.com/.amp/topics/westward-expansion/santa-fe-trail
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