Cattle Drive in Raton Mountains

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Stock #: 257766
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Trinidad
State: Colorado (CO)
County: Las Animas
Publisher: Detroit Publishing Co.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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The old Santa Fe trail, over which the cattle are being driven, is one of interest as belonging to the ante-railroad period of thrilling adventure, for by that trail journeyed every overland stage, every caravan, every prairie schooner, every emigrant, and every soldier cavalcade bound to the Southwest in the early days. The Raton tunnel at an elevation of 7,600 feet is near the top and is the highest point reached by the Santa Fe

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