William Becknell leaves Franklin,
Missouri with a pack train of mules loaded with trade goods for
Comanche country. Becknell succeeds in opening upa trade
route to Santa Fe, where he made hefty profits for his
troubles.
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The only problem with this
route was the 800 miles of open country controlled by the Comanche,
Kiowa, and Wichita. A few years later, famed explorer and
mountain man, Jedidiah Smith, would be killed by Comanche on his
first trip over the trail.
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