More specifically, the Santa Fe traders, including Gregg himself, used horse, mules and oxen to draw wagons, with a change from horses to oxen coming in 1829 when Major Bennet Riley introduced the armed guard alongside the traders in order to protect the supply wagons. The military escorts slowed the progress of the wagon train as they had to wait for the escorts at the Council Grove (Figure 2). Although it seemed to help to psychologically to give a sense of security, it was the offices in Washington D.C. that dictated the policy and the amicability of the American Indians with the Americans themselves. Calhoun notes that “not a day passes without hearing of some fresh outrage, and the utmost vigilance of the military force in this country…”
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As a result of using these animals is they were able to divine a trail that can still be seems today. Animals could stampede out of corrals within which they were placed for safety at night. Escaping animals caused problems in transporting goods and delays in travel as traders’ attempted recapture. Although, as previously stated, the American Indians occasionally captured the escaped animals and returned them for a bounty, such as food or …show more content…
The extremes of temperature, the cutting wines, and the aridity of the region are characteristic of its geographical environment as part of the Great Plains of North America” Josiah Gregg comments upon similar weather patterns stating that his travelling party “encountered a great deal of wet weather…cold protracted rains for two or three days’ duration”. On the other hand later in the journey Gregg highlights the occurrence of mirages, and that real water was sometimes passed on for a mirages. Mirages demonstrate the impact that the weather and thus the Trail had of the psychological health of the travellers. The alternatives routes, i.e. mountain route was a somewhat easier journey because of the availability of water but it was farther and was not quite as often used in the trade as the Cimarron
As a result of using these animals is they were able to divine a trail that can still be seems today. Animals could stampede out of corrals within which they were placed for safety at night. Escaping animals caused problems in transporting goods and delays in travel as traders’ attempted recapture. Although, as previously stated, the American Indians occasionally captured the escaped animals and returned them for a bounty, such as food or …show more content…
The extremes of temperature, the cutting wines, and the aridity of the region are characteristic of its geographical environment as part of the Great Plains of North America” Josiah Gregg comments upon similar weather patterns stating that his travelling party “encountered a great deal of wet weather…cold protracted rains for two or three days’ duration”. On the other hand later in the journey Gregg highlights the occurrence of mirages, and that real water was sometimes passed on for a mirages. Mirages demonstrate the impact that the weather and thus the Trail had of the psychological health of the travellers. The alternatives routes, i.e. mountain route was a somewhat easier journey because of the availability of water but it was farther and was not quite as often used in the trade as the Cimarron