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Missouri Historical Review, Volume 69 Issue 1, October 1974

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Title	Missouri Historical Review, Volume 69 Issue 1, October 1974
Volume	69
Issue	1
Month	October
Year	1974
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2008
ISSN	0026-6581

Title	Page 1
Page Number	1
Article Title	Thomas Hart Benton and the Santa Fe Trail
Author	Sayles, Stephen
Subject	Westward Expansion
Volume	69
Issue	1
Month	October
Year	1974
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2009
ISSN	0026-6582
Transcription	Thomas Hart Benton and the Santa Fe Trail BY STEPHEN SAYLES* From the vantage point of a thirty-year perspective, former Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri recalled the fatal attraction of the internal provinces of Mexico to the people of the western states and territories during the early years of the nineteenth century. "The name of Mexico" he wrote, "the synonyme [sic] of gold and silver mines possessed always an invincible charm...." Not even the hostility of the Spanish authorities in Mexico City and Santa Fe, with penalties of life imprisonment and hard labor in the mines, could "still the dazzled imaginations and daring spirits of the Great West adventured upon the enterprise; and failure and misfortune, chains and labor, were not sufficient to intimidate others."1 * Stephen Sayles received the B.A. Degree in history at Chico State College and the M. A. Degree in history at California State University, Chico. He is currently a doctoral candidate in history at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 1 Thomas Hart Benton, Thirty Years' View; or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820-1850 (New York, 1854), I, 41. In 1822, the mines produced $214,128 in gold and $5,543,251,- 4s, 6d, in silver. Baltimore Niles Register, April 30, 1825, 131. Hereafter cited as Niles Register.

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