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Very wide ruts and swales covered in green grass at Swanson Swales in Rice County, KS

Very wide ruts and swales covered in green grass at Swanson Swales in Rice County, KS

These ruts are lined up eight or nine wide and very deep. This is the area where wagon masters would begin or end using double and triple teams of oxen and mules for the trip across the ford of the Little Arkansas which accounts for why the trail widened out so much right there.

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Santa Fe National Historic Trail, Code: SAFE

Swanson Swales, Rice County, Kansas
Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Latitude: 37.9892997741699, Longitude: -99.3414993286133

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20160606

06/06/2016

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Santa Fe National Historic Trail
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