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The Old Snake Trade Route

by | May 15, 2010 | Travel & Preservation

Traveling a little-known route from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Bismarck, North Dakota.
Indian trade routes criss-crossed the country generations before any Euroamerican travelers arrived on foot, horseback or via covered wagons. The native people used the trading routes to exchange goods predominant in one area but rare or harder to obtain in another area. One of the common routes in the West linked the Pueblo Indian communiti


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