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See America PosterWhen you travel, do you often wonder what happened at "this place" in the past? Who lived here? What were they like? How did they live their daily lives? If that's the case for you, here at Legends of America, you will find content-rich travel destinations of the American West, including Route 66, ghost towns, outlaws, treasure tales, and even a few ghosts that we bump into along the way.

 

Filled with both vintage and current photographs, Legends of America focuses on small out of the way places and hidden attractions that appeal to the nostalgic and historic minded, giving you more than just a paragraph, we will take you there!

 

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Bent's Fort, ColoradoBent's Fort, Colorado - Situated on the north bank of the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado, this non-military post was one of the most significant outposts on the Santa Fe Trail and as the principal outpost of American civilization on the southwestern Plains, was instrumental in shaping the destiny of the area. In the heart of Indian country, buffalo hunting grounds and at the crossroads of key overland routes, it was a fur trading center and rendezvous point for traders and Indians; a way station and supply center for emigrants and caravans; and the chief point of contact and cultural transmission between white settlers and Indians of the southern Plains. In its later years it was a military staging base for the U.S. conquest of New Mexico.

 

Today, the is designated as a National Historic Landmark. The reconstructed old adobe trading post features living historians recreate the sights, sounds, and smells of the past with guided tours, demonstrations, and special events.

 

Fort Chadbourne, TexasTexas Forts Trail - Scattered across the state from the Red River to the Rio Grande River, are the remains of of a once a formidable military presence on the frontier -- Texas' nineteenth-century forts. Though the Texas Forts Trail can't possibly cover the more than four dozen old forts and presidios across the vast Lone Star State, this 650 mile Scenic Byway certainly provides and glimpse into many of these lonely outposts once situated on the  dangerous and hills and dales of central Texas.

 

From 1848 to 1900, the U.S. Army built 44 major posts and set up more than 100 temporary camps in Texas. In addition to the many military forts established by the U.S. Army, a number of earlier Republic-era forts, private bastions, and Spanish Presidios were built and abandoned across Texas. Today, these many sites range from ghostly ruins, to historically accurate reconstructions, to nothing but a historical marker to identify their locations. 

 


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A mountain man.Fur Trading in the American West - One of the earliest and most important industries in North America, the American fur trade played a major role in the development of the United States and Canada for more than 300 years. This is just the beginning of a new category that will continue to grow. This new category encompasses hundred of explorers, trappers, traders and mountain men, as well as the Great Fur Trade Companies, and a growing list of tales including In a Trapper's Bivouac, Incidents of the Fur Trade, Trading Posts and Their Stories, Trappers, Traders & Pathfinders, and soon, dozens more.


 two-humped camelCamel Caravans of the American Deserts - The story of the experiment made in the mid 1800’s to utilize the Arabian camel as a beast of burden on the arid plains of Arizona , New Mexico and the deserts of the Colorado River is one of the little known chapters in the history of the Southwest. 

 


A Photo Essay on American Patriotism, Traditions, History & Heroes - Reaching into the past, we've gathered a number of prints and photos celebrating our patriotism and traditions.

 


Mining in the American West - Though various types of mines have existed across the nation, almost from the very discovery of America, those in the American West, are and were, the most plentiful and the history they've left in their wakes, is of romance, fortunes made and lost, hardships, greed, Indian Wars, and numerous crusty old ghost towns.

 


Arizona's Many Lost Mines - Hundreds of "lost mine" stories have been localized everywhere over the West. The richest always was somewhere out in the desert, beyond water, or within almost inaccessible mountains, where wild Indians guarded the golden secret handed down to them by their forefathers.

 


Haunted Forts & Battle Grounds in the American West - Old Forts, like so many other historic places in the American West tend to have their share of ghostly tales. The history of these forts, coupled with the violence and tragedy so often accompanying them, provide a ripe atmosphere for dozens of ghost stories.

 


 

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