Linda Peters, president of the Wagon Bed Springs Chapter of the Santa Fe Trail Association, talks about the Santa Fe Trail at the final "History at High Noon" event, hosted by the Finney County Historical Society and Museum on Wednesday.

The use of the Santa Fe Trail 200 years ago grew to become more well-known following William Becknell, a pioneer farmer from Franklin, Mo., and five many others built a excursion to market items.

Becknell’s story and the popularization of the path were being reviewed at the last spring Finney County Historical Society and Museum “Historical past at High Noon” celebration on Wednesday.

Linda Peters, president of the Wagon Bed Springs chapter of the Santa Fe Trail Affiliation, gave the presentation.

Beckness wasn’t the very first particular person to go out on the Santa Fe Path for trade, Peters explained, but he did it at the ideal time just after Mexico acquired their independence from Spain and traders have been welcome.

“The persons that had absent right before had been genuinely using a possibility, they could have been killed, they could have been in prison, definitely could have been arrested for a although and all of their goods confiscated,” she stated.