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Wagon Tracks
Volume 28
Issue 4 Wagon Tracks Volume 28, Issue 4 (August
2014)
Article 8
2014
Activities Along the Trail
Wagon Tracks Staff
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Activities Along the Trail 
La Castenada, a Harvey House hotel in Las 
Vegas, New Mexico, has been purchased by 
Allan Affeldt. Affeldt has shown his willing-
ness and ability to restore historic buildings 
with his past purchase and renovation of La 
Posada, another Harvey House in Winslow, 
Arizona. La Castenada was last open in 
1948. 7he Bent's Fort Chapter will visit Las 
Vegas in early August. Photo: Ruth Friesen 
7he 14th annual Grasslands Heritage Festival was held in June at the Morton 
County Museum in Elkhart, Kansas. 7he festival is a celebration of the Santa Fe 
Trail and the ecosystem of the Cimarron National Grassland. Enjoying a wagon 
ride during Children's Day at the festival are {left to right) Kayden White, Elsie 
Blackmore and Emerson Plummer. 7he team and wagon belong to Bill and Myrna 
Barnes of the Cimarron Cutoff Chapter. Photo: Myrna Barnes 
I Chapter Reports 
Chapters are listed in order from the beginning of 
the Trail in Missouri westward. 
Missouri River Outfitters 
President Larry Short 
3930 S Jackson Drive #106, Independence, MO 64057 
816-835-4397 + ldshort@comcast.net 
At our April Membership/Board meeting we presented our 
biennial awards. A wards of Merit were presented to Lafayette 
County Commissioners, represented by Commissioner Tracy 
Dyer, and Saline County Commissioners, represented by 
Commissioner Monty Fenner, for their approval and work in 
the installation of the Santa Fe National Historic Trail local 
tour route signs in their respective counties. Mary Conrad, 
Vice President of MRO, was presented an Award of Achieve-
ment for her devoted work in the preservation of the trails and 
service to MRO. An Award of Appreciation was presented to 
Mayor Matt Mallinson and the City of Sugar Creek for their 
efforts to preserve and promote the Santa Fe, Oregon and 
California National Historic Trails from the Upper Indepen-
dence/VVayne City Landing through Sugar Creek to where it 
enters Independence, MO. 
The Santa Fe Trail Geo Tour was completed and went active 
on April 15. It has been gratifying to read the comments by 
the many geocachers as they visit the locations of the caches 
along the Santa Fe Trail. Especially satisfying is the number 
of comments that we get with regard to opening new sites to 
these first time visitors and making them aware of many more 
hi storl c sites along the Trail. 
In May the MRO board made a presentation of the Roger 
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