Junior Wagon Master
Wagon Master Jake is ready to hit the Helen Kilian and Coreen Kolisko Welcome! Glad to have you on the Santa Fe Trail wagon train! I'm Jake, by the way, the Wagon Master. It's good that you happened by, because I'm in need of helpers up and down the Trail! After you learn about the Santa Fe Trail and complete the activities, I'll make you an official Junior Wagon Master! Hopefully you'll bring friends and family along on this adventure, so there's four different activity booklets for you to choose from based upon your age. When you finish a section of the trail, you'll earn a patch (see below). There are four sections to the trail, so you have plenty of places to explore! Junior Wagon Master - Freighter Edition (Ages 9-11) The program booklets are available at the following Santa Fe Trail sites. (small file pdf, 70 KB) These are large files. Please be patient. Freighter - Front and Back Covers Freighter - Eastern with Introduction (Franklin, Missouri, to Gardner, Kansas), 5.5 MB, PDF Freighter - Central (Council Grove, Kansas, to Dodge City, Kansas), 3.8 MB, PDF Freighter - Mountain and Cimarron Routes (Cimarron, Kansas, to Watrous, New Mexico, or Elkhart, Kansas, to Las Vegas, New Mexico), Freighter - Western (Pecos, New Mexico, to Santa Fe, New Mexico), 3 MB, PDF Freighter - Glossary and Site List Questions? Contact us! File viewing requires use of Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click here to download the program for free. 
Be a Junior Wagon Master! Explore the trail and earn up to four patches!
Helen Kilian
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Did You Know?
The historic Santa Fe Trail spanned 900 miles of the Great Plains between Missouri, in the United States, and Santa Fe, then in Mexico.