Iowa Cello Book

Images and commentary

Driftless Images by Daniel Swilley

Driftless Perspectives by Devon Bennett

Flatlay Media

Santa Fe Trail Echoes by Greg A. Steinke

Photographs and Commentary by

Joan Myers

Round Mound, New Mexico, 1982

Round Mound was a major landmark for wagon trains. Often trail travelers scaled the summit and described the sight and sounds of the caravan passing below: “The wagons marched slowly in four parallel columns, but in broken lines, often at intervals of many rods between. The unceasing ‘crack, crack,’ of the wagoners’ whips, resembling the frequent reports of distant guns . . .” (Josiah Gregg, 1831).

Iron Springs Station, Colorado, 1983

The stretch of trail between Bent’s Fort and Trinidad was long and barren in the nineteenth century and remains so today. These post stubs are all that remain in the rectangular corral that enclosed the station’s livestock. (Not too far away from this site also lies the remains of one of the former Japanese American Internment Camps at Amache.)

Cañonci to, New Mexico, 1981

Cañoncito figured conspicuously in the Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass. The Union forces slipped behind the Confederate front line and burned the enemy’s supply wagons here. The battle proved the turning point of the war in the West.