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  • 469. Lamar Welcome Center and Features (MR)

    Stone statue of a woman wearing heavy shoes, a bonnet, carrying a gun, and surrounded by children. Located on a street corner.
    Madonna of the Trail in Lamar, CO
    Lamar, Colorado, is south of the Arkansas River and near the Santa Fe Trail. Lamar was founded in 1886, after trading on the Santa Fe Trail was diminished due to the railroad reaching Santa Fe in 1880. The town was organized by the Santa Fe Railroad as a rail head for shipping cattle. The National and the Goodnight cattle trails passed near here. Therefore, Lamar represents the end of the Santa Fe Trail era.

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    Large, engraved stone statue of a pioneer woman wearing heavy boots, carrying a gun and surrounded by children.
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