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 === Settlers  ===
-Europeans did not tend to settle along this trade route in communities. However, because of the slave trade along trail the Indian tribes were cautious, hostile, and themselves engaged in slave trading and raids.
+The opening of easier wagon-friendly routes to the north (Pony Express or Overland Trail) and south (Butterfield Overland Mail) resulted in few Europeans settling along this difficult pack-animal route.<ref>Elizabeth von Till Warren, "The Old Spanish National Historic Trail" in ''Old Spanish Trail Association'' at http://www.oldspanishtrail.org/trail_history.php (accessed 29 July 2009).</ref> However, because of the slave trade along trail the Indian tribes were cautious, hostile, and themselves engaged in slave trading and raids.
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