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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. | 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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Many of the settlers along the trail in present-day southern Utah, Nevada, and California arrived via the [[Mormon Trail]] and the [[Mormon Trail to Southern California]] which overlapped the Old Spanish Trail from about Cedar City, Utah to Los Angeles California. | Many of the settlers along the trail in present-day southern Utah, Nevada, and California arrived via the [[Mormon Trail]] and the [[Mormon Trail to Southern California]] which overlapped the Old Spanish Trail from about Cedar City, Utah to Los Angeles California. | ||
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