Danny & Jeanette, I can't tell you for sure that no wagon trains used the Santa Fe Trail in 1894, but it may be that your family was in Syracuse in a wagon in 1894. The railroad reached New Mexico in the late 1870s bringing an end to wide use of the trail. Also, the Indians were driven onto reservations by 1890 (Sand Creek Massacre occurred in 1864, Little Big Horn in 1876) so there was probably little need for large organized wagon trains by 1894. Autos were another ten or so years away. (My dad's family roamed around Oklahoma in a wagon, probably as late as the 1920s, but they just followed cotton harvests, farm or logging work or whatever they could find.) Of course, US Hwy 50 follows the general route of the Santa Fe Trail through Kansas, and SE Colorado, so you could say the Santa Fe Trail is still in use. -Judy