Old Spanish Trail (trade route)

The Old Spanish Trail was a long path that people used a long time ago to trade and travel from Mexico to California. This path was made by the Spanish, who first came to this area hundreds of years ago. They used this path to go back and forth between the two places and to trade things like clothes, food, and animals. People traveled by walking, by horse, and sometimes by wagons. This path was very important because it allowed people to move around and share things with each other, even before there were cars or planes. Today, we still know about the Old Spanish Trail because it helped shape the history and culture of the people who lived in the Southwest United States.