The Boston Globe, November 20th, 1996
SANTA FE - Falling snow dusted the buckskin costume of the traveler, who told the crowd in the plaza that while he toted a rifle, he came in peace. "We're happy to be here," said Jeff Hengesbaugh, a descendant of explorer Zebulon Pike. Dressed as William Becknell, a Missouri trader, he reenacted the moment in November 1821 when free trade and deregulation created a merchant trail long before NAFTA. Mexico had just won freedom from Spain and from protectionist bureaucrats in Madrid. Consumer goods, like the "brightly colored cloth" of which Becknell boasted, began an irreversible flow from the ...
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