Kansas – Frontier Traveler

Fort Larned Kansas – Along the Santa Fe Trail

Back in 2010, we stopped at Fort Larned, located about five miles outside Larned, Kansas. The Fort, which was established[…]

Guest post by Site Administrator Richard Gould, Pawnee Indian Museum. Richard has a phenomenal knowledge of the history of the[…]

For the settlers on the frontier, the construction of a barn sometimes took precedence even over the building of a[…]

With the signing of the Homestead Act and thousands of settlers coming to the prairie, the Soddy became the most[…]

Last fall, Vicki and I spent a great day at this week’s National Park Getaway – Fort Scott, Kansas. Fort[…]

For centuries the tallgrass prairie covered over 250 million acres of middle America from Canada to Texas. Teaming with[…]