Explorers, Native Americans, & Indian Wars

• The Indian and the Buffalo - Finney County
• Coronado and Quivira and Fray Juan de Padilla - Rice County
• More about Fray Juan de Padilla - Dickinson County
• El Cuartelejo - The Kansas Pueblo - Scott County State Park
• More about El Cuartelejo - Scott County
• Zebulon Pike's Route - Ottawa County
• Neosho Mission - near Shaw, Neosho County
• Shawnee Friends Mission - Johnson County
• Kansa Indian Agency - Jefferson County
• Peace Treaty on the Little Arkansas and its replacement - Park City
• Medicine Lodge Peace Treaties - Medicine Lodge
• Kansas Indian Treaty - Elyria
• Fort Dodge - Camp Supply Trail - Ford County
• Fort Hays - Ellis County
• Fort Leavenworth
• More about Fort Leavenworth
• Fort Riley & more Fort Riley - Geary County
• Fort Scott - Bourbon County
• Fort Wallace - Outpost on the Smoky Hill trail
• Lone Tree Massacre - Meade
• The Indian and the Railroad - Russell
• Union Pacific Memorial - Victoria
• Union Pacific Marker - Russell
• Fort Jewell - Sod Fort
• Old Fort Protection - Comanche County
• Lincoln County Indian Raids & the Monument at the Lincoln County Courthouse
• Last Indian Fight in Osborne County
• Last Indian Raid in Kansas - Oberlin
• Kansas Indian Reservations & The Emigrant Tribes - Wyandotte County
• Land of the Plains Indian - Clark County

Abolitionists, Bleeding Kansas, & the Civil War

• Murphy - Bromelsick House - Douglas County
• Lecompton capital of the "Bogus" legislature - Douglas County
• Battle of Blackjack - Douglas County
• Battle of Hickory Point - Jefferson County
• The Lane Trail - Brown County
• The Marais des Cygnes massacre is marked at Trading Post and at the actual site.
• John Brown Country - Miami County
• Old Stone Church - Miami County
• Battle of Osawatomie - Miami County
• Battle of the Spurs - Jackson County
• Pottawatomie Massacre - Lane
• Battle of Mine Creek - Linn County
• Osages on the Verdigris - Montgomery County
• The Baxter Springs Massacre - Cherokee County

Building Kansas

• The Cannonball Highway - Kiowa County
• The Legend of Greenbush - St. Aloysius, Greenbush
• Osage Mission - St. Paul
• St. Marys
• Pony Express Station - Hollenberg
• The Capitols of Kansas
• The First Capitol of Kansas
• The founding of Baldwin
• The stone fences of Wabaunsee County
• Alexander - Rush County
• Nicodemus
• Eureka
• Old Runnymede - northeastern Harper County
• Sod and Stubble - The Ise Family of Osborne County
• Frontier Days in Rawlins County
• The Battle of Coon Creek - Edwards County
• The Little Baptist Church - Lyon County
• Victoria & Herzog - Ellis County
• Swiss Mennonite Congregation - McPherson County
• Alexanderwohl Church - Marion County
• Turkey Red Wheat - Walton
• Old Harper Fountain - Harper
• The Gas That Wouldn't Burn - Dexter
• Springfield and Fargo - Seward County
• Arkalon and the Samson of the Cimarron - Seward County
• Opening of the Cherokee Outlet - Cowley County
• Birthplace of Farm Credit - Pawnee County
• The First REA project in Kansas - Brown County
• The Wetmore Calaboose - Wetmore's old jail, Nemaha County

Longhorn Cattle & Cowtowns

• Abilene
• Caldwell has strong ties to the great cattle drives up the Chisholm trail. - Sumner County
• The Chisholm Trail - near Mayfield, Sumner County
• The Chisholm Trail - North Wichita, Sedgwick County
• Longhorn Cattle Drives - Grenola, Elk County
• Ellsworth - Cowtown & Fort
• Dodge City - The wildest cowtown

The Santa Fe Trail

• The Overland Trails - Johnson County old version
• Havana Stage Station - Osage County
• Council Grove - Morris County
• Old Lost Spring - Marion County
• Cow Creek - Rice County
• Fort Zarah - Barton County
• Pawnee Rock - Barton County
• Junction of the Fort Larned Military Road and the Wet Route of the Santa Fe Trail - Pawnee County
• Fort Dodge - Ford County
• The Road to Santa Fe- Ford County
• Cimarron - Gray County
• Santa Fe Trail Ruts - Kearny County
• Chouteau's Island - Kearny County
• Wagon Bed Springs - Grant County
• La Jornada & Point of Rocks - Morton County

Wagons West - The Oregon Trail

• The Overland Trails - Johnson County old version
• The California-Oregon Trail - Westmoreland, Pottawatomie County
• Oregon Trail Nature Park - Pottawatomie County
• The 49'ers Cemetery - Pottawatomie County
• The Oregon Trail - St. Marys, Pottawatomie County
• The Vieux Ford: old version & a newer version
• The Alcove Springs
• The Marysville Historic District

People of Kansas History

• Education Pioneer Howard Barnard - Rush County
• The Benders - Sex, Murder, & Mystery; Labette County had it all.
  There's now a new version of the Bender story.
• George Washington Carver & his Ness County farm
• Prudence Crandall - Elk Falls
• Frederick Funston - Iola
• George Grant - Victoria
• "Dutch Bill" Greiffenstein - Wichita
• C. J. "Buffalo" Jones - Garden City
• Carry Nation - Barber County
• Moses Shane - Florence
• Dr. Clyde Tombaugh, Discoverer of Pluto - Burdett
• Chief Tonganoxie - Leavenworth County
• Louis Vieux - Pottawatomie County
• William Allen White - Lyon County

Kansas Places

• Abilene & more Abilene - Dickinson County
• Atchison - Atchison County
• Beersheba - Finney County
• A Distinctive Landmark, - The Chase County Courthouse
• Chase County & The Bluestem Pasture Region of Kansas
• Big Basin - Clark County
• The Bluestem Pasture Region of Kansas - Greenwood County
• Bomber Builders - Wyandotte County
• The Flint Hills - Wabaunsee County
• Garfield, originally called Camp Criley, has a unique chapel.
• Camp Funston
• Elwood
• Geodetic Center of North America
• Girard - Crawford County
• Hollenberg Pony Express Station - Washington County
• The High Plains - Wallace County
• Highway K-177
• Larkinburg - Atchison & Jackson County
• Kansas City - Gateway to Kansas City
• Lawrence
• Leavenworth and the Old Soldiers Home
• Matfield Green - Chase County
• Mormon Grove - Atchison County
• Neodesha in Wilson County is famous for its place in oil industry history.
    · The Opening of the Mid-Continent Oil Field
    · The Norman No. 1 Oil Well
    · Actual Site of the Norman No. 1 Oil Well
• Tour Newton - Harvey County
• Norwood - Franklin County
• Ottawa in Franklin County is home to many beautiful homes & buildings
    · Downtown Ottawa Historic District
    · The Frankin County Courthouse
    · The Centennial Cabin
    · The Old Depot Museum
• Pittsburg - Crawford County
• Salina - Saline County
• The "Star of the West" Saloon - Leavenworth County
• Topeka & more Topeka - Shawnee County
• Towanda - Butler County
• Caldwell - Sumner County
• Sumner County and the Chisholm Trail
• Montgomery County
• Reamsville - Smith County
• Salina - Saline County
• Strawberry - Washington County
• Strong City - Chase County
• Troy - Doniphan County
• Waconda Springs - Mitchell County

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