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California National Historic Trail - Various States, CA,CO,ID,KS,MO,NE,NV,OR,UT,WY
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The road to California carried over 250,000 gold-seekers & farmers
to the gold fields & rich farmlands of California during the 1840's
and 1850's - the greatest mass migration in American history. More than
1,000 miles of trail ruts and traces can still be seen in the vast
undeveloped west – reminders of the sacrifices, struggles, and triumphs
of early American travelers and settlers.
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Fort Larned National Historic Site - Larned, KS
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With nine beautifully restored buildings Fort Larned NHS gives you a
chance to experience military life on the Santa Fe Trail. Established
on the vast prairie in western Kansas, troops stationed at Fort Larned
protected mail coaches, freighters and other Trail traffic. As the site
of an Indian Agency, Fort Larned also was instrumental in maintaining
friendly relations with Plains Indians.
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Fort Scott National Historic Site - Fort Scott, KS
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Promises made and broken! A town attacked at dawn! Thousands made
homeless by war! Soldiers fighting settlers! Each of these stories is a
link in the chain of events that encircled Fort Scott from 1842-73. All
of the site's structures, its parade ground, and its tallgrass prairie
bear witness to this era when the country was forged from a young
republic into a united transcontinental nation.
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Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail - Eleven States: , ID,IL,IA,KS,MO,MT,NE,ND,OR,SD,WA
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Between May 1804 and September 1806, 31 men, one woman, and a baby
traveled from the plains of the Midwest to the shores of the Pacific
Ocean. They called themselves the Corps of Discovery. In their search
for a water route to the Pacific Ocean, they opened a window onto the
west for the young United States.
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Nicodemus National Historic Site - Nicodemus, KS
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An all Black Town settled by former slaves fleeing the south in 1877
after the Reconstruction Period had ended following the Civil war is
located in the Northwest corner of Kansas. This living community is the
only remaining all Black Town west of the Mississippi River that was
settled in the 1800's on the western plains by former slaves. Five
historic buildings represent this community.
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Oregon National Historic Trail - Various States, ID,KS,MO,NE,OR,WY
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As the harbinger of America's westward expansion, the Oregon Trail was
the pathway to the Pacific for fur traders, gold seekers, missionaries
and others. Today, more than 2,000 miles of trail ruts and traces can
still be seen in the vast undeveloped western lands - reminders of the
sacrifices, struggles, and triumphs of early American travelers and
settlers.
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Pony Express
National Historic Trail - Various States, CA,CO,KS,MO,NE,NV,UT,WY
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The Pony Express NHT was used by young men on fast horses to carry the
nation's mail from Missouri to California in the unprecedented time of
only ten days. The relay system became the nation's most direct and
practical means of east-west communications before the telegraph, and
it played a vital role in aligning California with the Union in the
years just before the Civil War.
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Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve - Strong City, KS
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Where's the tall grass?
Tallgrass prairie once covered 140 million acres of North America.
Within a generation the vast majority was developed and plowed under.
Today less than 4% remains, mostly here in the Kansas Flint Hills. The
preserve protects a nationally significant remnant of the once vast
tallgrass prairie and its cultural resources. Here the tallgrass
prairie takes its last stand.
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