High Plains Museum
The High Plains Museum, just off Interstate 70, in Goodland, Kansas opened in 1960 and features a collection of over 8,000 objects representative of Goodland and Sherman County history.
For more videos of the local area
- Fort Hays Historic Site
- Fort Wallace Museum
- Fort Wallace Museum Outside
- Combat Air Museum
- Museum of Kansas National Guard
- First Infantry Division Museum
- Eisenhower Museum
- Eisenhower Childhood Home
For more of our travel videos, please go to
Please email us at FreeTravelWithUs@gmail.com with any helpful suggestions on how we can do a better job documenting our travels and getting the word out about our website. Thanks!
If you are enjoying the videos, please help us continue by letting your friends know about them and subscribe to our channel so we can meet the new “1,000” subscriber requirements.
Around Kansas - Bison Exhibit at Goodland's High Plains Museum - January 25, 2017
(Frank) Back again. Okay, now this next story, is it tatanka, bison or buffalo? (Deb) Okay, I think, well, if you were here before we got here, white Europeans, I guess it would be tatanka, or whatever the other tribes might have called it. I don’t know what the Cheyenne word was. I think tatanka was Sioux, if I’m saying that correctly. (Frank) Yes. (Deb) We had a lot of Cheyenne and other tribes here in what became Kansas, so I’m not sure what their word for the bison was. But, of course, Europeans called it buffalo which is not correct, that is wrong. But, when I came to Kansas, when I moved to Kansas, Noelle was just a baby, and we went out to the Kansas State Historical Society and she is in a stroller and she picks up a bison. She picks up a little stuffed bison, she carries it around, I thought she would get tired, well she didn’t. So she kept that, and that became like her teddy bear, like most kids sleep with a teddy bear she slept- (Frank) [Laughs] (Deb) -and she couldn’t say buffalo, so she called it Baba. (Frank) Baba. (Deb) So, her little buffalo, Baba. So, about that time, Ted Turner was doing all the stuff with the bison up in Montana, and I wrote him a letter and sent him a picture of my beautiful child with her little buffalo and he was raising- (Deb) bison and giving, he had a huge herd. I said, I applaud what you're doing, yada, yada. He sent me back the most beautiful letter, blue embossed stationery with this buffalo--bison embossed on the stationery and all these and I said, Well, being a Southern boy, I thought you'd appreciate that Noelle calls her buffalo, Baba. It was a really nice thing, but the bison is our state mammal, it is also is our national mammal, and there is a great exhibit, just started on Monday out in Goodland that you're going to have to go see. They've got some great events around it, so it's your opportunity to learn an awful lot about the bison? Buffalo? (Frank) Bison. (Deb) You say bison, I say buffalo. (Frank) Shuffle off to Buffalo? (Deb) The traveling exhibit Bison opened January 23 and will run until Mid-March at Goodland's High Plains Museum. The exhibit is on loan from the National Buffalo Museum and is made possible through the support of the Kauffman Museum, National Bison Foundation, and Klemm Buffalo Ranch. The exhibit will explore the past, present and future of the state and national mammal, said museum director Sami Philbrick, creating an interactive environment that combines history, artifact, and hands-on activities to bring to life the story of this great North American mammal. As a teaching aide, a live bison will be visiting the museum this Saturday from 9-5, Mountain Time. In addition to the exhibit, on Saturday, February 18, the High Plains Museum with the Klemm Buffalo Ranch will host the National Bison Association workshop Bison Advantage. The program begins at 8 am Mountain Time at the Prairie Lodge, located on the Klemm Ranch, northeast of Goodland on Hwy 18. Lunch will be served followed by tours of the Bison Ranch. That evening, a panel discussion will be held at the museum, Bison and Modern Day Agriculture. On Saturday March 11 the museum will host the program Buffalo on the High Plains: Sharing Local Buffalo History where they invite the public to come with their own bison stories and artifacts to share for the day. Ken has been raising bison since 1987 and hopes the exhibit and activities will help folks gain a better appreciation for the natural world around them and understand that there is a brand new, exciting industry rising from the prairie grasses right now - and they can be part of it! The American Bison is an icon worldwide and we live right smack in the middle of their native range, Ken said. The very soil we stand on was made through the action of billions of hoof marks. Our history is intertwined with theirs. Their brush with extinction and mankind's reversal of behavior showcases both the weaknesses and the beauty of mankind. We're pleased to help bring this amazing story to Goodland.
(Frank) That's it we're done again. I'm Frank. (Deb) I'm Deb. Happy Kansas Day, everybody. (Frank) We'll see you somewhere around Kansas.
Museum of the Great Plains
Located in Lawton, the Museum of the Great Plains features special collections and exhibits that spotlight the cultural and natural history of the Great Plains of North America. Some of the museum's permanent exhibits include the Domebo Dig Site, an authentic recreation of a 1960s archeological excavation that revealed human activity from 11,000 years ago. Come explore one of the many outdoor exhibits at the museum!
High Plains Modernist
An appropriately scored trailer for the landscape exhibition The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890--1950, at LACMA through June 3, 2007. The show employs a wealth of paintings and photography to demonstrate that the western United States played an often unrecognized role in the development of modernism.
Museum Kansas National Guard
The Museum of the Kansas National Guard, located in Topeka, Kansas, is dedicated to preserving the heritage of the Kansas National Guard and honoring the memories of the soldiers and airmen who, for over 145 years, have served Kansas and the United States whenever the call was made. The Museum has over 125 inside displays and 35 outside equipment displays documenting the history of the organization from virtually every conflict from the Civil War to the more recent peacekeeping actions in Bosnia.
This is Part Two of a two-part series on museums in the Topeka, Kansas area.
Part One, The Combat Air Museum, can be seen at:
For more videos of the local area
- Fort Hays Historic Site
- Fort Wallace Museum
- Fort Wallace Museum Outside
- High Plains Museum
- First Infantry Division Museum
- Eisenhower Museum
- Eisenhower Childhood Home
For more of our travel videos, please go to
Please email us at FreeTravelWithUs@gmail.com with any helpful suggestions on how we can do a better job documenting our travels and getting the word out about our website. Thanks!
If you are enjoying the videos, please help us continue by letting your friends know about them and subscribe to our channel so we can meet the new “1,000” subscriber requirements.
Around Kansas - Elk in Kansas - Oct 21, 2015
(Deb) So,welcome back folks, and I love viewing wildlife as you go around Kansas. And in far western Kansas, just outside of Atwood, Jeff and Alice Hill used to live out there and I think they've moved south to be with their grandkids now. But on their ranch which borders on Colorado, Jeff told me was the only natural elk herd in Kansas. So, you know the elk used to be everywhere. You know when Lewis and Clark came through, heck everything, you couldn't walk without bumping into a bear or an elk or bison or something. And of course the thousands of settlers that came through kind of took care of that, but there are, when I was researching this story, a lot of elk in Kansas now. (Frank) Well, there's a lot of conservation going on. (Deb) Right. (Frank) Because the buffalo herds have come back. Of course deer are, we need to import some wolves or something. Sorry hunters. (Deb) Bambi is the most dangerous animal, is it like 10,000 car accidents a year or something? Just in Kansas? (Frank) You have a one in five chance of hitting deer, a one in five chance. (Deb) That's crazy. I mean it's crazy. (Frank) So when you're going down the two lane road especially if you have trees on either side that's when you start watching the tree line, cause they come out and they run from one tree line to the others. Anyway, be very careful. (Deb) Well, so far the elk/car accidents haven't escalated to that. (Frank) There aren't many trees out there. (Deb) There aren't many trees. That's right. No place for them to hide. (Frank) That's why elk are out there. (Deb) And they're so doggone big. You know, they're almost twice as big maybe as the deer would be. Something like that. Yea, they're pretty big animals. They're pretty big animals. I was up at Will Cokeley's farm up in Delia, he raises elk. And it was amazing. You know Will is a football player and a big macho guy and he has hunting up on his place. And it's funny because the elk that he breeds recognize him as the alpha male. It's hilarious. And so he would go up and raise his arms and they would, they'd back down, the bull elks. And like man, this was a whole nother circle of wild life. I mean it was really interesting. (Frank) Yea, see how interesting Kansas is? (Deb) There's just no end to it. No end to the great stories. (Frank) I mean we have grey squirrels in the eastern part of the state, red squirrels here and then we have deer and they have elk out there and it's just all kinds of stuff. (Deb) Black squirrels in Marysville. (Frank) Yea, yea. (Deb) Yea, go back and archive that story. And you know if there's stories, if you've got something unusual that you want to share with us, or make us aware of, let us know. You can find us on Facebook. You can find our emails there. Share our Facebook stories. You know we've got a You Tube channel. Did you know that? (Frank) Yes. (Deb) We've got a You Tube channel. So, you can go to You Tube, I'm not sure exactly how it works, but you can go to You Tube and find our stories and feel free to share them. That's what it's all about. We want to get those great things out there. Send them to your friends. We've got friends, I might have talked about this one day, watching in Europe and different places. And when I was in New Mexico a couple of weeks ago, visiting with a lot of friends and they're taking about, how can I watch our show? Online. Is this a great country or what? (Frank) Yea. (Deb) Stay tuned. When the Plains Tribes ruled the Prairies, bison were not the only big game populating the grasslands. Elk were common in pre-settlement Kansas, but were extirpated at the turn of the century, meaning they were not extinct but no longer native to the area. However, a small herd was maintained at the Maxwell Wildlife Area near McPherson. The 2,200-acre enclosure is operated as a refuge and also features bison. In 1981, elk from Maxwell were released at the Cimarron National Grassland, and that herd was free ranging. To keep that herd from growing too big and causing crop damage, a limited resident-only season was opened in 1987. Later in the 1980s, elk were captured at Maxwell and released on the Ft. Riley Military Reservation. That herd is also free ranging, and a season was established for the fort in 1990. Today, elk are primarily hunted on and around Ft. Riley, but individual elk or small herds may be found at other locations around the state, and hunting is permitted everywhere except a portion of Morton County, see Elk Management Unit maps. About 900 applications are received for the 20 or so permits allotted each year, and they are divided among military personnel and Kansas residents. There are more than 50 breeders in the state, many of whom offer some kind of hunting on their property.
Traveling Kansas - Trego County (2015)
Enjoy the attractions, events and communities of Kansas! Traveling Kansas takes you to Trego County (WaKeeney) featuring Christmas City of the Hi-Plains, Cedar Bluff, Butterfield Trail & History, Trego County Museum.
Produced by Smoky Hills Public Television
More Information at
If you would like to Donate to Smoky Hills Public Television then please click on the link below:
Kansas Buffalo Association
(Conrad) Good morning and welcome to another episode of Farm Factor on AGam in Kansas. My name is Conrad Kabus. At the Kansas State Fair this year, we caught up with several ag producers and vendors. The Kansas Buffalo Association is an organization looking for a program dedicated to reintroducing the buffalo to Kansas.
High Plains Adventures
Couple of hunts over 2014 with High Plains Adventures.
Copyright details:
Woodkid-Run Boy Run, sound recording administered by:
[Merlin] PIAS
UMG
Tony Anderson-The Prophecy - Music Bed, sound recording administered by: Click here to play matched content
AdRev for a 3rd Party
The xx-Intro, sound recording administered by: Click here to play matched content
[Merlin] Beggars
I-70 Ready-Made Adventure
The most exciting 424 miles across Kansas.
Kansas' I-70 truly is Main Street America. Its lush woodlands, rolling Flint Hills, unique Post Rock country, scenic Great Plains and breathtaking sunrises and sunsets captivate visitors.
Around Kansas - Deb and Frank's Chat - June 7, 2017
(Frank Chaffin) And in a few hours the sun will be up on a brand new Wednesday. I'm Frank. (Deb) I'm Deb. (Frank) And this Around Kansas. Good morning. (Deb) Good morning. You know where I live out in the western part of the state; it takes another hour or two for the sun - (Frank) [Laughs]. (Deb) - for the sun to get there. It takes a while for it to roll on out I-70 and all - [Frank) Well, it has the climb the hill. (Deb) Well, it a pretty steady - (Frank) From 800 feet to 3700 feet. (Deb) It's a pretty steady incline going out there. We're getting ready out there for our big event at Fort Wallace just a month from now. Oh my God, I can't believe it's just a month. We have so much to do, but we're having the Great Fort Wallace and Western Kansas Exposition. We're having a special event on July third in Goodland, just outside of Goodland at the museum and then at the Kidder Massacre Site. Dr. Jake is recreating the Kidder ride from 1867. I'll accept the massacre at the end; they’re not going to die again. Then we’re going to have a program out at the massacre site. We'll have historians out there, Doug Whitson and other folks talking about what happened out there. Our friend Cally Krallman and Diane Gillenwater did a beautiful song about that. Then on the sixth, we have a bus tour from Oakley to Scott City, which is going to be phenomenal. We're going to visit some incredible sites along the way. There's a fee for that. But then on the seventh, we have a symposium. Nerd day, I call it at the Expo. That will be at the Fort Wallace Museum. Then on Saturday morning, July eight, we will have the unveiling of the statue of Scout William Comstock by our friend Jerry Thomas out in front of the museum. We will have the grand opening of the new addition to the museum which was designed by Valerie Smith and what an incredible, talented, you can't believe how cool this is. We will an encampment all day long and a Michael Martin Murphy concert that night. Then on Sunday, we will end with a horse-drawn procession out to the Fort Wallace cemetery and services there. It's going to be huge, so visit the website for Fort Wallace Museum. Find me on Facebook. Find our Facebook page. You better get some room reservations, maybe in Denver by now because, man, we are filling them up fast out there. (Frank) Either that or a camper or a tent. (Deb) A camper or a tent. That's right. That space is at a premium so -- but hook up space may be at a premium but space, by golly, we got space out there so we will find a place to put you. If you to come we will find a place. That's right. (Frank) [Laughs] Somewhere on the high plains. (Deb) You may be on a field somewhere but we got space. That’s the one thing we got a lot of. It's going to be an awesome time. (Frank) Another thing to look forward to here in the great state of Kansas. (Deb) Another thing to look forward to. That's right. There's so much going on. People that complain, my granny used to say, The only people that are bored are boring people.” I'm like the more I look around that’s true Frank. People that can't find something to do are generally boring people. If you don't want to waste time with them, move to the next table. You don't want to be talking to those people. If they can't find something fun to do or interesting or entertaining or educational you ain't got time for them. You don't need those people in your life. (Frank) We'll be back.
Kansas, 1861
Provided to YouTube by CDBaby
Kansas, 1861 · Kristie Stremel
Kansas, 1861
℗ 2015 Kristie Stremel
Released on: 2015-11-03
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Victoria, Kansas - Cathedral of the Plains
Quick look at the Cathedral of the Plains in Victoria, KS. This is just to the east of Fort Hays, so if you are out that way (maybe to see the Sternberg Museum in Fort Hays), make sure to see it for yourself.
Kansas Bison
Bison on the move in the Flint Hills at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Strong City, KS, April 2015.
Kansas Museum of Military History Open House
CamMan707's shared video file.
The haunting @ Kidder Massacre Site read description
A routine drone flight turns into a haunting!
Upon my intitial arrival my Sirius satellite radio started malfunctioning. Audio cut out and unit displayed number 13 on the display. Then after that got drone out to get it calibrated and got message from drone ‘compass malfunction, strong magnetic fields ‘ this should be impossible out there no power lines, cell towers or radio stations. About halfway through the video you will see horizontal lines in the video each time this happened drone went crazy and couldn’t control it.
Around Kansas - Sunflowers September 19, 2018
Deb: Sunflowers line our roadsides and fields dot the pastures dress up the fence lines. The sunflower state is blooming. According to the Kansas state historical society, long before statehood, the sunflower began to develop a connection with
Kansas. Traders on the Santa Fe trail commented on the flowers present. Stephen Long's expedition through Kansas in 1820 documented birds feeding on the flowers seeds, early settlers burned the stocks her fuel and fed the seeds to their poultry.
Over Nebraska-Kansas Line
2010RoadTripUSA. Part 9. Over Nebraska-Kansas Line. August 23, 2010.
Music by Debich.
US-36 passes through all 13 counties in Kansas which border Nebraska. The highway enters the Sunflower State from Colorado in Cheyenne County and shares a seven-mile (11 km) concurrency through the town of St. Francis with K-27, the first north--south route intersected in Kansas. K-27 splits east of St. Francis and heads south toward Goodland, and US-36 then continues through Bird City and McDonald before intersecting K-25 in Atwood, the seat of Rawlins County.
US-36 continues east through Decatur County, intersecting with US-83 in Oberlin before beginning a concurrency with K-383 in Norton County, a concurrency which runs for 12 miles (19 km) through the city of Norton, where it crossesUS-283. K-383 splits in eastern Norton County and bends northeast toward Almena and the Nebraska state line, while US-36 enters Phillips County, picking up a brief concurrency with US-183 in Phillipsburg.
The Republican River is formed by the confluence of the North Fork Republican River and South Fork Republican River immediately southeast of Benkelman, Nebraska in Dundy County. Both forks originate in the High Plains of northeastern Colorado. From the confluence, the river flows generally eastward along the southern border of Nebraska, passing through Swanson Reservoir and Harlan County Reservoir before curving southward into the Smoky Hills region of Kansas. The Republican River joins the Smoky Hill River at Junction City, Kansas to form the Kansas River.
Some cities along the river are McCook, Nebraska, Clay Center, Kansas, Concordia, Kansas and Junction City, Kansas. Near Concordia is the Republican River Pegram Truss, a bridge that goes over the Republican River that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The river was named after a branch of Pawnee Indians known as the Republicans Allocation of the water from the Republican River is governed through an agreement called the Republican River Compact, involving the states of Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado. (wikipedia)
Kansas Buffalo on the Prairie
A hike in Kansas
Bison and BBQ - A Trip To Kansas
Join Stacey and Brian as they sample some BBQ, see some sights and then step out onto the Great American Plains!