Fort Larned - Kansas
Fort Larned is the most complete and best preserved military post of the Indian Wars era on the Santa Fe Trail. The Fort consists of nine authentically restored and refurnished buildings including the barracks, commissary, officers quarters, blacksmith shop, quartermasters storehouse, and more.
For More information you can visit Fort Larned's official website
August 12, 2018
About six miles west of Larned, Kansas the Fort Larned National Historic Site preserves the 1859 military post of Fort Larned. On October 22, 1859 Captain George H. Stewart, commanding Company K of the First United States Cavalry, was sent out with his company to establish a mail escort station on the line of the Santa Fe Trail. On October 22nd he selected a site on the south bank of Pawnee Fork, eight miles from the mouth of the river and established a camp, which was first called the “Camp on Pawnee Fork.” The original structure was built of sod in the heart of Indian hunting grounds.
Today, the National Historic Site displays nine restored buildings, including officers’ quarters, barracks, a blacksmith shop, commissary and more and is one of the best examples of Indian Wars period forts. Many of the buildings include include period furnishings and the Visitor Center includes a museum, introductory slide show, library, rest rooms and a gift shop. A nature trail still provides views of wagon ruts left in the ground from the many pioneers who traveled the Santa Fe Trail.
Fort Larned Parade Ground
Throughout the summer months, various programs are available where historians in period clothing staff the buildings and provide demonstrations.
Fort Larned is located six miles west of Larned, Kansas on Highway 156.
Contact Information:
Fort Larned National Historic Site
1767 Kansas Highway 156
Larned, Kansas 67550-9321
620-285-6911 (Info from Legends of America Website)
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Day 50: Rush Center to Larned, KS (October 18, 2011)
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On day 50 of the cross country trip I got double valve stem failures using up all my spare inner tubes before riding 34 miles from Rush Center to Larned, KS. I stopped to see the historical sites of Fort Larned, an outpost on the Santa Fe Trail, and then visited the Santa Fe Trail Center museum.
The time lapse video was made using a GoPro Hero mounted on the front of my bicycle taking a still photo once every 5 seconds.
Fort Larned National Historic Site
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Ozthunder USA 2013. Tornadoes, Larned, Kansas, 18th May 2013
Two nice tornadoes. I was surprised to get these as I thought cold air from a cell further south had undercut the area, ironically however it may have been this undercutting that helped the last tornado, but this would also be the end of the storm.
Water Tower-City of Larned, Ks
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Fort Larned National Historic Site
Wind, The Santa Fe Trail & Life on the Plains
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Larned High School Courtyard
Larned High School's courtyard. Larned, KS
Artillery Demonstration
Mountain howitzer firing demonstration at Fort Larned National Historic Site. Fort Larned was an important frontier fort on the Santa Fe Trail between 1859 and 1878. Today, it is one of the best-preserved and best-restored forts of its type anywhere in the United States, and is one of five National Park Service sites in Kansas. Located 6 miles west of Larned, Kansas. See nps.gov/fols
The Santa Fe Trail (Covered Wagons and Westward Expansion Part 2)
- The Santa Fe Trail is Part 2 of Covered Wagons and Westward Expansion - an American Pioneering History title.
Study the American Pioneering Experience and Covered Wagons and Westward Expansion using our online history videos to learn about the development of the overland trails and what it was like to travel through the untamed American West. Learn why the Great Plains presented a barrier to westward expansion and learn about the experiences of a covered wagon pioneer. Discover why many Americans set out on westward trails during the early nineteenth century.
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Forts of the Frontier West--Preview
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The opening of the West is the most colorful and romanticized period in American history, and the forts of the Western frontier were silent witnesses to this history. From the Northern Plains to the Southwest, from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, on the Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail, they were forerunners of settlement, bastions of refuge, centers of trade, and outposts of diplomatic and martial relations with indigenous peoples and foreign colonial powers.
Fort Smith, Fort Riley, Fort Stephen Kearny, Fort Laramie, Fort Bridger, Sutter's Fort, Fort Phil Kearny, Fort Fetterman, Fort Abraham Lincoln, Fort Union Trading Post, Fort Buford, Fort Larned, Fort Hays, Bent's Fort, Fort Garland, Fort Union, Fort Davis, Fort Craig, Fort Selden, Fort Bowie, Fort Apache
FORTS OF THE FRONTIER WEST tells the stories of these lonely and legendary posts, the people who lived there, and the events that shaped the history of the American West.
The Blue Mound - A Kansas Historical Documentary
The Blue Mound is a lonely, 1,054ft hill rising up from the prairie southeast of Lawrence, Kansas. It has been the center of history in northeast Kansas since the Kansa Tribes roamed the area, and it continued its importance through the westward expansion era of the Oregon and California trails, the Bleeding Kansas and Civil War era, and into modern times as a ski hill.
This documentary dives into the hill's rich history, and the historic events that have taken place in the shadow of its slopes, from explorers like John C. Fremont and Kit Carson, to Quantrill's Raid, to the construction of the University of Kansas.
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Kansas /ˈkænzəs/ KAN-zəs is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansa Native American tribe which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean people of the wind or people of the south wind, although this was probably not the term's original meaning. Residents of Kansas are called Kansans. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the Eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the Western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. Kansas was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue.
When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists eventually prevailed and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland. Today, Kansas is one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, sorghum, and sunflowers. Kansas is the 15th most extensive and the 34th most populous of the 50 United States.
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Forts of the Frontier West--Release Announcement
PREVIEW--SAMPLE CHAPTER--PRICING & ORDERS
The opening of the West is the most colorful and romanticized period in American history, and the forts of the Western frontier were silent witnesses to this history. From the Northern Plains to the Southwest, from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, on the Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail, they were forerunners of settlement, bastions of refuge, centers of trade, and outposts of diplomatic and martial relations with indigenous peoples and foreign colonial powers.
Fort Smith, Fort Riley, Fort Stephen Kearny, Fort Laramie, Fort Bridger, Sutter's Fort, Fort Phil Kearny, Fort Fetterman, Fort Abraham Lincoln, Fort Union Trading Post, Fort Buford, Fort Larned, Fort Hays, Bent's Fort, Fort Garland, Fort Union, Fort Davis, Fort Craig, Fort Selden, Fort Bowie, Fort Apache
FORTS OF THE FRONTIER WEST tells the stories of these lonely and legendary posts, the people who lived there, and the events that that shaped the history of the American West.
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Santa Fe National Historic Trail | Wikipedia audio article
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Santa Fe National Historic Trail
00:01:38 1 History
00:03:14 1.1 North–South trade
00:04:27 1.2 Importance of Santa Fe
00:05:53 1.3 Conflict between Texas and Mexico
00:09:44 2 Mother of the railroad
00:11:33 3 Route
00:14:29 4 Challenges
00:15:59 5 Historic preservation
00:16:46 6 Notable features
00:18:22 7 See also
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The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Independence, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell, it served as a vital commercial highway until the introduction of the railroad to Santa Fe in 1880. Santa Fe was near the end of the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, which carried trade from Mexico City.
The route skirted the northern edge and crossed the north-western corner of Comancheria, the territory of the Comanches, who demanded compensation for granting passage to the trail, and represented another market for American traders. Comanche raiding farther south in Mexico isolated New Mexico, making it more dependent on the American trade, and provided the Comanches with a steady supply of horses for sale. By the 1840s, trail traffic along the Arkansas Valley was so heavy that bison herds could not reach important seasonal grazing land, contributing to their collapse, which in turn hastened the decline of Comanche power in the region.The American army used the trail route in 1846 for the invasion of New Mexico during the Mexican–American War.After the U.S. acquisition of the Southwest ending the war, the trail helped open the region to U.S. economic development and settlement, playing a vital role in the expansion of the U.S. into the lands it had acquired. The road route is commemorated today by the National Park Service as the Santa Fe National Historic Trail. A highway route that roughly follows the trail's path through the entire length of Kansas, the southeast corner of Colorado and northern New Mexico has been designated as the Santa Fe Trail National Scenic Byway.
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