Six years before the American Civil War, in 1855, William Allison and Francis Boothe established a trading post along the imposing Arkansas River. This crossing came to be known as Walnut Creek Crossing, an important milestone on the Santa Fe Read More …
Heavy rains and subsequent bank erosion in 1973 exposed the skeletal remains of 10 men and boys on Walnut Creek in Barton County, Kansas. The site (14BT301) has not been fully reported, and this effort is a step in that Read More …
This article is a review of the archaeology of the late prehistoric to early historic Wichita bands in Kansas. Waldo Wedel (1935a, 1959), who conducted excavations in two of three known settlement clusters, classified the remains in the McKern taxonomic Read More …
The text gives the history of Fort Zarah, as a military fort built to protect wagon trains and settlers along the Santa Fe Trail in Barton County, Kansas. There have been several archaeological digs to investigate and determine its exact Read More …
This article contains additional historical documentation as more evidence for the existence of a trading house at the Walnut Creek Crossing. The evidence came from the Walnut Creek Allison and Booth Trading House dig site during field school excavations by Read More …
This article contain details of the summer 1972 Kansas Anthropological Association’s dig at the site of Old Fort Zarah, Barton County, KS. The area is also known as Walnut Creek a river crossing along the Santa Fe Trail. KAA also Read More …
The article gives detailed information on gun and ammunition parts that are artifacts from the excavations at Allison Ranch and the surrounding area. Allison Ranch was a trading post selling merchandise to emigrant’s along the Santa Fe Trail.