Kansas is rich in archaeological remains from the 19th century westward migration.
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 …
Photo of Vieux Cemetery where Louis Vieux Sr. is buried. Vieux owned a toll bridge over the Vermillion Creek a crossing on the Oregon Trail.
Four hundred and forty-nine years ago this summer, the Kansas prairies were visited for the first time by white men. These were a select group of Spanish adventurers from Mexico led by a thirty-year-old nobleman by the name of Francisco Read More …
At five Little River focus village sites in Rice and McPherson counties, Kansas, so-called council circles are probably the most notable features present. Each consists of a low central mound surrounded by a ditch or a series of depressions (borrow 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 …
Four black and white photos of the excavations at Hollenberg Pony Express Station from the Kansas Memory webpage.
The National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination form for the Hollenberg (Cottonwood River) Pony Express Station with details of its historical significance.
The Hollenberg Station on the Cottonwood River in Washington County, Kansas, served as a respite for travelers on the Oregon-California Trail as well as for riders of the Pony Express. While in operation, the Hollenberg Station represented one of the Read More …
This is the Kansaspedia webpage about the Hollenberg Pony Express Station and Gerat Hollenberg, who ran the station along the Oregon Trail. Kansaspedia can be found on the Kansas Historical Sociey website.