| Folder Title | Number | Item | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Califorina Trails | 001 | “The First Emigrant Train to California” by John Bidwell American History Illustrated Apr 1985 | |
| 002 | Map of the Oregon-California and Santa Fe Trails in Johnson County | ||
| 003 | Pamphlet -Landmarks and Events Along the Historice Mormon Trail | ||
| Lewis and Clark Trail | 001 | Lewis and Clark Trail published by Nation Park Service published by GPO 2002 | |
| 002 | Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail published by Nation Park Service Jun 1991 | ||
| 003 | Articles “’Lewis & Clark’ filmmakers blaze the trail themselves to illustrate landmark tale” by Aaron Barnhart and “Companion book crosses the barriers of time rediscovers unspoiled America by George Gurley Kansas Star Nov 2, 1997 | ||
| 004 | Booklet “A Guide to visiting the Lands of Many Nations & to the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial” published by The National Council of the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial | ||
| See also Lewis and Clark folder in Individuals drawer | |||
| Oregon Trail - Articles | 001 | “Busy Year ahead on the Oregon Trail” from Kansas 1993 Calendar of Events | |
| 002 | “The Oregon Trail” by Jonathan Nicholas The Kansas City Star Mar 7, 1993 | ||
| 003 | “Travel – Westward anniversaries – Historic Wagon trail and Landrush commemorated” by Shifra Stein The Squire Jul 29, 1993 | ||
| 004 | Articles “Serenata Farms offers Oregon Trail expeditions”, “Alcove Spring and important campsite on Trail”, “Grinter House preserves legacy of first settler”, “Rediscovering the Oregon Trail in Kansas”, and “End of the trail” from The Northeast Kansas Pioneer Champion Spring 1995 | ||
| 005 | Articles “Following the Oregon Trail”, “First night – Barely a hint of history surrounds campground (Lone Elm)”, “High Water – Kaw River proved to be muddy, mighty obstacle”, “Passing Graves – Unmarked burial sites reveal trek’s gloomy toll”, “Open Spring – Trail enthusiasts bring piece of history to public – Blue Rapids, KS”, Legend Begins – Persistence pays off for Nebraska woman – Fairbury, NE”, “Braided River – Shrinking waterway once posed a threat – Kearney, NE”, Indian Captive – Violence erupts on trail as pioneers surge west (Plum Creek Massacre) – Lexington, NE”, “West to Zion – Modern-day station remains a popular stop – Paxton, NE”, “Bitters Trail – Emigrants frequently imbibed ‘medications’ – Roscoe, NE”, “Path Finder – Paul Henderson put Oregon Trail on map – Bridgeport, NE”, “Rock Castles – Trail’s travails rub away camaraderie and civility – Ogallala, NE”, “Buffalo Range – Emigrants rested at for before ascending peaks – Fort Laramie, WY”, Extended Picnic – Whimsically pursuing elephants, jackalopes – Douglas, WY”, “Fremont Faux Pas – Visitors left their mark on awe-inspiring rock – Independence Rock, WY”, “Handcart Disaster – Respite on road turned into a | ||
| ‘Trail of Blood’ – Muddy Gap, WY”, “Oregon Trail map and Trail Facts”, “Westward Waters – Pioneers cross divide, see ‘other side of world’ – South Pass City, WY”, “Lonely Grave – Desert shortcut offered dust, desolation, death – La Barge, WY”, “Peg-:Leg’s Place – Idaho greeted pioneers with a hilly challenge – Dingle, ID”, “Eden’s Ruin – Wagon trains damaged way of life for Indians – Fort Hall, ID”, Bad Brit Advice – Decision of emigrants at for affected the course of history – Fort Hall, ID”, Abandoned China – Reaching beastly river challenged the pioneers – Kimberly, ID”, “White Renegades – Attack leads survivors to an act of desperation – Murphy, ID”, Mission Pine – Patience deteriorates as terrain grows rugged – Baker City, OR”, “Cayuse Uprising – The Whitmans were teachers, traders, targets – Walla Walla, WA”, “Leaving Slavery – No welcome for blacks at the end of the trail – Biggs Junction, OR”, “Wagons Abandoned – Foaming, boiling like an ‘enormous cauldron’ – The Dalles, OR”, “Pioneer Women – Barlow Road provided mix of hope and terror – Barlow Road, OR”, “New Trail Center – Tourism is big | |||
| business along emigrant route – Baker City, OR”, “Trail’s End – Lore abounds on trek to the ‘Promised Land’ Oregon City, OR”, “Saving the trace – Ezra Meeker’s efforts to protect history go on”, “Fiddle Footed – Stories told on paper and carved on the trail – Blue Rapids, KS”, and “Going West? – Follow interstate highways to keep track of the trail” from The Kansas City Star | |||
| 006 | “Oregon Trail Center” published by KC Publications | ||
| 007 | “Oregon Trail Center – Voyage of Discovery” published by KC Publications | ||
| 008 | Articles “Making history again on the Oregon Trail” by Lora J. Finnegan and “Meet Seven Oregon Trail Pioneer Families” Sunset Jun 1993 | ||
| 009 | Articles “Celebrating the Sesquicentennial of the Oregon Trail”, “Ferries Instead of Bridges”, “Who Were the Emigrants?”, and “livestock on the Oregon Trail” Kansas Too! Vol 10 No 1 Jan 1993 | ||
| 010 | “The Independence Road – Kansas Celebrates the 150th Anniversary of the Oregon Trail’ by Barbara Burgess | ||
| 011 | Pamphlet “Chimney Rock – Seeing the Elephant” located on the Oregon Trail | ||
| Oregon Trail - Books/CD's | 001 | “Fantastic Facts about the Oregon Trail” by Michael J. Trinklein | |
| 002 | “Traces of the Oregon Trail” by Kim Carlson Sasquatch Books | ||
| 003 | “An 1839 Wagon Train Journal Travels in the Great Western Prairies the Anahuac and Rocky Mountains and in the Oregon Territory” by Thomas J. Farnham | ||
| 004 | “Teacher’s Guide for The Trail to Oregon” by Betty Comfort | ||
| 005 | Emigrant Names 2. A census of Oregon and California Trails emigrants on a CD prepared by Oregon-California Trails Association. Located in CD Tower | ||
| 006 | Four set audiotape series “The Oregon Trail”. Located in bottom drawer of South two drawer file cabinet | ||
| Oregon Trail - Maps | 001 | “Oregon Trail” Official Map and Guide Nation Park Service | |
| 002 | “My trip on the Oregon Trail” published by Shawnee Indian Mission | ||
| 003 | “Following the Oregon Trail in Shawnee County, Kansas” published by Kansas State Historical Society | ||
| 004 | “Old Oregon Trail” | ||
| 005 | Oregon Trail Crossings | ||
| Oregon Trail - Pamphlets | 001 | “Oregon Trail 150th Anniversary” produced by Independence Tourism Department | |
| 002 | “Following the Oregon Trail in Shawnee County, Kansas” compliments of Kansas State Historical Society | ||
| 003 | “Pony Express Short-lived” Kansas Too! Vol 10 No 1 Jan 1993 | ||
| Overland Trail | 001 | Map of the Overland Trail 1862-1868 | |
| 002 | Pamphlet “Overland – The California Emigrant Trail of 1841-1870” text and photographs by Greg MacGregor | ||
| Pony Express Trail | 001 | Map of the Pony Express Trail beginning Apr 3, 1860 from St Joseph Mo and Sacramento Ca with list of Pony Express Riders | |
| 002 | Articles “The Pony Express … St. Joseph to California in 10 days!” and “Sightseeing along the Pony Express” The Northeast Kansas Pioneer Champion Vol 1 Issue 3 Fall 1994 | ||
| Santa Fe Trail - Articles | 001 | “The Santa Fe Trail” condensed from the Yale Review by Donald Culross Peattie The Readers Digest Jul 1946 | |
| 002 | Article about Santa Fe Trail Pavilion “Spirited struggle kept valuable land out of bulldozer’s maw” by Robert P. Sigman Kansas City Star Sep 18, 1992 | ||
| 003 | “Silent ruts tell story of migration – Gouges in prairie along Santa Fe Trail preserved, stabilized” by Mike Berry The Kansas City Star Mar 7, 1993 | ||
| 004 | “Trail trekking without the travel” Oregon, Santa Fe journeys are traced in Johnson County by Jim Sullinger Kansas City Star Jul 3, 1993 | ||
| 005 | “Debate over trail ruts is continuing” Kansas City Kansas Oct 6, 1993 with attached flyer “Santa Fe Trail Tracks” | ||
| 006 | Articles from The Northeast Kansas Pioneer Champion Vol I Issue 2 Jun-Aug 1994 “The Santa Fe Trail: ‘From Civilization to Sundown’”, “Rediscovering the Ruts of the Santa Fe Trail”, and “Santa Fe Trail dry rout went south through Franklin County” | ||
| 007 | Special Santa Fe Trail issue of Kansas Too! Vol 13 No. 1 Jan 1996 with related articles “ Kansas’ First Highway”, “Traffic on the Trail”, “Trail Timeline”, “Council Grove the Rendezvous Point”, “Olathe’s Mahaffie Farm”, “Kansas Forts along the Trail”, “Fort Larned – Protector of the Plains”, and “Point of Rocks Santa Fe Trail Landmark” | ||
| 008 | Articles from The Northeast Kansas Pioneer Champion Vol III Issue 1 Spring 1996 “The Santa Fe Trail: ‘From Civilization to Sundown’”, “Santa Fe Trail Still Carved into Kansas’ Landscape”, and “Trail Takes Many Paths Through KC” | ||
| 009 | “The Santa Fe Trail 1821-1996” Tour Kansas Guide Summer 1996 | ||
| 010 | “Dinner on the Santa Fe Trail” by Lort Linenberger The Wichita Eagle Jun 12, 1996 | ||
| 011 | “Santa Fe Trail – Voyage of Discovery” The Story Behind the Scenery | ||
| 012 | “Adventures with the Santa Fe Trail” an activity book for kids and teachers by Dave Webb | ||
| 013 | “Along Old Trails to See Historic Beauty in Missouri – Drive to Arrow Rock can be made by way of Ft Osage, following rout of Santa Fe Trail, where original ruts are still found” by Margaret Olwine | ||
| 014 | Article “Pawnee Rock” noted as the most famous landmark along the Santa Fe Trail in Kansas form The Pawnee Rock Herald | ||
| Santa Fe Trail - Books | 001 | “Ninetieth Anniversary Survey of the Santa Fe Trail DAR Markers in Kansas” Kansas Society Daughters of the American Revolution | |
| 002 | “Faces along the Santa Fe Trail” by Jane Kurtz | ||
| 003 | “On the Santa Fe Trail in 1857” by W. B. Napton | ||
| 004 | “Santa Fe Trail Trivia” compiled by Leo E. Oliva and Bonita M. Oliva | ||
| 005 | “Trail Dust – A quick picture history of the Santa Fe Trail” by Gene and Mary Martin | ||
| Santa Fe Trail - Maps | 001 | “Santa Fe Trail” Official Map and Guide Nation Park Service | |
| 002 | “Santa Fe Trail” Missouri Division of Tourism | ||
| 003 | Trail points in western Missouri and eastern Kansas published in the Kansas City Star | ||
| 004 | Independence and Westport on the Santa Fe Trail, 1840 | ||
| 005 | Guide to seventeen Santa Fe Trial monuments in Jackson County, MO and Johnson and Douglas County, KS | ||
| 006 | Color photograph of “The End of the Santa Fe Trail” monument in Santa Fe, NM | ||
| 007 | The Santa Fe Trail in Kansas City | ||
| Santa Fe Trail - Pamphlets | 001 | Pamphlet “The Santa Fe Trail” | |
| 002 | Pamphlet “The Old Santa Fe Trail through Rice County, Kansas” | ||
| 003 | Pamphlet “Follow the Santa Fe Trail through Rice County, Kansas” | ||
| 004 | Pamphlet “The Santa Fe Trail local points of Interest Garden City Finney county Kansas” | ||
| 005 | “Kansas Tour on the Santa Fe Trail” compliments of the Lenexa Convention and Visitors Bureau | ||
| 006 | “Santa Fe Trail” | ||
| 007 | “Santa Fe Trail – 175 Years – Kansas” Forty-two days along the Trail Kansas Program Series Jun 3 – Jul 14, 1996 | ||
| 008 | “Tastes and Tales of the Trail” Jun 5, 1996 Shawnee Mission State Historic Site | ||
| 009 | “The Great Campground: Lone Elm” Jun 6, 1996 | ||
| 010 | Copy of flyer for the movie Santa Fe Trail | ||
| 011 | Color photograph of “End of the Santa Fe Trail 1822-1879” marker located in Santa Fe, NM | ||
| 012 | List of Seventeen Santa Fe Trail Mouments located in Jackson County, MO and Johnson and Douglas County, KS | ||
| Smoky Trail | 001 | “Smoky Hill Trail…bloodiest in the west” The Northeast Kansas Pioneer Champion Fall 1995 | |
| Trail Logistics | 001 | “A Prairie Schooner’s varied cargo” | |
| 002 | Diagram describing the main parts of a prairie schooner | ||
| 003 | “Blueprint of a Wagon” published by The Kansas City Star | ||
| 004 | Techniques for crossing a river | ||
| 005 | Diagram describing emigrants wagons to Oregon | ||
| 006 | Copy of flyer “The Wagon & Team and Supplies Needed” | ||
| 007 | Postcard showing Conestoga Wagon and Eagle Rock at Scotts Bluff National Monument | ||
| 008 | “Wagons, Mules, and Men – How the Frontier moved west” text and pictures by Nick Eggenhofer | ||
| 009 | “Ferries Instead of Bridges” Kansas Too! Vol 10 No 1 Jan 1993 | ||
| 010 | “Space Limited in a Covered Wagon” Kansas Too! Vol 10 No 1 Jan 1993 | ||
| 011 | “Inventory of Essential Outfit” from Women and Men on the Overland Trail by John Mack Faragher 1979 | ||
| 012 | Trail Terminology | ||
| 013 | Conestoga Wagon -Masterpiece of the Blacksmith -Arthur L Reist | ||
| Trails – Miscellanous | 001 | “Capt L. C. Easton's Report: Fort Laramie to Fort Leavenworth via Republica n River in 1849” edited by Merrill J. Mattes reprinted form The Kansas Historical Quarterly May 1953 | |
| 002 | Article “Up Golden Trails of Kansas to Visit Leavenworth, Atchison and Hiawatha” by Margaret Olwine The Kansas City Star Nov 6, 1960 | ||
| 003 | Article “Trail trekking without the travel – Oregon, Santa Fe journeys are traced in Johnson County” by Jim Sullinger Kansas City Star Jul 3, 1993 | ||
| 004 | Article “Discover which route your family took west” Sep 25, 1994 | ||
| 005 | Article “He tracks the county's frontier trails” by Bill Sheldon The Kansas City Star Aug 7, 1996 | ||
| 006 | “Western Migration – Dreams of Gold and a Better Life Drive Mass Movement – 1841-1869” National Geographic Society Sep 2000 | ||
| 007 | “All cities now have markers installed” Trail Marker Vol 5 No 3 Aug-Oct 2000 | ||
| 008 | “Signmaster Program Underway” Trail Marker Vol 5 No 4 Nov-Jan 2001 | ||
| 009 | “Lone Elm Campground Saved!” Trail Marker Vol 6 No 1 Feb-Apr 2001 | ||
| 010 | “Etched in Time: Overland Memories of Johnson County” Album Johnson County Buseums Vol XVI No 2 Spring 2003 | ||
| 011 | “National Historic Trails – Auto tour Route interpretive Guide – Western Missouri through Northeastern Kansas” National Park Service Sep 2005 | ||
| 012 | Article “Life on the Trails” by Brian Burnes The Kansas City Star | ||
| 013 | Phamplet “Where the Trails Divide – Baldwin City Edgerton Gardner Olathe – Oregon California Santa Fe” presented by Johnson County Museum System | ||
| 014 | Phamplet “A Tale of Three Trails” National Frontier Trails Center | ||
| 015 | “Starting on the Trails in Johnson County” Friends of Johnson County Museums Vol V, No 4 | ||
| 016 | Phamplet “Following the Trails in Johnson County, Kansas” Johnson County Museum System | ||
| 017 | Phamplet “Discover where it all started – Kansas City Area historic Trails – The Santa Fe, Oregon, California and Military Trails” | ||
| 018 | A brief practical advice to the emigrant or traveler “Accompaniment to the Map of the Emigrant Road from Independence, MO to St Francisco, CA by T. H. Jefferson | ||
| 019 | Open letter “To Emigrants” by Medorem Crawford, Capt. A. Q. M. Commanding Emigrant Escort | ||
| 020 | Glossary “Westward, HO!” | ||
| 021 | Map of the Oregon-California and Santa Fe Trails in Johnson County | ||
| 022 | Map of Overland Park Historical Trails – California Road, Westport to Lawrence; Leavenworth/Ft Scott Military Road; and Santa Fe, Oregon, California Trail from Independence | ||
| 023 | Pamphlet “Frontier Military Scenic Byway” | ||
| 024 | Map of the Lane Trail through Kansas and Nebraska used as the Underground Railroad | ||
| 025 | Pamphlet “Trailside Travelers” | ||
| 026 | Pamphlet “Kansas City Area Historic Trail Sites” | ||
| 027 | Trails through present day Johnson and Jackson counties, source Craig Crease | ||
| 028 | Map “Exploration and Settlement 1800-1820 | ||
| 029 | Article “Paths of Migration and Commerce” discusses the three major trails Discover Feb 2013 |
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