May 22 – A 5-month virtual road trip along the California Trail The Big Blue river crossing lies just west of Marysville, KS very near where US Highway 36 crosses it. Near here you can visit Historic Trails Park (GPS coordinates -96.659, 39.843) which has several interpretive signs and a full-size replica of a rope [...]
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May California Trail Social Media Posts: Week 3
May 15 – A 5-month virtual road trip along the California Trail There were many streams like Elm Creek (GPS coordinates -96.612, 39.732) which had to be crossed in this area. But streams weren't the only thing on the minds of the emigrants. While passing through this region, Harlow Chittenden Thompson (https://www.octa-journals.org/merrill-mattes-collection/harlow-chittenden-thompson-across-the-continent-on-foot-in-1859), in 1859, wrote, [...]
May California Trail Social Media Posts: Week 2
May 8 – A 5-month virtual road trip along the California Trail The California Trail crossed the Wakarusa River in at least three places just south and southeast of Lawrence, KS. There are no historical markers at this site that I am aware of, but you can drive across a bridge on east 1400 road [...]
May California Trail Social Media Posts: Week 1
During the summer of 2022 (May 1 through September 30) I have a series of daily posts planned for social media for the California Trail Interpretive Center. These posts will take the readers on a "virtual road trip" along the California Trail encompassing approximately the same time period that emigrants followed it from 1841 to [...]
Social Media Posts for April 2022
Here are the Trail history posts that I wrote for April for the California Trail Interpretive Center. For Frontier Fridays in April we're looking at preparations emigrants made to make the journey to California. Then beginning May 1 we'll be posting every day through September 30, following a "virtual road trip" along the Trail. April [...]
The Watchmaker's Pulse 