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 [...]
Category: U.S. History
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 [...]
Social Media Posts for March, 2022
The social media posts I wrote for the California Trail Interpretive Center for March were in honor of Women's History month. I chose simply to relate the experiences for four women as they passed through the Elko, Nevada region during their emigration to California in the mid-1800's. I traced their progress from near present-day Wells, [...]
The Watchmaker's Pulse 