from Sween's Travel Guide and Reservations and the Interactive Santa Fe Trail

Rediscovering the Santa Fe Trail
through Kansas
Reservations: staying along the Santa Fe Trail today

Santa Fe Trail
Kansas scenes
Other states

From Missouri, the trail avoided crossing
the Kaw and Missouri Rivers by going
southwest through Johnson County (KS)

* The Kaw empties into the Missouri River (1997)
* April reenactment, Johnson Co (1999)
* Trail ride through Johnson Co (1999)
* Mahaffie Farmstead Olathe (1997)
* Ruts behind Lanesfield school, Edgerton
* Gardner, where the trails divide
* Gardner, where the trails divide
* Baldwin sign
* Baldwin log cabin (1995)
* Ruts near Black Jack
* Lone Jack wagon ruts
* Burlingame wide main street
* Burlingame KS cemetery (1995)
* Elizabeth Baily and infant Burlingame cemetery
* Council Grove Madonna of the Trail
* Council Grove trail marker
* Buffalo on the plains (1995)
* Simmons Point sign, by Don
* Dodge City marker
* Dodge City Longhorn Steer
* Dodge City sign

More photos

Missouri & the trail For more information on the trail,
see the Interactive Santa Fe Trail


History Index
This is SFT
Kansas

Santa Fe Trail index
New Franklin MO

SFT in Missouri
New Franklin

SFT in NewMexico
Fort Union

Side trip:
Fort Scott KS
Fort Scott Re-enactors

Side trip:
Fort Leavenworth


KS
* West of the Missouri was native American land
* Olathe KS: Mahaffie Farmstead
* Stage stop, at Mahaffie
* Mahaffie house
* Mahaffie Farmstead
* Early air conditioning, Johnson Co KS 1999
* April 1999 reenactment Johnson Co KS
* Buffalo on the plains
* Trail crossed here

OKLAHOMA
(no photos)
NEW MEXICO
* The Plaza, end of the trail: Santa Fe, NM

Most photographs and Website by Nancy Sween


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