Kansas Historic Trails, Old West Kansas KS - Santa Fe Trail, Oregon Trail, Chisholm Trail, Mormon Trail, Western Trails History

Kansas Historic Trails

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Butterfield Stage	Cherokee Trail	Chisholm Trail	Leavenworth Pike's Peak Express	Oregon Trail
Jones and Plummer Trail	Pony Express	Santa Fe Trail	Smoky Hill Trail	Trail of Sac and Fox

Kansas Collection Trail Resources

On The Trail -- Resources on many Kansas trails
Old Kansas area maps

Butterfield Stage/Butterfield Overland Dispatch (original not in Kansas)

Butterfield Stage Route
Butterfield Stage History
The Raynesford Papers - biography of Howard Raynesford with many notes including the Butterfield Dispatch
St. Louis to California, through Texas (includes map), Wells Fargo
Nothing Must Stop The Mail! The Butterfield Overland Express

Chisholm Trail/Chisholm Cattle Trail

Chisholm Trail Route
Chisholm Trail History
Kansas Cowtowns - prairie trails and cowtowns

Cherokee Trail

Cherokee Trail Diaries, Vol. 1 1849 (Jack Fletcher)

Leavenworth-Pikes Peak Express/ Central Overland California and Pikes Peak (COC & PP)/ Overland Trail Stage

Leavenworth-Pikes Peak Express Route
Leavenworth-Pikes Peak Express History
Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Route
Overland Trail Stage Route
The Overland Trail -- Elizabeth Larson
Prairie Traveler - A Handbook for Overland Expeditions, by Randolph B. Marcy, 1859

Oregon Trail/California Trail/Independence Road

Route
History
California Trail
Early Days in Nemaha County, Kansas
The Oregon Trail Thru Pottawatomie County -- Kansas Collection

Jones and Plummer Trail

The Jones and Plummer Trail As It Crossed Meade County, Kansas

Pony Express

Santa Fe Trail

Route
History
Santa Fe Trail (Nancy Sween)
Commerce of the Prairies -- Kansas Collection
Brief Summary of the Santa Fe Trail Through Kansas, the Committee of the Kansas State Historical Society on the Santa Fe Trail through Kansas, 1911-12 -- Kansas Collection
Santa Fe Trail Maps -- Kansas Collection

Smoky Hill Trail to Western Gold Mines/Military Road/ Butterfield Trail/Butterfield Overland Dispatch/Butterfield Stage Line

The Trail of the Sac and Fox

Tales and Trails of the Wakarusa

Kansas Historic Trails Sources

The Kansas Heritage Server would like to thank the late Richard A. Ensminger, Kirkwood, Missouri, for contributing to this material. Rich loved to read about the old west, and this material is archived in Rich's memory.

Site created: 17 December 1993
Stage Line info created: 2 July 1994
Updated: 19 November 2017.

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