The Smoky Hill Trail ran through the Smoky Hills, in central Great Plains of North America, and was in use from 1855 to 1870. Before American colonization...
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originates from the Smoky Hill Trail, a historic trail stretching from Kansas to Denver. The trail is also the namesake of Smoky Hill Road, where the school...
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The Smoky Hill River is a 575-mile (925 km) river in the central Great Plains of North America, running through Colorado and Kansas. The Smoky Hill is...
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Lincoln County, Colorado (section Historic trail)
Boyero Karval Punkin Center Smoky Hill Trail The name "Smoky Hill" comes from the appearance of the misty or smoky hills that the westward travelers viewed...
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Cheyenne County, Colorado (section Historic Trails)
trail came from Kansas into northeast Cheyenne County and merged with the Smoky Hill Trail east of Cheyenne Wells. Smoky Hill Trail - The Smoky Hill Trail...
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The Smoky Hills are an upland region of hills in the central Great Plains of North America. They are located in the Midwestern United States, encompassing...
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1870, Salina incorporated as a city. As the westernmost town on the Smoky Hill Trail, Salina boomed until the Civil War by establishing itself as a trading...
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precipitated the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. Many Fifty-Niners took the "Smoky Hill Trail" west through Kansas Territory up the Kansas River valley. The last...
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Kuwohi (redirect from Smoky Dome (Tennessee–North Carolina))
Smoky Mountains National Park, the highest point in the state of Tennessee, and the highest point along the 2,192-mile (3,528 km) Appalachian Trail....
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Appalachian Trail passes through the center of the park on its route from Georgia to Maine. With 13 million visitors in 2023, the Great Smoky Mountains...
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The Cherokee Trail was a historic overland trail through the present-day U.S. states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming that was used from the...
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Butterfield Overland Despatch stage and freight wagons traveling the Smoky Hill Trail from Cheyenne and Arapaho attacks, the U.S. Army established Fort Fletcher...
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Native Americans. A detachment was also sent to Fort Wallace on the Smoky Hill Trail to get supplies. On their return, they were able to defend themselves...
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The Goodnight–Loving Trail was a trail used in the cattle drives of the late 1860s for the large-scale movement of Texas Longhorns. It is named after...
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The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri, with Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pioneered in 1821...
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Kit Carson County, Colorado (section Historic trail)
Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel #6, National Historic Landmark Smoky Hill Trail Burlington Bethune Flagler Seibert Stratton Vona Government portal...
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American Indian Wars (section Black Hills War)
stations along the South Platte, such as at Julesburg, and along the Smoky Hill Trail, resulted in many settlers in both Colorado and Kansas adopting a very...
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Arapahoe County, Colorado (section Historic trails)
Creek State Park Smoky Hill Trail South Platte Trail Highline Canal National Recreation Trail Platte River Greenway National Recreation Trail As of the census...
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MacMonnies was commissioned to design a monument marking the end of the Smoky Hill Trail. The bronze Indian guide he envisaged was vetoed by the committee and...
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Platte Trail, the others were Smoky Hill Trail and the Oregon Trail to Fort Laramie and then south to Denver. In 1859, a branch of the trail away from...
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the junction of the Fort Riley-Fort Larned Road and the Smoky Hill Trail, near the Smoky Hill River. Its purpose was to protect construction of the Union...
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made its way across the plains from southern Kansas following the Smoky Hill Trail in 1870. In 1888, the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad (now...
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policed by the Glendale Police Department. In 1859, the Cherokee Trail (and the Smoky Hill Trail -south branch) came down Cherry Creek Valley past the Four...
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The Overland Trail (also known as the Overland Stage Line) was a stagecoach and wagon trail in the American West during the 19th century. While portions...
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place during the 1800s along the Smoky Hill Trail. It is one of the last two remaining trail houses left on the trail. Mary Hightower was the original...
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become Oakley was settled in the 1870s and 1880s by travelers from the Smoky Hill Trail. Oakley was founded in 1884 by Judge Fredman and David D. Hoag. Originally...
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in (mostly in Shenandoah National Park, the Great Smoky Mountains, and Maine), the original trail often climbed straight up and down mountains, creating...
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The Trapper's Trail or Trappers' Trail is a north-south path along the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains that links the Great Platte River Road at Fort...
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Hays, Kansas (category Boot Hill cemeteries)
southeast of present-day Hays to protect stagecoaches traveling the Smoky Hill Trail. A year later, the Army renamed the post Fort Hays in honor of the...
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the historic Nine Mile House, one of several stage stops along the Smoky Hill Trail. This stop was nine miles from Denver. Regional Transportation District...
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