Kansas has always been home to many forts and military posts. Kansas had a few military forts prior to 1854, when it became a territory. The French established...
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museums Atomic Cannon at Fort Riley Atomic Cannon history Atomic Cannon and other sites in Fort Riley Kansas forts and posts The short film Big Picture:...
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is the state capital. † County seat †† State capital and county seat See Kansas forts and posts for a historical list As a supplement to the list of cities...
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military post. Kansas Forts and Posts Camp Ben Butler. Woodbury F. Pride, The History of Fort Riley (n.p.: 1926), p. 46 William E. Connelley, Quantrill and the...
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commons:Category:Kansas commons:Category:Maps of Kansas Kansas Board of Regents Kansas City Track Association Kansas Department of Agriculture Kansas Forts and Posts Kansas...
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454-5; William C. Pollard, Jr., "Forts and Military Posts in Kansas: 1854-1865" (Ph.D. dissertation, Faith Baptist College and Seminary, 1997), p. 54. "Some...
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oldest active United States Army post west of Washington, D.C., and the oldest permanent settlement in Kansas. Fort Leavenworth has been historically...
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Fort Hays, originally named Fort Fletcher, was a United States Army fort near Hays, Kansas. Active from 1865 to 1889 it was an important frontier post...
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mysteries in Kansas." France portal North America portal History portal List of French forts in North America Kansas Historical Society (2004). "Fort de Cavagnial"...
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The site of Fort Dodge in the U.S. state of Kansas was originally an old campground for wagons traveling along the Santa Fe Trail, just west of the western...
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Defending the Journey West. Newton, Kansas: Kansas State Historical Society. ISBN 0-87726-051-6. Robert W. Frazer, Forts of the West (Norman, Okla.: u. of...
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tiny fur-trade posts. The French forts in Canada were located from the Atlantic Ocean to as far west as the confluence of the North and South Saskatchewan...
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Fort Dodge is a census-designated place (CDP) in Grandview Township, Ford County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 97....
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the fort, "This post abandoned Oct. 2/54." Robert W. Frazier, Forts of the West: Military Forts and Presidios and Posts Commonly Called Forts West...
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Restricted" Frazer, Robert Walter (1965). Forts of the West: Military Forts and Presidios, and Posts Commonly Called Forts, West of the Mississippi River to 1898...
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is a city in and the county seat of Geary County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 22,932. Fort Riley, a major...
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Clay Center, Kansas. January 12, 1922. p. 2. Retrieved June 5, 2018 – via Newspapers.com. William C. Pollard, Jr., Forts and Posts in Kansas During the...
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State," Fort Scott Tribune and the Fort Scott Monitor, May 30, 1942, anniversary ed., historical sec., p. 8. William A. Mitchell, Linn County, Kansas: A history...
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Leavenworth, Kansas. Several earthwork batteries were established overlooking the city of Leavenworth from along the southwestern edge of Fort Leavenworth...
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Fort Lane, on the crest of Mount Oread, then southwest of Lawrence, Kansas, was built by the residents of Lawrence in 1856 to serve as a lookout post...
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was destroyed by Indians in May 1868. Kansas Forts and Posts Bernard Bryan Smyth, The Heart of the New Kansas, 1880, pp 82-88 Two good lists of Indian...
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the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kansa people. Its capital is Topeka, and its most populous...
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trading posts that existed in the area of the present U.S. State of Colorado from 1828 to approximately 1868. The 24 historic trading posts in Colorado...
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Fort Harker, located in Kanopolis, Kansas, was an active military installation of the United States Army from November 17, 1866, to October 5, 1872. The...
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Forts of Fort Scott and the Fateful Borderlands (Kansas City: Lowell Press, 1976), p. 231; Charles E. Cory, "The Soldiers of Kansas. The Sixth Kansas...
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(1870) Robert W. Frazer, Forts of the West: Military Forts and Presidios, and Posts Commonly Called Forts, West of the Mississippi River to 1898 (Norman: University...
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Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 443. It was built on the site of Fort Harker, a United States Army post that...
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is a city in and the county seat of Ellis County, Kansas, United States. The largest city in northwestern Kansas, it is the economic and cultural center...
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Fort Scott National Historic Site is a historical area under the control of the United States National Park Service in Bourbon County, Kansas, United...
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early forts and batteries are the oldest standing masonry forts in the new world. Later forts constructed by the royal engineers were much larger and more...
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