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The Mormon Trail (South Fork), Geary County Historical Society, The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints
The Mormon Trail (South Fork), Geary County Historical Society, The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints
Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal
Between 1846 and 1869 thousands of Mormon immigrants traversed the Great Plains enroute to sanctuary in the Great Basin of the Rocky Mountains. The main route ran through Nebraska, paralleling the Platte River.
Cattle And Railroads – The Flint Hills Connection, Phil Miller
Cattle And Railroads – The Flint Hills Connection, Phil Miller
Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal
For centuries the lush grasses of the Kansas Flint Hills were the domain of the American Bison. But the coming of railroads in the 1860s signaled a change in the life of the prairie … the end of the Bison’s reign and the arrival of domesticated cattle. By 1867 the Kansas Pacific Railway had reached Abilene, and the cattle drives from Texas along the Chisholm Trail brought cattle to Abilene for shipment to the packinghouses of Kansas City, St. Joseph and points east.