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1 sie 2024 · At Fort Larned, which lies just steps from the Santa Fe Trail, cultures mixed every day. Soldiers met Plains Indians, European American and Hispanic teamsters, homesteaders, hide hunters, scouts, and railroad workers. US Army regulars served with paroled Confederates.
Fort Larned was an American military post on the Santa Fe Trail located a few miles west of Larned, Kansas. The fort was operational from 1859 to 1878 as one of several frontier forts that were established in the mid-1800s.
12 gru 2023 · Discover a complete and authentic army post from the 1860s -1870s! This well-preserved fort on the Santa Fe Trail shares a tumultuous history of the Indian Wars era. The sandstone constructed buildings sheltered troops who were known as the Guardians of the Santa Fe Trail.
15 lut 2024 · On September 1, 1859, Lieutenant Eli Long and Company H, 1st US Cavalry departed Fort Riley. On September 27, they arrived at Beach's Ranch, an area in modern-day Rice County. Their duty was to escort mail to a crossing of the Arkansas River.
Capt. Theodore Conkey commanded Fort Larned from May 7, 1865 to June 27, 1865. Public Domain. First Lt. W. D. Crocker of the Ninth Wisconsin Battery was in command of Fort Larned in January, but was soon replaced by Captain Thomas Moses, Jr., Second Colorado Cavalry.
Sold at auction by the General Land Office in 1884, Fort Larned passed through the hands of several owners, most of them headquarters of agricultural concerns. The Fort site, including the buildings, was finally purchased by E. E. Frizell in 1902 and remained in the hands of his family until its establishment as a National Historic Site.
On July 1, 1902, E.E. Frizell purchased Fort Larned from Frorer. He paid $40,000 for 3,000 acres, of which 250 were under cultivation. Frizell had come with his parents from Jefferson County, Illinois, to Pawnee County, Kansas, in the late 1870s.
