A modern-day explorer's guide to the Old West

From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Great Plains states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas--one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series--highlights the best-preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, and works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America's Wild West history.

Introduction to the Great Plainsxxx

Oklahoma

Ada (Pontotoc County)xxx

Altus (Jackson County)xxx

Anadarko (Caddo County)xxx

Ardmore (Carter County)xxx

Bartlesville (Washington County)xxx

Boise City (Cimarron County)xxx

Cache (Comanche County)xxx

Chandler (Lincoln County)xxx

Cheyenne (Roger Mills County)xxx

Claremore (Rogers County)xxx

Cromwell (Seminole County)xxx

Dewey (Washington County)xxx

Duncan (Stephens County)xxx

Durant (Bryan County)xxx

Elk City (Beckham County)xxx

El Reno (Canadian County)xxx

Enid (Garfield County)xxx

Fort Gibson (Cherokee County)xxx

Fort Towson (Choctaw County)xxx

Geary (Blaine and Canadian Counties)xxx

Gene Autry (Carter County)xxx

Guthrie (Logan County)xxx

Ingalls (Payne County)xxx

Kingfisher (Kingfisher County)xxx

Lake Eufaula (McIntosh County)xxx

Lawton (Comanche County)xxx

Mangum (Greer County)xxx

Marlow (Stephens County)xxx

Muskogee (Muskogee County)xxx

Oklahoma City (Oklahoma County)xxx

Okmulgee (Okmulgee County)xxx

Pawnee (Pawnee County)xxx

Perkins (Payne County)xxx

Ponca City (Kaw County)xxx

Poteau (Le Flore County)xxx

Stillwater (Payne County)xxx

Tahlequah (Cherokee County)xxx

Tulsa (Tulsa County)xxx

Tuskahoma (Pushmataha County)xxx

Woodward (Woodward County)xxx

Kansas

Abilene (Dickinson County)xxx

Atchison (Atchison County)xxx

Athol (Smith County)xxx

Baxter Springs (Cherokee County)xxx

Belleville (Republic County)xxx

Caldwell (Sumner County)xxx

Cherryvale (Montgomery County)xxx

Cimarron (Gray County)xxx

Coffeyville (Montgomery County)xxx

Concordia (Cloud County)xxx

Coolidge (Hamilton County)xxx

Council Grove (Morris County)xxx

Dodge City (Ford County)xxx

Ellsworth (Ellsworth County)xxx

Fort Scott (Bourbon County)xxx

Garden City (Finney County)xxx

Goodland (Sherman County)xxx

Hays (Ellis County)xxx

Humbolt (Allen County)xxx

Kanopolis (Ellsworth County)xxx

Kansas City (Wyandotte County)xxx

Lansing (Leavenworth County)xxx

Larned (Pawnee County)xxx

Lawrence (Douglas County)xxx

Leavenworth (Leavenworth County)xxx

Leoti (Wichita County)xxx

Liberal (Seward County)xxx

Manhattan (Riley County)xxx

Marysville (Marshall County)xxx

Meade (Meade County)xxx

Medicine Lodge (Barber County)xxx

Newton (Harvey County)xxx

Nicodemus (Graham County)xxx

Oakley (Logan County)xxx

Oberlin (Decatur County)xxx

Pittsburg (Crawford County)xxx

Salina (Saline County)xxx

Topeka (Shawnee County)xxx

Victoria (Ellis County)xxx

Wallace (Wallace County)xxx

Wellington (Sumner County)xxx

Wichita (Sedgwick County)xxx

Nebraska

Alliance (Box Butte County)xxx

Bayard (Morrill County)xxx

Beatrice (Gage County)xxx

Bellevue (Sarpy County)xxx

Big Springs (Deuel County)xxx

Brownville (Nemaha County)xxx

Calloway (Custer County)xxx

Chadron (Dawes County)xxx

Chamberlain (Brule County)xxx

Columbus (Platte County)xxx

Crawford (Dawes County)xxx

Fairbury (Jefferson County)xxx

Fremont (Dodge County)xxx

Gering (Scotts Bluff County)xxx

Glenvil (Clay County)xxx

Gothenburg (Dawson County)xxx

Grand Island (Hall County)xxx

Haigler (Dundy County)xxx

Harvard (Clay County)xxx

Hayes Center (Hayes County)xxx

Kearney (Buffalo County)xxx

Kenesaw (Adams County)xxx

Lewellen (Garden County)xxx

Lexington (Dawson County)xxx

Lincoln (Lancaster County)xxx

Nebraska City (Otoe County)xxx

Newton (Red Willow County)xxx

North Platte (Lincoln County)xxx

Ogallala (Keith County)xxx

Omaha (Douglas County)xxx

Red Cloud (Webster County)xxx

Sidney (Cheyenne County)xxx

Valentine (Cherry County)xxx

South Dakota

Belle Fourche (Butte County)xxx

Custer (Custer County)xxx

Deadwood (Lawrence County)xxx

De Smet (Kingsbury County)xxx

Fort Pierre (Stanely County)xxx

Hill City (Pennington County)xxx

Hot Springs (Fall River County)xxx

Lead (Lawrence County)xxx

Mitchell (Davison County)xxx

Pierre (Hughes County)xxx

Pine Ridge (Oglala Lakota County)xxx

Rapid City (Pennington County)xxx

Sioux Falls (Minnehaha County)xxx

Sisseton (Roberts County)xxx

Spearfish (Lawrence County)xxx

Sturgis (Meade County)xxx

Yankton (Yankton County)xxx

North Dakota

Bismarck (Burleigh County)xxx

Devil's Lake (Ramsey County)xxx

Epping (Williams County)xxx

Fargo (Cass County)xxx

Hettinger (Adams County)xxx

Jamestown (Stutsman County)xxx

Mandan (Morton County)xxx

Medora (Billings County)xxx

Minot (Ward County)xxx

Pembina (Pembina County)xxx

Rhame (Bowman County)xxx

Wahpeton (Richland County)xxx

White Shield (McLean County)xxx

Williston (Williams County)xxx

Indexxxx

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