Read the Frontier Traveler’s Tweets on Flipboard

March 1, 2012

  If you have an iPhone or an iPad, you can download the free Flipboard app and read the Frontier Traveler in magazine style.  Of course we still want you to come visit our site (!) – but why not enjoy a dose of American Travel with your morning coffee. (Click on links to enlarge [...]

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Beyond Geronimo Exhibit at Heard Museum

March 1, 2012

“The story of a legendary Apache warrior who is said to have walked without leaving footprints as he evaded thousands of Mexican and U.S. soldiers easily overshadows that of other Apaches who were trying to protect their people and way of life from encroachment.  An exhibit featuring Geronimo and other Apache tribe warriors in history [...]

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Travel to an Historic Stone Barn, Robinson, Kansas

February 29, 2012

For the settlers on the frontier, the construction of a barn sometimes took precedence even over the building of a house.  With the inclement weather on the prairies and plains, shelter for their animals as well as storage of hay, grain, and tools was a high priority.  Nancy and I have seen many old barns [...]

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Tennessee Commemorates 150th Anniversary of Battle of Shiloh

February 9, 2012

SHILOH, Tenn. — Tennessee’s Shiloh National Military Park, a masterpiece of Civil War interpretation and preservation, will hold the 150th commemoration of its strategic battle during a series of events taking place March 29-April 8. On a personal note, the Frontier Traveler’s great-great-grandfather, James Knox, of the 18th Missouri Infantry was wounded here. The state’s [...]

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Battle of Beecher Island, Wray, Colorado

February 9, 2012

The Battle of Beecher Island, also known as the Battle of Arikaree Fork, was an armed conflict between elements of the United States Army and several of the Plains native American tribes in September 1868. Beecher Island, on the Arikaree River, then known as part of the North Fork of the Republican River, near present-day [...]

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Baca House, Trinidad, Colorado

February 8, 2012

Felipe Baca, a farmer from Northern New Mexico, settled in the area around Trinidad in 1860, drawn by the good soil and river water for irrigation.  In 1873, he purchased this house from John Hough, a Santa Fe Trail entrepreneur who had built the house just three years prior.  Hough traded the house to Baca [...]

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Battlefield National Cemetery Washington, D.C.

February 6, 2012

On July 12, 1864, 40 Union soldiers who died while defending Washington, D.C. from a two day Confederate attack (known as the Battle of Fort Stevens) were buried here in what was once an apple orchard.  President Lincoln dedicated the land as hallowed ground, making Battlefield National Cemetery one of America’s smallest

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Blacksmith at Mt. Vernon

January 30, 2012

Over several years of excavation the site of the original Blacksmith Shop was unearthed at Mt. Vernon and as of 2009 a working blacksmith shop is now in operation.  The Mt. Vernon accounts list several transactions related to the smithy, including making horseshoes, plows, axes, keys, gun repair, etc.  Today all of the forge items [...]

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Another Disastrous December – the Fetterman Massacre

December 21, 2011

December 21 marks the 145th anniversary of the Fetterman Massacre, which took place near Fort Phil Kearny, in present-day Wyoming. Fort Kearny was built along the Bozeman Trail, although the establishment of a fort here was never agreed to by Red Cloud at the 1866 council at Fort Laramie. The fort’s commanding officer was Colonel [...]

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