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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMO7_sounds-from-the-past-hoof-beats-and-heartbeats_Pleasanton-KS.html
Pro- and anti-slavery forces made their way to this area on horseback and on foot in the fight over whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state. Skirmishes, scuffles and screams could be heard in the woodlands nearby.
The Marias des C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMO5_sounds-along-the-byway-anxiety-and-anticipation-in-the-creak-of-wagon-wheels_Pleasanton-KS.html
Westward bound settlers crossed and traveled the Frontier Military Road as they headed to new land and new lives. These migrants faced the unknown with anxiety and anticipation in search of a better life. The Sante Fe Trail, the Oregon Trail and t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMO3_sounds-along-the-roadway-soldiers-on-the-move_Pleasanton-KS.html
The Frontier Military Road was used to provide soldiers and supplies to the forts along the "Permanent Indian Frontier". Fort Leavenworth and Fort Scott were on the route in what is now eastern Kansas. The only major Civil War Battle in Kansas was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMO2_sounds-along-the-byway-saws-picks-and-axes_Pleasanton-KS.html
"The ax, pick, saw and trowel, has become more the implement of the American soldier than the cannon, musket or sword."Colonel Zachary Taylor, 1820
In 1836, President Andrew Jackson authorized $100,000 to build a military road from Fort Snellin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMNZ_sounds-along-the-byway-fur-traders-bringing-their-goods_Pleasanton-KS.html
In 1825, Cyprian Chouteau, of the Chouteau family that founded St. Louis, Missouri, came to this area to open a trading post. The Choteau family members were extensive fur traders in the Missouri River Valley and present-day eastern Kansas and Okl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMNX_sounds-along-the-byway-auto-trucks-and-buses_Pleasanton-KS.html
Today's Frontier Military Scenic Byway visitors travel at higher speeds and in greater numbers than those who traveled the Frontier Military Road in the 1800s. Vehicles protect today's travelers from the weather, and our roadways of today keep tra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDCJ_battle-of-mine-creek_Pleasanton-KS.html
Of the approximately 600 Confederate casualties in this battle, many of those killed in action were buried in unmarked graves on this battlefield.
Most of the dead were from Marmaduke's Missouri Cavalry Division and Fagan's Arkansas Cavalry Div…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDCG_battle-of-mine-creek_Pleasanton-KS.html
Upon this rolling prairie and across Mine Creek occurred the largest Civil War battle in Kansas. It also was one of the largest cavalry battles of the Civil War. Nearly 8,000 Confederate soldiers clashed with 2,500 Union troops. The battle lasted …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD8O_marais-du-cygne-martyrs-memorial_Pleasanton-KS.html
(Front):Rev. B. L. ReadJohn F. CampbellWilliam ColpetzerMichael RobertsonPatrick RossWilliam HairgroveAsa HairgroveCharles SniderWilliam A StilwellAmos HallAustin Hall(Side 2):On the 19th day of May 1858, the men whose namesappear on this monument…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BH_marais-des-cygnes-massacre_Pleasanton-KS.html
Nothing in the struggle over slavery in Kansas did more to inflame the nation than the mass killing which took place May 19, 1858, about four miles northeast of this marker. Charles Hamelton who had been driven from the territory by Free-State men…