Featured Waypoint: Fort Larned National Historic Site

Black men dressed as soldiers on horses in front of stone building
Buffalo Soldier reenactors at Fort Larned, Kansas | Photo National Park Service

This Army post in Pawnee County, Kansas, moved here in 1859, served as a headquarters for Santa Fe Trail law enforcement and protection and a place  for American and Native American leaders to meet.

The University of New Mexico has interesting descriptions of the fort's complicated history during the 1860s and 1870s and the National Park Service has a wealth of information on its Fort Larned site.