Sounds from the past...hoof beats and heartbeats.
Frontier Military Scenic Byway
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 Cygnes Massacre occurred just northeast of here on May 19, 1858 when pro-slavery forces came from Missouri and captured 11 free-state men, killing five of them in a ravine. In December, 1858, John Brown gathered 11 slaves in Missouri and brought them to Kansas on their way to Canada on the underground railroad. The freed slaves reached Windsor, Canada in March, 1859.
Courtesy hmdb.org
