The Fort Leavenworth-Fort Gibson
Military Road and the
Founding of Fort Scott
by Louise Barry
May, 1942 (Vol. XI, No. 2), pages 115 to 129
Transcribed by Larry E. & Carolyn L. Mix ; HTML editing by Name withheld by request;
digitized with permission of the Kansas State Historical Society.
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... on the northwest (in the Platte river region ... the Spring river site they attempted to purchase
... Agent John Dougherty had suggested a frontier military road in ...
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The original route was called "Military Road" and connected the Liberty ...
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Their route was, no doubt, west to Barry on the boundary between Missouri
and the Platte Purchase (consummated in 1836), and then northwest on the 1828 Military Road...
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It is located on the Frontier Military Scenic Byway (U.S. Route 69 and K-7 corridor),
which was originally a military road ... S. government in the Platte Purchase ...
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A military road from Fort Leavenworth came through the
... was established 11 October 1865 as a frontier military post
... on a summer tour, traveled from the South Platte ...
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The military post of Fort Leavenworth, on the same side ...
The Platte Purchase. The boundaries for the state of Missouri ...
was about to let out a job for making a road
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