Kansas 05-Road Trip

During my 2005 New Mexico and Colorado road trip, I took a two-day swing through western Kansas. Pictures from that excursion are included here.

Mark Wasson, http://www.markwasson.com > Trips has detailed summaries of my trips

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Cattle feedlot along Highway 83, just outside Garden City, Kansas. It's...

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Some of the rugged Kansas landscape. Lake Scott State Park.

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El Cuartelejo Pueblo ruins is the only known southwestern ancestral puebloan...

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Once the bed of an ancient ocean, limestone chalk deposits have eroded into...

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Kansas is the Sunflower State, but I saw a lot more Sorghum

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This old bank building in Ness City is known as the Skyscraper of the Plains

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William Jennings Bryan nicknamed this Victoria, KS, church the...

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Car maker Walter P Chrysler lived in this Ellis, KS, home as a boy.

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The same chalk deposits that form Monument Rocks are also the source...

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William Cody and William Comstock were both nicknamed Buffalo Bill. So...

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Western Kansas view, from the cemetery of old Fort Wallace.

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They don't call Kansas the Sunflower State for nothing.

article published 3/25/2006

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