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Quivira Notes Quivira Chapter, SFTA Quivira Notes Don’t November 2012 Forget! Brian Stucky to Present Research to Pinpoint Location of Stone Corral Next meeting The Quivira Chapter of the Santa Fe Trail Association will meet on November Saturday 17th at 1:00pm. Following a short business meeting, Brian Stucky will present November 17th the results of his research on the Little Arkansas Crossing including pinpoint- Lunch: 12:00 pm ing the location of the Stone Corral. The meeting will be held at the Windom Program: 1:00pm Senior Center in Windom Kansas. The meeting is free and open to anyone. Af- ter the meeting, weather permitting, the group will move to the Little Arkansas Windom Senior Crossing area to review the sites with anyone who is interested. Center Windom, KS Lunch will precede the meeting at 12:00pm for anyone wishing to join us. The cost is $6.00. Call or email Linda Colle at 620-241-8719 or For Lunch Reser- [email protected] by Thursday November 15th so we can get a headcount vations, Contact for lunch. Linda Brian Stucky, The TRAILFINDER, specializes in pinpointing the location by November of historic pioneer trails, foundations or outlines of buildings, graves, In- 15th dian trails and Indian sites or other long-lost traces of civilization. Using a combination of the ancient art of Dowsing (water-witching) and modern 620-241-8719 technology, he has pinpointed spots on several trails, including the Santa Or email: Fe Trail, where he has located the exact sites of the Stone Corral, Fuller’s Ranch, French Frank’s Trading Post, and Lost Springs Station on the [email protected] Santa Fe Trail, and many other lesser known sites. $6/person In addition, he has located and identified sites on the Chisholm Trail, Ore- gon Trail, and the Cherokee Trail, and confirmed surveyed locations of In- dian trails such as the Kaw Indian Trail and Osage Trail. He is currently researching and mapping Pioneer and Indian Trails in Central Kansas for Membership Information a possible future book. Annual Membership in the Quivira Chapter: BRIAN D. STUCKY was raised on a farm in western Harvey County, KS, on the Individual or Family: $10 /yr Little Arkansas River, an area rich with Indian sites. He is a graduate of Annual Membership in the Moundridge High School and Bethel College (1975.) He has taught Art and Pho- SFTA: tography for over 30 years, most of those at Goessel High School. He has a wide Individual: $25/yr variety of interests, including church, writing, and historical interests. He is the Family: $30 /yr author of “Hallowed Hardwood, the Vintage Basketball Gyms of Kansas” first For more information: Call 620-241-8719 or published 2003 and distributed statewide. In August 2012, he was a speaker at Email [email protected] the National Convention of the Oregon-California Trails Association. Join us on Facebook! Quivira Chapter of the Santa Fe Trail Association QUIVIRA NOTES PAGE 2 The Ranch at Little Arkansas Crossing Louise Barry, Kansas Historical Quarterly, Autumn, 1972 (Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3), pages 287 to 294 NOTE: The numbers in brackets are links to footnotes for this text. NINETY miles west of Council Grove, near the eastern boundary of present Rice county, Santa Fe trail travelers forded the Little Arkansas river. Joseph C. Brown, the trail's surveyor, 1825-1827, in his re- port, stated: "It is important that the ford on the Little Arkansas be found, as it is generally impassible on account of high banks and unsound bed. The ford is perhaps half a mile below the mouth of a small creek [North branch, or North fork], which runs into it on the east side. At the crossing . there is wood for fuel and the water and grass are tolerably good." [1] It appears that William Mathewson (the original "Buffalo Bill") spent some months in 1857 and 1858 at Little Arkansas Crossing, trading with the Indians, and hunting buffalo. If so, no doubt he was the first white "settler" there. [2] In February, 1858, the territorial legislature granted E. F. Gregory and associates the privilege of building a bridge across the Little Arkansas "where the Santa Fe road crosses the same." Perhaps Gregory got gold fever later in the year, for there is no further mention of him. But the "associates" probably included William D. Wheeler (who soon became the dominant figure at Little Arkansas ranch), as well as Asahel Beach and son Abijah (who, in the late fall of 1858, sepa- rated from the group and established themselves at Cow creek, 18 miles to the west). [3] Augustus Voorhees, en route to Pike's Peak with the "Lawrence party" of gold-seekers in 1858, re- corded in his diary on June 7: "Drove twenty-one miles to the Little Arkansas. Saw several herd of buf- falo, one was killed, got but little meat, it was to far from the road. But little timber on the river and but little watter. The banks are quite high. They are building a bridge here. The timber is cotton wood and box elder." The same day cotraveler William B. Parsons wrote: "Camped on the Little Arkansas. There is a trading post at this place, and a bridge in process of erection. The crossing is abominable." [4] continued on page 3 Jim Gray Will Speak to Quivira Chapter on Kansas Day Jim Gray will present “A Bullwhacker’s Life Freighting Supplies over the Plains’ at the Quivira Chap- ter meeting on Kansas Day, January 29, 2013. The meeting will be held 7:00pm at the Lyons State Bank Community Room, 104 E. Ave North in Lyons, KS. The program is sponsored by the Kansas Hu- manities Council. Bullwhackers traveled the Kansas frontier over and over again, freighting supplies and shaping a pro- fession now enjoyed by today’s long-haul truck drivers. Traveling the Santa Fe, California-Oregon, and Smoky Hill Trails, commercial and independent bullwhackers walked beside their ox-drawn wagons, courting danger with every trip. This presentation examines how fortunes could be won or lost and how bullwhackers tested their skills at peaceful negotiation as they passed through lands controlled by prairie bands of Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, and Comanche peoples. Only through tribal bless- ing were the bullwhackers allowed safe passage. QUIVIRA NOTES PAGE 3 The Ranch at Little Arkansas Crossing, continued On July 12 H. B. Möllhausen and party, eastbound, reached the crossing and "camped on the right bank [west side of the stream] near a little log cabin which several adventurers had erected for the purpose of trading with the Kaw Indians," who were camped "farther above at a distance of about four miles." Two days earlier, Indian agent Robert C. Miller, westbound, had arrived at the Little Arkan- sas, overtaking there trader William Bent and the wagon train carrying annuity goods for the Plains tribes. Miller's subsequent report to the Commissioner of Indian affairs particularly mentioned the presence of the Kansa "returning home from the upper Arkansas," who had been in the vicinity sev- eral days, "attracted to the spot by the loadstone of whiskey, dealt out to them by a creature bearing the face and form of man, who receives, in return for his vile stuff, the few ponies and robes they had obtained from the Indians of the Arkansas." [5] An unidentified gold-seeker, on his way to Pike's Peak with some 20 companions, arrived at Little Ar- kansas Crossing on October 22, 1858, and camped for a day on the west side. In his journal he wrote: "This is a fine place . We here once more find the residence of a white man, who hunts, trades, etc. He is building a bridge across the river." [6] The odds are that William D. Wheeler was the log cabin's occupant. But no traveler in 1858 mentioned a name. A November issue of the Western Journal of Commerce, Kansas City, Mo., contained a "Table of Dis- tances from Kansas City to the Gold Regions of Pike's Peak." For "Little Arkansas," 212 miles from Kansas City, the "Remarks" column read: "Mail station, store, water, grass, bridge and Buffalo." About this time, but not known to the table-of-distances compiler, Asahel and Abijah Beach and oth- ers were establishing themselves at Cow Creek Crossing (Beach Valley), 18 miles west of the Little Arkansas. It was at Beach Valley that a post office subsequently was established, early in 1859. So the mail station at the Little Arkansas was short-lived. [7] This photograph was identified only as "GREENWAY" who owned an early-day ferry near Wichita, and was brother-in- law to Pioneer Wichitan William Greiff- enstein. Presumably it is a portrait of A. J. GREENWAY who was at Little Ar- kansas ranch in the mid-1860's and at Wichita in 1869. Greiffenstein and Greenway married daughters of Pot- tawatomie chief Abram Burnett. QUIVIRA NOTES PAGE 4 The Ranch at Little Arkansas Crossing, continued QUIVIRA NOTES PAGE 5 The Ranch at Little Arkansas Crossing, continued The territorial legislature in February, 1859, authorized William T. Williamson, Columbus Hornsby, Thomas Lounds, and James C. Horton to "establish a bridge across Little Arkansas river where Santa Fe road crosses it." There is no evidence these men made use of their charter, though they may have operated a ferry, briefly. When William W. Salisbury, on his way to the gold fields, arrived at the "little Arcasas" at 11 o'clock on May 18, 1859, he recorded in his journal: ". toll bridge here 25 cts. toll. but little timber Poore water saw a man that had been shot acidentely in the hip." Another gold-seeker, Charles C.
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