Blog /blog/stories/ Blog Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:35:08 +0000 Good Day Kansas Explores: Pony Express Station & Museum, Marysville /blog/stories/post/good-day-kansas-explores-pony-express-station-museum-marysville/ /blog/stories/post/good-day-kansas-explores-pony-express-station-museum-marysville/#comments /blog/stories/post/good-day-kansas-explores-pony-express-station-museum-marysville/ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 10:00:00 -0400

Marysville, Kansas played a significant role in the history of the Pony Express. It was one of the original stations along the Pony Express route, which ran from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. The Pony Express was a fast mail delivery service that operated during the mid-19th

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Good Day Kansas Explores: True Crime Exhibit - Garden City /blog/stories/post/good-day-kansas-explores-true-crime-exhibit-garden-city/ /blog/stories/post/good-day-kansas-explores-true-crime-exhibit-garden-city/#comments /blog/stories/post/good-day-kansas-explores-true-crime-exhibit-garden-city/ Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:00:00 -0400

True Crime Exhibit | Solving Notorious Cases from Finney County’s History, Garden City

True Crime Tourism is a thing, and Garden City is here for it. While the places these crimes occurred aren’t typically tourist attractions, people are willing to travel to see items left behind at the crime scene

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Untamed Fun in Southwest Kansas /blog/stories/post/untamed-fun-in-southwest-kansas/ /blog/stories/post/untamed-fun-in-southwest-kansas/#comments /blog/stories/post/untamed-fun-in-southwest-kansas/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:00:00 -0400

The wild spaces of southwest Kansas still cut loose today with captivating culture and genuine Western heritage. Towns corral their rowdy charm in bandits’ hideouts, Front Street gunfights, frontier forts, Old West museums and cavernous 109-foot-deep wells. Outside of town, life-filled landscapes,

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One Epic Trail. Two Hundred Years. /blog/stories/post/one-epic-trail-two-hundred-years/ /blog/stories/post/one-epic-trail-two-hundred-years/#comments /blog/stories/post/one-epic-trail-two-hundred-years/ Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:00:00 -0500

In 1821, Captain William Becknell and a party of five headed west from the Missouri River to trade mules and horses and to hunt on the plains. They wound up in welcoming Santa Fe, eventually carving a 900-mile trade route that thousands of freighters, military troops, Native Americans and others

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