Kansas/Nebraska/Missouri Parks

 

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas

 

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Brown v Board of Educatoin National Historic Site - Topeka, Kansas

 

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Homestead National Monument - Nebraska

 

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On the way back, I drove through some Nebraska farmland

 

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Then found some Kansas Sunflower fields

 

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Wilson's Creek National Battlefield - Missouri

This is one of the best preserved battlefields from the Civil War 

 

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George Washington Carver National Monument - Joplin, Missouri

 

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Harry S Truman National Historic Site - Independence, Missouri

The City of Independence is one of my customers so this was an easy one!  I also visited the Presidential Library and Museum.  While not affiliated with the National Park Program it was still very interesting.

 

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Fort Scott National Historic Site - Kansas

 

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The girls didn't like it when I closed the door on them inside the solitary confinement cell.....in the guardhouse.....

 

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Sworn in as Junior Rangers at Fort Scott, KS

 

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