The National Frontier Trails Center

We'll promote the center Friends group here in exchange for use of their map.

 This is the view inside the front door. More sales displays on the right.

Turn left, you move into the museum itself.

 One the first exhibits that caught my eye was this model boat exhibit of the boats used

by the Lewis and Clark expedition.

 The infamous beaver!!

It drove exploration and commerce in middle America to the Rockies

in the first half of the nineteenth century.

 The beaver is actually staring out the window into a plaza featuring this statue of

a woman of the prairie!

 Tools and a rocking chair.

You'll have to go visit yourself to read and enjoy all the different stories!

 The first of a couple of covered wagon exhibits.

 Nancy checked this one out a little more closely.

 An example of some other exhibits down the hall from the covered wagon.

 A wall display featuring.... our host city.

 A magnificent survey crew equipment display!

I just want to stretch those links out and measure something!!

 Nancy finds the other covered wagon exhibit, with lots of supplies, shown below.

 Nice mural in the background makes it feel like you are out on the trail.

 A fuller view of the wagon itself.

 The supplies in more detail ...

 Just a sample. Hope you can visit sometime, also!

The only picture of the trip south through Missouri back roads

is a preview of things to come.

 Just north of Springfield, they are working on a state park around the home of Nataniel Boone,

son of Daniel Boone, of course.

 The house is over a ridge. We visited with a ranger working on it.

We'll check it out again in a year or two.

 See you down the road... (Don Coldsmith's close to his newspaper columns)