This is the exterior of the
building housing the 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)