Monday, June 13, 2011

 

SFTA-IMLS Conservation Bookshelf Grant

Santa Fe Trail Center:
IMLS Conservation Bookshelf Grant, June 2009:

I began collaborating with KAWS-KELP/KVHA-KWO & KSHS Kaw Mission to advocate digital library initiatives via http://geoventuring-lnt.blogspot.com/
(mid-2005) …

[A] OCTA-Trails Admin-Manager Travis Boley challenged me to adapt Wisconsin’s Ice Age National Scenic Trail as a model for documenting Kaw Valley’s California Road stagecoach route from Westport to Lawrence in Aug-2005.

Our KELP Class 6-2005 Advanced Leadership Project hatched the Ridges of Leavenworth County to overcome elevation awareness deficiency and to empower Google Maps adding a new “Terrain Tab” plus photo geo-tags!

See: http://geoventuring-lnt.blogspot.com/search?q=IATR

[B] I represented Kaw Valley Heritage Alliance at Westport’s 2006 National Heritage Alliance (NHA) workshop. KVHA & OCTA-Trails hosted a Mapping Emigrant Trails (MET) workshop at Kanwaka Township Hall (May-2007)

See: http://geoventuring-lnt.blogspot.com/search?q=Heritage

[C] While enroute to the Sep-2007 Santa Fe Trail Association’s Symposium in Trinidad, I visited Larned, KS. I began seeking more clues about the Canadian-Cimarron River watershed Lost Legends of La Flecha” …

Contact: Santa Fe Trail Center
1349 K-156 Hwy
Larned, KS 67550
(620) 285-2054
museum@santafetrailcenter.org

Institute of Museum and Library Services:
IMLS Contact: Jeannine Mjoseth
202-653-4632
jmjoseth@imls.gov


[D] SFTA’s Admin-Manager Clive Segal’s invited our adapting Pueblo’s Historic Arkansas River Project (HARP) as an “EcoTrekUSA mapXchange” Enviro-Education GPSurvey benchmark for High-TEK GeoScouting & GeoVenturing …

See: http://geoventuring-lnt.blogspot.com/2007/10/sfta-social-responsibility-pathfinders.html (Oct-2007)

[E] While supporting the 2008-09 Mormon Battalion Trek reenactment from Weston to Council Grove, I learned Fort Leavenworth’s “supply-chain” route was shifted from the KSHS Grinter Place crossing to Eudora’s Fish Ferry

See: http://geoventuring-lnt.blogspot.com/search?q=Mormon

[F] We embedded KVHAdventuring “lessons learned” from Upper Wakarusa Watershed WRAPS stakeholders into our USNPS Freedom’s Frontier NHA Interpretation & Education master planning process via Caring for the Kaw

See: http://geoventuring-lnt.blogspot.com/search?q=FFNHA


[G] I asked Monticello Community Historical Society to focus on trade & transportation corridors of influence by focusing on how to most authentically showcase Kaw River’s rope ferry crossings like the 1828 Chouteau Ferry …

See: http://geoventuring-lnt.blogspot.com/search?q=chouteau

Ferries played important role

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Moses Grinter served in the Army at the Leavenworth Cantonment in 1828. ...
"The Chouteau Ferry," also known as "The Cook" and "The Campbell," ...
www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/documents/ferriesplayed.pdf

Trading Posts, Stores, Mills and Blacksmiths

Chouteau's Trading Post 1828-4?, Cyprian Chouteau, Proprietor ....
trader at Uniontown in 1848, and established a ferry at Tecumseh on the Kansas River in 1854. ...
www.kansasheritage.org/werner/tradpost.html - Cached - Similar

FutureThought mapXchange: Monticello Community Eco-History

Jun 3, 2011 ... 1828: Frederick Chouteau (grandson of a co-founder of St. Louis)
established a trading post and ferry near Mill Creek. ...
futurethought-mapxchange.blogspot.com/.../monticello-community-eco-history.html - Cached


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