Monday, June 13, 2011
SFTA-IMLS Conservation Bookshelf Grant
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
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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
