Planned Events of the Quivira Chapter
April 16, 2007, 7:00pm: Program at Galva Museum, Main Street, Galva, Kansas. Speaker: John Stratton, “A Pioneer Gone: The Life of Charles O. Fuller in Central Kansas, 1855 – 1879.” John is a charter member of the Santa Fe Trail Association and a native Kansan with roots in Washington and McPherson Counties. He has a long-standing interest in the history of the trail in central Kansas.
May 5 –6, 2007: Millfest Weekend at the historic Old Mill Museum Lindsborg Kansas. Celebrate the pioneer era and settlement of central Kansas! Events include:
• Annual operation of the Mill
• Living history demonstrations
• Arts and crafts featuring our own Bob Button and the Great Bend woodcarvers
• Traditional music
• Quivira Chapter Booth to promote the Trail
• Food
June - Ellinwood, KS (Date & location to be announced): Speaker - Robert Yarmer – Uniforms of the Past. Rededication of the Ellinwood DAR marker.
July/August (Date to be announced): Quivira Chapter Tour. A tour of the Quivira Chapter lead by Britt Colle. The tour highlights include the Elyria Indian Treaty site, the Berg Cottonwood, and Joe Swanson’s ruts in his pasture at the Little Arkansas Crossing. Camp Grierson, home of galvanized Yankees and the Buffalo Soldiers, the Stone Corral Site and the Marker Cottonwood are also on the tour agenda. The tour will pass Jarvis (Chavez) Creek, where Jose Antonio Chavez was robbed and murdered by Missouri ruffians. A break will be taken at the museum in Lyons where tour participants can view a wagon box from the doomed Chavez wagon. Visit Buffalo Bill's Well and the Cow Creek Crossing where Buffalo Bill Matthewson operated a trading post, and Ralph's Ruts, where deep swales from the wagon trains have been carefully preserved in the pasture owned by Ralph Hathaway. The tour will end at the Allison Peacock Trading Post on Walnut Creek.
September 27 – 30, 2007 – SFTA Symposium, Trinidad, Colorado. Symposium registration materials were sent out in the February 2007 Wagon Tracks.
October 6, 2007 – Car caravan tour to Lincoln County Kansas to visit various historical sites, including Pre-Columbian sites. For information, call 620-241-8719 or blcolle@swbell.net .
October 27, 2007 - Lyons, KS, Celebration Centre - 1:00p,m. Chapter meeting with SFTA VP John Atkinson presenting the SFTA Strategic Plan. Program at 2:00 p.m. Speaker: Dr. James L. Lieker, “The Army in 19th Century Kansas.” Sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council. For those who wish to celebrate Halloween, the group will meet in Ellinwood in the early evening, where Robert Yarmer will provide a tour of the Ellinwood Cemetery and the history of those buried there. For information, call 620-241-8719 or blcolle@swbell.net.
December 9, 2007 – 2:00p.m.Quivira Chapter Christmas party at the Pat and Maureen Hall home. 916 N. Dean Road, Hutchinson, KS. For information, call 620-241-8719 or blcolle@swbell.net.
January/February 2008 – (Date & Location to be announced) Tentative Speaker: Don Coldsmith, “A Circle of History” Discover Spanish explorers, famous outlaws, mountain men, Indians, and radical reformers that left their mark within 200 miles of Kansas, a state linked with a rich western past of frontier forts, pioneer trails, cattle towns, and Civil War battles. Sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council
Art Source: The painting featured at the top of this page was done by artist and SFTA member Doug Holdread. Visit Doug's Website
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