Upcoming Santa Fe Trail Symposiums & Rendezvous
Symposium 2011 – September 22 - 25, 2011, Dodge City, KS
“Forts Mann, Atkinson and Dodge: Halfway on the Santa Fe Trail”
is the theme for Symposium 2011 and will be held in Dodge City, KS, September 22 – 25.
The Dodge City/Fort Dodge/Cimarron Chapter of the Santa Fe Trail Association will serve as hosts to the 2011 Symposium. Featured topics will include military history, Indian tribes of the area, traders, freighters, the equipment they used, women who traveled the Trail and history of the Dodge City area.
Registration fees to attend the Symposium will be $50.00 for SFTA members and $75.00 for non-members for Full Registration and $30.00 for Single Day Registration. Student Registration is $20.00. Costs for meals and bus tour are additional.
The tentative schedule of events is as follows:
-- SYMPOSIUM 2011 Agenda --
Thursday, September 22
SFTA Board of Directors Meeting at The Dodge House, 2408 W. Wyatt Earp, Dodge City, KS. (open to the public) During the day, tour on your own local sites such as The Kansas Heritage Center, Boot Hill Museum, Home of Stone, Historic 1898 AT&SF Railroad Depot, the Trail of Fame, etc. The Opening Event will take place that evening at Fort Dodge, KS with a buffalo dinner prepared and served by an authentic Buffalo Hunters Camp and Program – “Libby Custer” – presented by Marla Matkin
Friday, September 23
Morning sessions will be held at the Magouirk Conference Center. Bus tours will leave around noon and will explore local Santa Fe Trail sites. Tours going west will include the Cimarron Route sites, where you will meet Jedediah Smith. Tours to the east will feature Fort Dodge, where you will meet cavalry troopers and hear about the arrival in 1867 of Major Henry Douglas and his wife, Isadore. Continuing to the east you will explore the Wet/Dry Routes of the Santa Fe Trail. The Friday evening event will take place at the Boot Hill Museum with a fantastic dinner and entertainment.
Saturday, September 24
Morning sessions will once again be held at the Magouirk Conference Center, followed by more bus tours of local Santa Fe Trail sites. A highlight of the bus tours will be the dedication of new interpretive markers placed at the Boot Hill Santa Fe Trail Rut site, west of Dodge City. The evening meal will be held at the Magourik Conference Center. This banquet will feature a celebration of the Santa Fe Trail Association’s 25th Anniversary, and an Awards ceremony.
Sunday, September 25
Breakfast and Fellowship on the Trail, held at the Boot Hill Rut Site west of Dodge City.
Rendezvous 2012 - September 21 – 25, 2012, Larned, KS
Symposium 2013 - Wagon Bed Springs Chapter, Ulysses, KS area.