TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Council Grove is gearing up to host more than a week of events commemorating the history of the Santa Fe Trail. Sydney Pursel and Jan Huston stopped by Eye on Northeast Kansas to ...

An advertisement for the St. Louis, Kansas City, and Northern shortline railroad from 1873 features their service to all points west and promises safe and comfortable travel for women. Women’s stories ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Kansas offered a direct path west as our nation was formed. One route was the Santa Fe Trail. An upcoming symposium in Council Grove recounts that history. Mark Brooks, site ...

Marla Matkin admires the adventurous spirit and wanderlust that sparked Marion Sloan Russell to travel the Santa Fe Trail five times, starting when she was just 7. “She said she would rather be in a ...

When I set out across Kansas, I expected prairies and wide horizons, but what I found was a state layered with stories. It’s a place where Native American heritage, pioneer grit, cowboy legends, and ...