Filling stations, service stations, and garages.

Various scenes from one of Kansas early Cowtowns, including Old Cowtown Museum and more. Wichita was established as a trading post just off the Chisholm Trail in the 1860's, and was officially incorporated in 1870.

General Stores, country stores, and groceries.

Fort Larned, Kansas

About six miles west of Larned, Kansas the Fort Larned National Historic Site preserves the 1859 military post of Fort Larned. On October 22, 1859 Captain George H. Stewart, commanding Company K of the First United States Cavalry, was sent out with his company to establish a mail escort station on the line of the Santa Fe Trail. On October 22nd he selected a site on the…

Courthouses and town halls in cities and small towns alike can often be some of the most beautiful buildings.

**Americana - **From baseball to apple pie, Thanksgiving to cheeseburgers, Norman Rockwell paintings to a genre of American music having roots in early folk and country styles, Americana is all things American. More specifically, it is those values, traditions, cultures found within the melting pot of the United States.