GO TO NETSCAPE. Click on open and type http://history.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/research/sft/index.html

Click on CyberTrail. Click on Council Grove. Click on Chinn's history of Council Grove.

1. What was Council Grove's significance on the Sante Fe Trail?
2. Who met here?
3. When was the right of way obtained for the Trail and from who? Where?
4. Who established the first trading post in Council Grove? When?
5. Where does the name Kansas come from?
6. What was established in Council Grove in the 1850s? What supplies were offered here?
7. Click BACK. Look at some of the pictures. What are they of?
CLICK BACK until you reach Conestogas. Click on the conestoga wagon
8. How long was the wagon?
9. How much weight could it carry?
Click on Maps Click on Comprehensive Map
10. Print out a copy. Might not print exactly as on screen. Don't worry.
11. Looking at the map, what are some of the rivers pioneers had to cross on the trail?
Click on OPEN and type http://www.nps.gov/fola/oregon.htm

12. Where did this trail start out?
13. How long was it? Where did it end?
14. How many people used the trail between 1841-1867? What did they have to go through?
15. Where was a major stopping point for travelers? What was done here?
Click on Mormon Trail.
16. Where did this trail begin? Who led the first group in 1847?
17. How many used the trail? What river does the trail follow?
Click on NPS Home. Go to Ft. Laramie National Historical Site and click
18. When did this become a military post
19. What was it used for until 1890?
20. Go to In Depth.Click on Virtual Tour.
21. Explain what you found?
Click OPEN. Type http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Southpass.html

22. What was so special about South Pass?
23. How wide is this gap in the Rockies?
24. Click on Merrill Matters. What did he say
25. Go to Fantastic Facts. Click on Fun with Buffalo Dung. Explain what you found? Click on Merrill Matters. What did he say
Send all answers to dangood@gasou.edu
Due date is WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2003
Thanks.