2021 SANTA FE TRAIL
EVENTS TIMELINE
JANUARY 2021
Jan. 1 to Mar. 31 - Quivira Chapter Photo Contest
30 - SFT Film - Dave Kendall “The Making of the SFT Documentary"
2:00 p.m. ZOOM Program - Information for ZOOM posted 3
days prior to the program.
FEBRUARY 2021
9
Feb. 2021 and On - Quivira Chapter Santa Fe Trail Passport and
Site Book. Pick up the Passport Book at your
local museum or print one online. Visit the Santa
Fe Trail historic sites in the Chapter and collect
all the stamps!
Feb. to Dec. - Buffalo Soldier Exhibit - Coronado Quivira Museum,
105 W. Lyon, Lyons, KS. Tuesday - Friday, 10:00 am -
4:00 pm, Saturday 10:00 am - 1:00 pm. Closed Sunday
and Monday.
9 - Pauline Sharp as Chief Lucy – 7:00 pm. ZOOM Program -
Information for ZOOM posted 3 days prior to the program.
Lucy Tayiah Eads was the adopted daughter of Chief Wah-Shun-
Gah, Principal Chief of the Kanza Tribe. Lucy was elected the first
woman Chief of the Kaw KAW Treaty site
MARCH 2021
1 - 5 - Read Across the Santa Fe Trail
To Coincide with Read Across America. For Kids & Adults
Libraries and schools. Visit the public libraries in McPherson,
Rice, and Barton Counties.
APRIL 2021
17 - Jay Clark - "Buffalo Soldiers Protecting the Santa Fe Trail" - 2:00
pm. Barton County Historical Museum, 85 US 281, Great Bend
27 - POSTPONED - Stay tuned for future announcement. Inman
Museum Annual Meeting - Deb Goodrich speaking on the Santa
Fe Trail - 7:00 pm. Inman Community Center, 406 E. Center
Street, Inman, KS
MAY 2021
1- Pots & Petals - Sterling SFT Theme - 9:00 am - 1:00 pm.
Downtown Sterling, KS
14 - Ft. Riley Mounted Color Guard Encampment and Drills 1:00 pm
at the McPherson Saddle Club Arena located at the intersection
of First Street and Hickory Street, McPherson, KS
JUNE 2021
3 - Main Street Sterling Summer Concert Series - Jeff Davidson's
musical history of the Santa Fe Trail takes audiences over 800
miles from Missouri to Santa Fe. 8:00 pm. Studio 96, 121 S.
Broadway, Sterling, KS
4 - An Evening on the Old Salt Road - 5:30 pm - Geneseo City
Museum, 907 Silber Ave., Geneseo, KS
Jim Gray Commemorates the trail that connected the Smoky
Hill Trail to Cow Creek Crossing on the Santa Fe Trail. History
of the trail that passed by the location of present-day
Geneseo. Reenactors representing the hunting camp of
Smoky Hill Thompson, a local frontiersman. Kansas frontier
music by Zerf (Dave Zerfas). Camp stew and biscuits feed.
7 -11 - Barton County Ride into History Camp - Learn to be a
Historical Performer - 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Monday to Friday.
Friday evening program open to the public. Barton County
Historical Museum, 85 U.S. 281, Great Bend, KS.
14 - 18 - Rice County Ride into History Camp - Learn to be a
Historical Performer - 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Monday to Friday.
Friday evening program open to the public. K-State
Research and Extension, 701 E. Main, Lyons, KS
21 - 25 - McPherson County Ride into History Camp - Learn to be a
Historical Performer - 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Monday to Friday.
Friday evening program open to the public. McPherson
Museum, 1111 E. Kansas Ave., McPherson, KS
26 - Mountain Men on the Trail - Mountain Man Camp - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm.
Ice Cream Social - 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm.
Tom Nestor - History of the early fur trade from the Arkansas River trade to the Rocky Mountain trade - 2:00 pm.
Old Mill Museum, 120 E. Mill Street, Lindsborg, KS
Speaker, Tom Nestor -History of the early fur trade from the
Arkansas River trade to the Rocky Mountain trade. Discussion
of the traders out of St. Joseph and St. Louis. Joseph
Rubidoux and Andrew Henry and William Ashley. Importance
of the traders in the opening of the west. The Ashley/ Henry
men as well as hands on beaver traps and weapons of the
trade along with gear that would have been available to
mountaineers of the 1820s
JULY 2021
3 - Sterling Kansas American Legion Parade – 200 Years on the Santa
Fe Trail - 2:00 pm. Going South on Broadway from Washington
Street to Garfield Street, Sterling, KS
10 - 14 - Rice County 4-H Fair - Santa Fe Trail Theme, Celebration
Centre, 1108 US Hwy 56, Lyons, KS
17 - Ellinwood's 48th After Harvest Festival and Santa Fe Trail
themed Parade
18 - 31 - Story Walk - Lewis and Papa - Story walk will be 24/7 for two
weeks - Moundridge Public Library, 220 S. Christian Ave.,
Moundridge, KS
19 - Adult Book Club - Land of Enchantment: Memoirs of Marian
Russell Along the Santa Fe Trail - 6:30 pm - Moundridge Public
Library, 220 S. Christian Ave., Moundridge, KS
22 - Junior Book Club - All the Stars in the Sky - 10:00 am -
Moundridge Public Library, 220 S. Christian Ave., Moundridge
23 - 24 - Eastern McPherson County & Marion County Santa Fe Trail
Days
23 - Speaker Leo Oliva - What Did They Eat On The Trail? - 7:00 pm
Appetizers, cocktails, & Dinner - 6:00 pm - McPherson Museum,
1111 E. Kansas Ave., McPherson, KS
24 - Tom Nestor and his teepee cooking up traditional foods
10:00 am - Noon - 56 Family Restaurant, 220 US Hwy 56, Galva
24 - Barb Bland's mural of the trail's relationship to Galva, Inside the
56 Family Restaurant, 220 US Hwy 56, Galva2
24 - Events at Running Turkey Creek - a campsite on the Santa Fe
Trail - 9:00 am - 4:00 pm - 1 mile east and 2 miles south of Galva,
KS on 22nd Avenue, just before Iron Horse Road
Cheyenne Encampment - Kevin Hiebert
Military Infantry Escort Camp - Rex and Dustin Abrahams
Woman on the Santa Fe Trail - Emma Perera
Cherokee Trail Connection to the Santa Fe Trail - Brian Stucky
Empire Cemetery - Early day settlers of Empire & Galva, KS
24 - Reenactment at Jones Cemetery - Ed Miller's Grave 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm - 2 miles east of Canton, KS on Hwy 56 and approx 1 mile north
24 - French Franks' Ranche - Walking Tours - 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm
Marion County, on 245th Road, approx 1/4 mile west of Chisholm Trail Road
24 - McPherson County Fair Parade - 6:00 pm - Downtown Canton, KS
AUGUST 2021
7 - Little Arkansas Rendezvous - Experience life on the Santa Fe Trail!
10:00 am - 4:00 pm - 5 miles south of Hwy 56 on Plum St./31st
Road (on the Rice/McPherson County line) and 3/4 mile west on
Avenue P.
Camp Grierson
Stone Corral
Swanson’s Swales
Fry Ruts
28 - Empire Days – Infantry Soldier of the 1860's - Rex Abrahams -
1:00 pm - Galva Fire Station, 300 S. Main, Galva, KS
SEPTEMBER 2021
25 -26 - Fair on the Square - Courthouse Square -9:00 am - 4:00 pm -
Lyons, KS
OCTOBER 2021
2 - 3 - Mountain Man Rendezvous - Daily - Maxwell Wildlife Refuge,
2565 Pueblo Road, Canton, KS
17 - Tales from the Trail and the Beyond - Robert Yarmer - 2:00 pm
Ellinwood Senior Center, 103 N. Main, Ellinwood, KS
NOVEMBER 2021
13 - On the Trail to Your Ancestors! Learn how to research your
ancestors that traveled on the Santa Fe Trail - 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Old Mill Museum, 120 E. Mill Street, Lindsborg, KS
DECEMBER 2021
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