You might be interested to know that located 6 miles west of modern day Larned, Fort Larned was established in 1859 near the midpoint of the Santa Fe Trail to protect mail coaches and freight caravans. You will find here today, as a unit of the National Park Service, it is the best preserved Indian Wars military post on the Santa Fe Trail along with the promptbuscharters.com
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