We are staying at the White Cloud Casino in White Cloud Kansas. The RV lot is in the back of the parking lot with a view of a soybean field and lots of green grass. We have full hookups including sewer for only $5 a night. Once again we cranked both AC's since is HOT and humid. We came here to go to the low point of Nebraska which is where the Missouri River leaves Nebraska into Missouri. It is on the edge of a cornfield. John at the low point and me near the low point. The corn is huge already.
We drove from Kansas back into Missouri, through St Joseph, MO with the topless pancakes, over the Missouri River into Kansas on the Pony express bridge. It is named that because it is near where the stable at the end of the pony express route was. Hwy 36 from St Joseph to Marysville, Ks is on the pony express route and is called the Pony Express Hwy and the bridges are over the house of Johnny Fry who was the first pony express rider. We went to White Cloud because it is near the low point which is on the state line, White Cloud is home of the 4 state scenic lookout, and the Ma Hush-kah museum and on the glacial hills scenic byway. We are on the Iowa Indian Tribe reservation in Kansas. The state of Iowa is named after their trip. Kansas is also named after an Indian Tribe Kanza's. The US in all their wisdom moved the Iowa tribe to a reservation in Kansas and the Kanza tribe to a reservation in Oklahoma. Here are two signs also in their tribal language. I keep thinking this sign says leaving Kansas again because we have criss-crossed the border so many times in the last couple days. Miles and miles of cornfields.
This bear claw necklace is a symbol of power for the Iowa tribe. It has been passed down from father to son in the White Cloud family since the early 1800's. It represents the chiefs authority. It has just recently been returned to the tribe, and is made of prairie grizzly bear claws, another species that has been killed by the white man. The Missouri River is part of the Lewis and Clark Trail.The sunflower was in the ceiling of a kiosk of information of Kansas. And some mulberries, they grown on trees, but look like raspberries. When I was doing my photos I actually read the White Cloud sign that I snapped in passage and saw there was a 4 state scenic view point in White cloud so we went back to see it. Here is the viewing platform.
The view east of Missouri and Iowa and the view west of Kansas and Nebraska over the Missouri river.
Mainstreet of White Cloud. Most of the buildings are empty. The Ma Hush-Kah museum building was closed when we got there. John and I are standing on the historic marker on the border of Kansas and Nebraska and explains the 4oth parallel is marked by an iron obelisk on the hill placed in 1854. When they were surveying the Louisiana Purchase they used the 40th parallel as the baseline and a north south longitude which I don't remember for surveying the rest. The 40th parallel runs through Colorado in Boulder as Baseline Street.
We hiked up a nice trail with pipe handrails the whole way to the obelisk. The original one was red stone, but his cast iron one was placed in the early 1900. John with the Kansas and Nebraska sides and the other two have the date and the 40th parallel. The sun turned bright red and huge at sunset from camp. We could only see it through the trees but is was stunning.
Road scene driving through south east Nebraska. Downtown Beatrice, Nebraska.
Outside of Beatrice is the Homestead National Monument of America. It tells of the lives of the homesteaders and the Indians who used to live on the land. The building is built to look like a plow. A wall of ads and flyers proclaiming free land to anyone who will homestead it.
Some quotes from the museum. Manifest Destiny, get rid of the indians and 'rain follows the plow. The depressing part was the Indians. They believed that they did not own the land, they were stewards to protect it. Then along came the white man and they told them they owned the land and the Indians had to leave, then they ruined the land. An original homestead log cabin. A family of 12 lived in it.
Part of beautiful historic downtown Sutton, Nebraska. We are parked tonight at Crystal Lake Recreation area. The lake is closed they are renovating it. But we have a great site with green grass, lots of shade trees and 50 amp power. Hardly anyone is here so it is dark and quiet.
The basket is coming along. I am working on a lid for it. I have not finished the bottom yet, you are supposed to make the lid first, then fit the basket to it. Nebraska highway signs have this covered wagon on it. I am not sure if they all have it or just the ones on the Oregon Trail. These bright pink poppy like flowers are blooming in the lawn here. A really weird looking cell tower along the way.
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