June 7, 2018 Joplin, Mo and Coffeyville, Kansas

Cloudy, rainy and hot still.

We drove into Kansas and went to the low point. John  at the low point where the Verdigris river leaves Kansas into Oklahoma. I stayed up on the bridge above and took John's photo.  We drove to Kansas, then back to Missouri, the safe from the First Bank from the robbery in Coffeyville, Ks, downtown mall in Coffeyville has the parole office and the Christian Karate Academy,  we went to the Dalton Museum. The Dalton gang attempted to rob 2 banks at once in Coffeyville and the citizens in town had a shoot out with them and saved the money and the town and killed the Daltons. Chicks Pool Hall and darn, we are missing the revival this weekend. 

Bones on the bridge above the low point, flowers by the bridge by the low point, reward poster for the Dalton Gang and a memorial in the sidewalk where one of the citizens defending town died. Downtown historic Coffeyville, Ks and a mural with a map of the historic places of the robbery. 

Also at the Dalton museum was a display about Walter Johnson a famous hometown baseball player, an ad for a campsite I wouldn't mind staying in and a collection of historic bricks made from the 5 brick making plants in town. Another mural on the sidewalk of a photo of 4 of the outlaw's bodies laid out. John in the teller window of one of the restored banks that was robbed that day. 

Historic Death Alley is where the outlaws tied up their horses and 3 of them were killed. They painted the outlines of their bodies on the street in the alley. The restored jail where they laid the bodies out and the exhibit in the jail of the bodies.

 Sunset at the RV park.  We are staying at the RV park at the Downstream Casino on the Quapaw Reservation. The front with a teepee in front, the lobby and the sign for the casino. 

The current masterpiece next to a finished on similar to what it will come out looking like. I am healing nicely. Here is John stepping into the bus where I fell out of. The two black steps under him are broken and do not come out. I had stepped out thinking the steps were out and dropped onto the step and fell forward and got beat up. It is a miracle I have never broken anything in all the falls I make. Bruised foot, huge bruise on my thigh and my elbow. Much better than they were already.

Kansas is Nado country, part of Route 66 goes through Kansas, we saw this scissor tail bird at the RV park and a campaign poster on the reservation.