Kansas
Great Bend Arkansas River and Santa Fe Trail crossing
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: cartridge cases, buffalo-hide trade small finds.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Arkansas River at the great northern bend
Named for the great bend of the Arkansas and tied to the Santa Fe Trail and nearby Fort Zarah; the 1884 Sanborn frames the early townsite by the river.
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