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Sod and Stubble is a classic Kansas novel that is being turned into a movie and filmed in Kansas.

The Contested Plains follows the story of the German family who were attacked in the western plains of Kansas in 1874. KMUW's Torin Andersen spoke with one of the films writers.

Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal PUERTOCITO DE LA PIEDRA LUMBRE – That’s a lot of name for a next-to-nothing place on N.M. 283 just west of I-25 and south of Las Vegas. But according to the historical markers here, there’s more to it than is apparent. This is where the storied Santa Fe Trail, a major commercial road running about 900 miles from Missouri to New Mexico, was born nearly 200 years ago. Visitors to Fort Union National Monument, near Watrous, see the remnants of fort walls...

On the Santa Fe Trail: 1821-2021 The bicentennial of the National Historic Trail is a great reason to hit the road and rediscover why it is the West’s original “Mother Road.” When you get right down to it, almost every trail ever blazed was for profit. Despite all the glory associated with them, the lure of money was behind the Chisholm Trail (first for trade goods, then for selling longhorns in Kansas)and the California and Klondike trails (to find goldfields) and the like. The Santa Fe ...

Segment 2, beginning at 30:02: Kamala Harris will become the second vice president of color in January following in the footsteps of a Native American nearly 100 years ago. Charles Curtis became vice president to Herbert Hoover in 1929. A member of the Kaw nation, Curtis held elected office for twenty years prior to his vice presidency, including as a U.S. Senator from Kansas. Deb Goodrich, Garvey Foundation historian in residence, Ft. Wallace Museum Segment 3, beginning at 43:50: Jackson Cou...