This national park came as a complete surprise. I didn't have a strong sense of how much of the United States has been homesteaded and its impact on our history and culture.
The Marshall County Courthouse caught my eye as I was walking around town. It was an eye-opening experience to go into my first small-town museum and learn about local history.
There is only one barn remaining from the famous Pony Express, and it's right here in Marysville, Kansas, so there was no way I would miss this fabulous attraction from the Wild West.
A few miles north of Strong City, Kansas is the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. The barn was the biggest limestone barn in Kansas in 1878 on the Spring Hill Farm.