Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas 1999

Civil War on the Frontier – Fort Scott, Kansas

Elton and Greg at Fort Scott KS Fort Scott Kansas, home to the 2nd Kansas Battery of Light Artillery We travelled the road along the Kansas side of the Kansas/Missouri border.  We visited Baxter Springs and Fort Scott.

Jasper County Missouri

Jasper County was where Jarrett Foster and his family settled when they came to MO.  It is one county west of Lawrence Co. where Frederick and his family settled.  It is bordered on the west by Kansas.  These western MO counties were the scene of plenty of guerilla violence and intimidation during Bleeding Kansas and […]

Lawrence County Missouri

Lawrence Co. MO was home tto Fredrick Foster and his family when they settled in MO.  Brother Jarrett settled one county further west, Jasper Co.  These were both well populated with southern famillies and were infact part of the state that seperated from the official government and sesseeded from the union.  The southern counties of […]


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