Jerry Thomas is a hometown graduate. Very well known for his wildlife paintings, and his series featuring military posts of Kansas and sports paintings.
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El Quartelejo Pueblo Ruins
See the northernmost pueblo in the United States and one of the first white settlements in Kansas: El Quartelejo Ruins. In the 1500s a group of Taos Indians migrated to the park region. They made pueblos and grew crops using irrigation ditches dug from a nearby spring. After 20
Scott City, KS ArchaeologyCattle Feeding Industry
See the multi-million dollar cattle feeding industry in action. Visit a feedlot and see how modern equipment and management work hand-in-hand to produce food for a nation. Scott County ranks #1 in cattle feeding counties in Kansas.
Scott City, KS AgricultureKeystone Gallery
The Keystone Gallery is housed in the historic limestone building built in 1917 as a community church. It houses a prehistoric museum with late Cretaceous fossils from the Kansas Niobrara formation, a curio shop, featured artwork by Charles Bonner, and information about Monument Rocks.
Scott City, KS MuseumsSquaw's Den Cave, The Last Indian Battle in Kansas
Travel to the place where the last Indian battle in Kansas took place. Punished Woman Fork is about a mile southeast of Lake Scott State Park. It is marked by a monument over a cave known as Squaw's Den where Indian women and children hid while warriors waited in ambush for the US Calvary.
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Middle Springs
A short distance east of Point of Rocks is Middle Springs, a small oasis on the prairie where water rises from an ever-flowin...