Ten years later, at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the 7th Cavalry was virtually wiped out. The only Cavalry survivor was a horse named Comanche. The horse was returned to Fort Riley, where he lived for years and was never ridden again. When Comanche died in the 1890s, he was preserved through taxidermy and now stands in a permanent display at the Museum of Natural History on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence. The U.S. Cavalry museum at Fort Riley recounts the history of mounted soldiers from 1875 to 1950.
D ining There are a number of historic restaurants throughout Kansas.
The oldest continuously operating restaurant west of the Mississippi is the Hays House in Council Grove, operating since 1857. E thnicity Most of Kansas' immigrants came from other states rather than other countries. In the 1870 census, fewer than 14 percent of Kansans were foreign-born, which represents the largest proportion of any census. Most of those immigrants were from Britain, settling principally in Wakefield, Victoria, and the now ghost town of Runnymede. Many Irish found their way to areas around Chapman and Seneca.