A must see in Kansas. The original visitors center was a cigar box under a shade tree, but today an attractive building houses a museum with information on the mining days in southeast Kansas. A recent addition has doubled the size of the museum. Way out west, August 17-26 synopsis . Portraits and information on major party candidates who lost in presidential elections.
Sod house is pretty interesting.
Rock, A sudden rain shower forced me to seek shelter in a nearby abandoned farmhouse. Modest by any standard, the old tar paper shack only had three small rooms. But an over-grown flower garden is evidence that a family once lived here. Buffalo Bill claimed to have held off a small group of attacking Indians at elephant rock. There's a clear view of all approaches, so perhaps this is fact rather than fiction.