• Natural Landscape

    A Window Into The Past

    TALLGRASS PRAIRIE NATIONAL PRESERVE –It seemed a move contrary to the national sentiment, heading east when most were looking west for prosperity, but for Stephen and Louisa Jones, leaving Colorado for the Flint Hills of Kansas cemented their legacy. “He was about 52 when they arrived, she was about 46. So right there, you are telling a different story than the little house/covered wagon kind of Overland Trail,” Eric Patterson told me as we roamed through the tallgrass on the Southwind Trail of Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. “This was like the next generation, kind of at the fulcrum, the tipping point between the open range, the ‘Wild West,’ which probably wasn’t…