Tour Overview
Welcome to the Frontier Army Museum audio tour. To begin select "Begin Tour" and choose a stop from the site list to hear more about that topic.
Funding for the audio tour and artifact purchases are possible by donations received from museum visitors. Please place your donations in the potbelly stove, thank you for your support.
Instructions:
Before beginning the audio tour, the museum staff asks that you follow these guidelines:
- Do not touch or climb on any artifacts or platforms. Please do not sit on anything other than the benches in the museum galleries.
- Please feel free to take photographs, but no flash photography. The flash is damaging to textiles and other artifacts.
- An adult must accompany children under the age of sixteen.No food or drink allowed in the galleries.
Stops
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Stop 1: 1. Welcome and Instructions
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Stop 2: 2. History of the Frontier Army Museum
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Stop 3: 3. The Founding of Fort Leavenworth
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Stop 4: 4. First Days at Cantonment Leavenworth
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Stop 5: 5. Fort Leavenworth Murals
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Stop 6: 6. Portrait of Henry Leavenworth
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Stop 7: 7. Henry Leavenworth
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Stop 8: 8. Harriet Lovejoy Leavenworth
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Stop 9: 9. Leavenworth Prisons
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Stop 10: 10. History of Fort de Cavagnial
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Stop 11: 11. Post Megaphone
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Stop 12: 12. History of the Bugle Call
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Stop 13: 13. Fort Leavenworth Cemeteries
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Stop 15: 15. The "Western Engineer"
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Stop 16: 16. Percival Lowe's Long March
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Stop 17: 17. Santa Fe Trail
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Stop 18: 18. History of the Oregon Trail
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Stop 19: 19. Travel on the Oregon Trail
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Stop 20: 20. Battle of El Brazito
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Stop 21: 21. Buffalo Soldiers
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Stop 22: 22. Indian Scouts
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Stop 23: 23. Sheridan's Winter Campaign
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Stop 24: 24. Buffalo Coats
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Stop 25: 25. The Nez Perce at Leavenworth
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Stop 27: 27. A Soldiers Life
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Stop 28: 28. Frontier Army Wives
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Stop 29: 29. The Jenny
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Stop 30: 30. Lincolns Visit to Kansas
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Stop 31: 31. Fort Leavenworth Hunt Club
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Stop 32: 32. Frontier Winters
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Stop 33: 33. Holidays on the Frontier
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