Thursdays, Feb. 17-March 3, 3-4:30 p.m.

Post Civil War America was moving westward and forts sprang up across the West to facilitate expansion. On the frontline was Fort Wallace, established in 1865 to protect the traffic on the Smoky Hill Trail which led from Atchison to Denver. The post was literally in the middle of encroaching civilization and Plains Tribes who were resisting the onslaught. Legendary western personalities had ties to the fort including Capt. Myles W. Keogh, Medicine Bill Comstock, Companies of the Buffalo Soldiers, and Cheyenne leaders Roman Nose and Tall Bull. Join Garvey Texas Foundation Historian in Residence at the Fort Wallace Museum Deb Goodrich to learn the colorful history of this post.