Off the Beaten Path

The Walker family were one of the few families who didn't stop in Franklin to build a family home, but continued another 20 miles further west making their own wagon tracks through the prairie.  They found the Osage Trace Trail  which ran parallel to the river in the south.  With prairie cleanings, large walnut and oak trees,  persimmons and honeybees growing along the creek, the Walkers found their new family settlement.

Trivia:  Indians called the "Honeybee" the white man's fly.

The Walkers settled on the land near Fort Osage where the land was rich in black bear, deer and elk, and just as their grandparents had many years before in the Appalachian Valley, they became the most western permanent settlers in the United States, 30 miles south of present day Kansas City,  20 years before it even existed.

Next time - road bump