Missouri River Outfitters (SFTA Chapter)

The mission of the Santa Fe Trail Association is to protect and preserve the Santa Fe Trail and to promote awareness of the historical legacy associated with it. The Santa Fe Trail Association’s purposes are exclusively charitable and educational within the meaning of Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

https://www.santafetrail.org/about-us/mission-goals/

 

  • 3/26/16 Annual Membership Meeting of the Missouri River
    Outfitters Chapter of the Santa Fe Trail Association at Lou Austin’s 
    Schumacher Station on 5912 E. Bannister Road.  Chapter President
    Larry Short (now SFTA President) addresses the crowd of 
    about 30 people.
  • Missouri River Outfitters Annual Membership Meeting at 
    Trailside Center, (99th & Holmes) on April 30, 2017.  The 
    speaker was Craig Voorhees from Lawrence on the routes 
    followed by Army units as they moved to and from Fort
    Leavenworth in the 1840s and also the 1846 route followed
    by Alexander Doniphan’s Army unit from Fort Leavenworth
    on the way to the Mexican War in the summer of 1846.
  • After the 3/26/16 meeting, we walked over in the rain to the
    newly installed Powder Mill Bridge over I-435 adjacent to 
    the Bannister Road bridge.  It is the longest pedestrian bridge
    over an Interstate Highway on a National Historic trail in the nation.
    It was dedicated on June 9 as a part of the Partnership of the 
    National Trails System annual Historic Trails Workshop 
    held in Independence.
  • Dedication of markers at Wieduwilt Park at 85th and Manchester, 
    KCMO on October 4, 2014.  Sponsored by Missouri River
    Outfitters Chapter of SFTA, it was attended by about 30 people.
    Speaking is Larry Short, MRO president. 
    Dedicated was a Wieduwilt Park site sign, a wayside exhibit 
    and a limestone post with a small info plate on it.
    The site has a very visible swale going right through it, 
    which carried Santa Fe, Oregon and California Trail wagon 
    traffic on the Independence Route.
  • December 2, 2016 dedication of the new markers at Salem 
    Park at Highway 24 and Blue Mills Road in Independence.
    Three upright kiosks display the history of the Santa Fe Trail
    which passes by the location.  In addition, the site was completely
    redesigned and repaved. 
    This was a joint project by Missouri River Outfitters Chapter, 
    National Park Service and Jackson County Parks and Recreation.