This guidebook addresses all those wishing to experience the near west as it was. The twenty-two sites, throughout the Plain states of Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas, and the Southwestern states of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, depict the history of the region in all its variety: frontier forts built to keep out British traders, the coming of the railroad, the Indian wars, and the ceaseless trek of the indomitable pioneers...The spirit of the West rides on!