The Santa Fe Trail had US military posts from Fort Leavenworth to I guess Santa Fe. What makes Fort Larned unique is that much of it survived and the National Park Service has restored a good portion of it. Two things contributed to its survival, stone construction and being adjacent to the middle of nowhere. It follows the usual pattern of a square enclosed by officer's quarters, barracks, shops, and storehouses. Life at the post was also the usual pattern, the boring day to day existence of the 19th Century army bringing safety to Kansas and preparing the way for Dorothy and Toto.
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Officers Row
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Barracks
 The Shops
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The post was closed in 1878 so I don't if GWG was a military graffiti artist or just one of the first civilians to leave their "mark" in one of the walls and hundreds have followed his or her example. It is a shame that people need to insure immortality in this way. But then if Facebook did not exist we would have had to invent it.
As with most military posts there are chiseled stones but the names had to be added by others.
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