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Amelia
Earhart Birthplace Museum
223 N. Terrace, Atchison, KS 66002
913-367-4217
The
world’s most famous female aviator was born here, in a bedroom
overlooking the Missouri River, in 1897. Today the house combines
period furnishings, Earhart memorabilia and belongings, and exhibits
on the careers of Earhart and other early women flyers.
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Joslyn
Art Museum
2200 Dodge, Omaha, NE 68102
402-342-3300
Lewis
and Clark buffs flock to view paintings by George Catlin, who
traveled far up the Missouri only 17 years after the expedition
returned. He painted some Indians the captains had met. Works
by Karl Bodmer, who toured the upper Missouri in 1833, are on
exhibit, along with impressionist and 20th-century American art.
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Patee
House Museum
12th and Penn, St. Joseph, MO
800-530-5930
Patee
House once was a luxury hotel that housed Pony Express offices.
Museum grounds include Jesse James Home where the outlaw
was killed in 1882 by one of his own gang.
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Pony
Express Museum - A National Memorial
914 Penn St., St. Joseph, MO 64503
800-530-5930
This
museum is in the stables from which the first Pony Express rider
left in 1860. The mailbag he carried would pass from rider to
rider for 1,900 miles overland, arriving in Sacramento, California,
in only 10 days.
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Western
Historic Trails Center
From I-80/29 exit 1B, 3434 Downing Ave., Council Bluffs, IA 51501
712-366-4900
Multimedia
exhibits on the Lewis and Clark, Mormon, Oregon, and California
trails.
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