An Introduction

Welcome to the Prairie Trails Journal.

My interest in the central Great Plains region began about twenty years ago while on a drive from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Denver, Colorado with a co-worker. As we crossed the Oklahoma panhandle (No Man's Land) my friend told me stories of his great-grandfather who had been a scout and interpreter in the old west.

Edmund Guerrier had spent his life on the plains, travelling the Santa Fe Trail to Bent's Fort in southeastern Colorado. He eventually settled down on the Cheyenne Arapaho reservation in northwest Oklahoma. The town of Geary, Oklahoma is named for him.

So I continue to seek information about the life and times of Edmund Guerrier, about the people and events on those dusty trails of western Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, No Man's Land, western Kansas, eastern Colorado, and Nebraska.