After a late afternoon visit to the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument and a night in Kearney (the town is spelled differently from the park) we headed west on the old Lincoln Highway toward ...

The Great Platte River Road, along the valley’s 310-mile river, guided fortune-seekers as they traveled to the California gold fields, Mormons in search of the promised land and the Pony Express ...

Central to this migratory route is the Overland Trail, which paralleled the other emigrant trails on the Great Platte River Road along the North Platte River in Kansas and Nebraska. At Julesburg ...