As summer winds down and school looms around the corner, a quick little jaunt into Cherokee County may be the perfect daytrip, especially for area history buffs. Baxter Springs is a quiet little town today, but it has played a significant role in Kansas history for more than two centuries. After the Osage were driven from the Ohio River Valley by the Iroquois in the mid-1600s, they moved west into Kansas. Adopting traditions common to Plains tribes, by the 1750s, the Osage became the dominant nation in eastern Kansas, Oklahoma, and western Missouri.
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