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Day 1
1. Imagine it is May 1804. You are a member of Lewis and Clark's exedition on your way west. Will you be traveling upstream against the Missouri River current, or going downstream with the current?
Lewis and Clark expedition traveled upstream on the Missouri River
2. With the offer of a Spanish land grant, 64-year old Daniel Boone moved from Kentucky to Missouri in 1799. He died in 1820 and was buried near Marthasville, but his remains were taken back to Kentucky in 1945-- through Missourians and Kentuckians still debate this fact. How many standing gravestones are at the Daniel Boone grave monument? (you'll have to leave the trail to answer this question.)
14 standing gravestones (16 acceptable)
3. Name one of the two towns on today's segment of the trail that were named after the wives of their founders.
Augusta or Marthasville
Day 2
1. Early Hermann settlers first arrived in the 1830s as part of a large wave of immigration to this region of Missouri. In the 1840s, some planted vineyards to make wine. From which country did most Hermann settlers emigrate?
Germany
2. Katy Trail State Park used to go through the middle of the town of Rhineland until about 1993. Where is the town located today? Why did it move?
Moved to higher ground after Flood of 1993
3. At mile marker 120.4, there is a large, isolated piece of the bluff standing at the right edge of the trail. List three dates that appear on the rock. What is the significance of the dates?
1903, 1912, 1923, 1935, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1993; dates indicate water levels during these flood years.
4. The fertile soil of the Missouri River bottomland is good for farming. Name one of the two major crops growing between Katy Trail State Park and the river.
corn and soybeans (wheat acceptable)
Day 3
1. What kind of festival is held every October in Hartsburg?
Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival
2. On which date did the Lewis and Clark expedition camp in the vicinity of mile marker 173, about a mile past what is now Huntsdale?
June 6, 1804
3a. When you reach Lewis and Clark Cave (shortly after mile marker 174), stand in front of the entrance. An endangered animal uses the cave in summer as a “bachelor colony.” Which animal?
Endangered gray bats live in Lewis and Clark cave
3b. Look up and to the left of the cave entrance. On the bluff face, look for a pictograph (rock drawing) several hundred years old. Draw the shape of the pictograph.
Refer to pictograph on next page
4. Early Missouri River travelers described pictographs drawn on the bluff near Rocheport that included the representation of a spirit. What is the name of that spirit, the line of bluffs along the Missouri River between Huntsdale and Rocheport and (with a slight variation) the name of the creek leading up to Rocheport?
Manitou or Moniteau or Monetou (Clark's Spelling)
Day 4
1. A Katy caboose, in service from 1968 to 1998, can be found in front of the Boonville depot along the trail. Cabooses were home to the conductor and rear breakman, but new technology has made those duties obsolete. What is the number of Boonville’s Katy caboose?
Katy Caboose #134
2. Before you dash past mile marker 206 and 207, look for especially good evidence along the trail of an early long-distance communications system. You may have observed this evidence on other days of the ride… Using Samuel Morse’s invention—and built in the 1870s—what system was built along the Katy railroad line?
Telegraph
3. Katy depots survive in St. Charles, Marthasville, Franklin, Boonville and Sedalia. As the division headquarters of the M-K-T Railway Co., the Sedalia depot was the grandest. Repair shops and the company hospital were also located here. In what year did the Sedalia depot open?
Sedalia depot built in 1896
Day 5
1. What famous ragtime musician lived in Sedalia on and off the 1890s, attended the George R. Smith College for Negroes, and played in clubs such as the Maple Leaf and Black 400, before moving to St. Louis in 1901?
Scott Joplin
2. The 11-day-long Missouri State Fair, one of the nation’s largest, celebrates which anniversary this year?
100th anniversary of the Missouri State Fair
3. Most of the streets in Windsor run neither north-south or east-west, but at a 45-degree angle. Why?
Windsor, it's believed, was laid out along the northeast-to-southwest-slanting Osage Trace (an Indian Trail), now Main St./ Highway 52
4. At mile marker 257.8, you may have a chance to see the largest land animal in North America. Standing up to 6 feet tall and weighing more than 1,000 pounds, it thrived on the grasslands of the plains and prairie. Various body parts were used by Indian tribes as food, tools, shelter, weapons and clothing, and the chips made reliable and portable fuel. What is the animal?
bison
