The Rose–Baley Party was the first European American emigrant wagon train to traverse the 35th parallel route known as Beale's Wagon Road, established by Edward Fitzgerald Beale, from Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico to the Colorado River near present-day Needles, California.
E.F. Beale
A "prairie schooner" covered wagon, 1909
A classic image of the American cowboy, as portrayed by C.M. Russell
El Morro in 1873
Keosauqua is a city in Van Buren County, Iowa, United States. The population was 936 at the time of the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Van Buren County.
Keosauqua welcome sign
Van Buren County courthouse in Keosauqua. The building, the oldest courthouse in the state, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Historic Hotel Manning, built in the 1890s.
Closeup of Hotel Manning, showing the "steamboat style" design.