Sounding the Call (Fort Harker)

Buffalo Soldiers of Co. K, 10th U.S. Cavalry stand at attention as the bugler sounds the call.  Fort Harker was established in 1866 to safeguard passage across western Kansas.  At the juncture of the Fort Riley-Fort Larned Road and the Smoky Hill Trail, the post was strategically located to provide a vital link in supplying military operations and counter Indian resistance to wagon trains, stagecoaches, and the railroad as they intruded native lands and changed the West forever.