Samuel Hunt Grave
From Dacotah, 4¾ miles west on Santa Fe (becomes K-31) (north side of the highway maintenance pullout). Surrounded by a pipe fence, a weathered head-stone marks the earliest known grave of a soldier on the Santa Fe Trail. Samuel Hunt, a private in the U.S. Dragoons, was on Colonel Henry Dodge’s Rocky Mountain expedition in 1835 when he died of “inflammation of the bowels” during the regiment’s return to Fort Leavenworth. (NRHP)