A little over an hour and a half away, just down Highway 69, you'll find Fort Scott, Kansas. Once in competition with Kansas City to become the state's major railroad hub, Fort Scott got its start as a pioneer town. The town's namesake fort was established by General Winfield Scott in 1842 and served as an Army outpost on the iconic prairie grasses of the Osage Plain. In the 1850s, the fort saw action as Bleeding Kansas continued to ravage the region.