Accross the street from theBingham is the National Frontier Trails Museum . I was a tour guide and Education coordinator here for several years, this is where my blog and email name of "trailteach"comes from. Independence was the jumping off point for caravans of trade goods to Santa Fe beginning in 1827 and later of pioneers headed to Oregon and California. Talking about these people, how they lived and what they did is something I enjoy so much I'm afraid I might become boring. I 'll try to hold myself back!