oklahoma and kansas
You pass through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. If you want to travel by Interstate, you would pass through North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
The most direct route would be through Missouri. You could cut north to Nebraska and go east through Iowa if you were going from western Kansas to northern Illinois.
The Lewis and Clark expedition followed the Missouri river westward, through what is now Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. This expedition began on May 14, 1804.
Wichita is located in Kansas. roughly in the south-eastern portion of the state. Kansas itself is located south of Nebraska, in the United States' midwestern region.
You would probably travel through South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas before entering Oklahoma. However, if you want to travel by Interstate, you would travel through South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas before entering Oklahoma.
You would travel northwest to get to Nebraska from Florida.
It is most likely that you would travel through New Mexico or Oklahoma.
When the first transcontinental railroad was authorized in the early 1860s (during the civil war), the eastern terminus was fixed at Council Bluffs, Iowa/Omaha, Nebraska, a point served by several railroads at the time. Fixing the eastern terminus further east would have placed the new railroad in competition with existing lines and lengthened the length of the route to be built. Also, the transcontinental railroad was partly funded by land grants authorized by the federal government in the territories the railroad crossed; offering such land grants east of Nebraska would have been more costly and problematic.
It wasn't an actual railroad, so it wasn't built anywhere. It was a system of safe-houses that enabled slaves to travel through the North and escape into Canada.
Sometimes. Some railroads issue retiree passes that allow free travel only on the railroad the employee worked on.
No, it is a federal crime. You are crossing state lines with a handgun.