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Originally located at Rd. Y, 0.5 miles west of intersection with U.S. Highway 283, 2 miles north of K-9 and 6 miles northeast of Lenora 5: West Sappa Creek Lattice: January 4, 1990 : Northwest of Norton over West Sappa Creek
The establishment provided gambling and live entertainment, including Beeson's five-person orchestra. It was the scene of several altercations, shoot-outs, gunfights, and standoffs often associated with cattle towns in the American wild west. Most famous was the 1879 Long Branch Saloon Gunfight, in which Frank Loving killed Levi Richardson.
He was given a life sentence in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas, of which he served 14 years before being pardoned by Governor Ed Hoch in 1907. [ 12 ] [ clarification needed ] He moved to Hollywood, California , and became a real estate agent, author, and actor, and died in 1937 at age 66. [ 12 ]
3. Bandera, Texas. Nicknamed the "Cowboy Capital of the World," this Wild West town in southern Texas was a staging ground for the last cattle drives of the 1800s.
Fort Hays, originally named Fort Fletcher, was a United States Army fort near Hays, Kansas.Active from 1865 to 1889 it was an important frontier post during the American Indian Wars of the late 19th century.
The largest remaining old-growth redwood forest on Earth has more than 17,000 acres of virgin forest. Scattered about are albino "ghost redwood trees," stripped of color and absorbing poisons from ...
Old Cowtown Museum is an accredited history museum located in Wichita, Kansas, United States.It is located next to the Arkansas River in central Wichita. [1] [2] The Museum was established in 1952, and is one of the oldest open-air history museums in central United States with 54 historic and re-created buildings, including a period farm and out-buildings, situated on 23 acres of land off the ...
It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.