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Leoti was founded in 1885 [4] by a company of men from Garden City, Kansas.Two years later, in 1887, it was involved in the bloodiest county seat fight in the history of the American West.
The Museum of the Great Plains, in Leoti, Kansas, in Wichita County, Kansas, is a local history museum founded in 1982. [2] It includes the 1892-built Washington-Ames House. It is located in the Municipal Auditorium and City Hall, at 201 N. 4th St., which was built during 1939-42. [3]
The fight between Coronado and neighboring Leoti in western Kansas is considered the bloodiest occurrence of this phenomenon. Leoti hired lawmen Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson from Dodge City, Kansas to help win the fight. Another violent county seat war in Kansas resulted in the Hay Meadow Massacre in Stevens County.
Platted in 1885, Coronado was involved in one of the bloodiest county seat fight in the history of the American West.The shoot-out on February 27, 1887, with boosters—some would say hired gunmen—from nearby Leoti left several people dead and wounded.
In 1803, most of the land for modern day Kansas was acquired by the United States from France as part of the 828,000 square mile Louisiana Purchase for 2.83 cents per acre. In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. In 1886, Wichita County was established.
As part of her “Secret Kansas” book tour, Yonkey will visit three area locations: the Warkentin House Museum in Newton on Friday evening, April 28, and the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical ...
Marion Charles Bonner (1911–1992), based for most of his life in Leoti, Kansas, was an American field paleontologist who discovered and collected hundreds of fossils, primarily from the Niobrara Cretaceous Smoky Hill chalk outcroppings in Logan, Scott, and Gove counties of western Kansas.
The Kansas City area can boast more than 30 restaurants that have been around for at least five decades. ... Flashing red neon signs — “Since 1919” — broadcast the 103-year history to the ...