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One of the most enduring images of the Old West is that of a great herd of Texas Longhorn cattle snaking its way north over the dusty Chisholm Trail to railroad stockyards at the end of the trail. Hundreds of thousands of cattle walked their way into oblivion, herded by leather-skinned, trailhardened cowboys whose names have been forgotten to all but a few disciples of trail history.
Read moreEllsworth County services temporarily on hold — again
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General Sheridan’s Winter Campaign to force the Indians out of Kansas was launched in November 1868. The most famous action of the campaign was the attack on Black Kettle’s camp by the Seventh Cavalry led by “Gen.” George Armstrong Custer. However, the entire campaign lasted until early spring 1869.
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March. It comes in like a lion. So far, we haven’t been disappointed.
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Railroad fever spread like a wild prairie fire across the Kansas plains in the early part of 1870. The Kansas Pacific Railway had just crossed the entire state from the Missouri River to the western border and was about to reach Denver. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, building toward southwest Kansas, had temporarily halted a few miles north of Osage City. A new supply of iron rails was all they needed to reach Emporia while the summer was yet young.
Read moreKansas newspapers grabbed international attention last summer with the police raid on the Marion County Record. While that story still rumbles along, fresh concerns have emerged. Kansas public television saw its funding threatened this month after a state senator took offense, and news outlets across the country have faced challenging economic and political headwinds.
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Ellsworth in 1867 was as desperate a place as any on the plains. “A man for breakfast” was the morning’s oath, and by dinner, the oath was often satisfied.
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