Volume 9 , Issue 40

History of Caldwell, Kansas

The Border Queen... Caldwell, the Border Queen, has seen wild days as a cowtown beside the Chisholm trail, a brief period of booming times during the Oklahoma Land Rush days, and quiet prosperity based on the vast grainfields of Sumner County. Ghostly silhouettes on a hillside south of town give a feeling of the vast herds that moved through here in the nineteenth century. South of town, a pink granite marker tells the story of the "real" Cherokee Strip and gives another view of the Border Queen. Lots of things are happening this week and weekend in Oklahoma. One of those being the Cattle Drive 2007 of the anniversary of the 140th Chisholm Trail cattle drovers from Texas through Oklahoma to Abilene, Kansas for the purpose of the eastern beef lovers. -- History of Caldwell, KS
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