Show vald gow cow towns tomas hold og 02 Ss misses one of 0 tile the mos romantic lc roles in kansas history was ft as player by the texas kansas cattle trolls trails arid and the wild frontier towns which became shipping if points for the it was joseph G mccoy who first 1 decided to io 10 lo jo something thing about a market for T doxas a aas cattle there were millions million of the cattle and they were more valuable than tile the buffalo which roomed roamed the kansas prairies ra irles At athirst first kansas towns w interested gin texas cattle at least most of 0 them veren verent but abilene was although it was only a small dead place consisting of about a dozen log huts As soon scon 0 as mccoy started bui building iding his debott depot fat it abalene Ab llene e the village awakened and teemed with activity by 1870 there were 4 hotels 10 boarding houses 8 9 or 10 saloons and other business places one of the first buildings of course was A 0 the jall jail sidewalks were of wood and soon trembled and clattered cis as boot heels clomped on them kansas cow towns held the spot light of the front frontier ler there were ft ere ellsworth newton wichita larger and noisier than most and finally dodge city toughest ol of them all for 10 years dodge city was the wickedest wick edest town inthe country but it ought fought hard to gain thit that dis thic tlona i f af pf yva y |