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Bill O'Neal

Border Queen Caldwell

Toughest Town on the Chisholm Trail

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The Wild West thrived for more than two decades in Caldwell, Kansas. Throughout the 1870s Caldwell was a lawless, unincorporated village astride the storied Chisholm Trail. Located just north of the Kansas state line, the Border Queen was the first semblance of a town seen by drovers after long weeks of shoving their herds through Indian Territory. The raucous trail town offered whiskey and women to legions of dusty cowboys, while inevitably becoming the site of shootouts and lynchings.In 1880 railroad tracks reached Caldwell, and the Border Queen boomed as the last railhead on the Chisholm Trail, succeeding Abilene, Newton, and Wichita. Shan… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-934645-66-6
  • EAN: 9781934645666
  • Produktnummer: 15866460
  • Verlag: Eakin Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Seitenangabe: 254 S.
  • Masse: H25.4 cm x B17.8 cm x D1.3 cm 485 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 485

Über den Autor


Bill O'Neal is the author of more than 40 books, and he served a six-year tenure as State Historian of Texas (2012-2018). A high point of his term as State Historian was delivering the keynote address at the 2014 anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto before an audience of 400 with re-enactors and descendants, including Sam Houston IV. A year later Bill was privileged to present the dinner speech at the annual April 21 banquet of the San Jacinto Museum of History Association.

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