Kansas Cowtowns

Websites that Feature the famous Cowtowns of Kansas.

  • Kansas Cattle Towns
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    The Kansas Cattle Town Coalition has information about six historic Kansas towns that were heavily influenced by the Texas cattle trade in the late 1800's.

  • Kansapedia - Cowtowns
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    "After the Civil War there was an acute shortage of beef in the northern states. Texas ranchers were burdened with five million head of cattle and no railroads on which to ship them to market. Realizing the immense profit to be made, Texas cattlemen looked for the nearest rail heads. Thus began the era of the long cattle drive and Kansas cowtowns".-- Kansapedia  Click on the link to read the rest of the article.

  • Kansas Historical Quarterly - Abilene, First of the Kansas Cow Towns
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     Kansas Historical Quarterly - Abilene, First of the Kansas Cow Towns. by George L. Cushman. August 1940 (Vol. 9, No. 3), pages 240 to 258. 

  • Old Cowtown Museum
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    The Old Cowtown Museum, located in Wichita, Kansas, iis a living history museum where you’ll experience life in the 1870s. Immerse yourself in a sampling of the sights, sounds and activities common to a Midwestern cattle town.