. Memoirs and recollections of C. W. Goodlander of the early days of Fort Scott, from April 29, 1858, to January 1, 1870, covering the time prior to the advent of the railroad and during the days of the ox-team and stage transportation. And biographies of Col. H. T. Wilson and Geo. A. Crawford, the fathers of Fort Scott . d. The first car offreight that came by rail to Fort Scott was a carof lath shipped to me for the old Gulf house, andI unloaded it while the engine was switching thetrain, so it was scattered a quarter of a milealong the track. There was a great blow out atthe advent of this
. Memoirs and recollections of C. W. Goodlander of the early days of Fort Scott, from April 29, 1858, to January 1, 1870, covering the time prior to the advent of the railroad and during the days of the ox-team and stage transportation. And biographies of Col. H. T. Wilson and Geo. A. Crawford, the fathers of Fort Scott . d. The first car offreight that came by rail to Fort Scott was a carof lath shipped to me for the old Gulf house, andI unloaded it while the engine was switching thetrain, so it was scattered a quarter of a milealong the track. There was a great blow out atthe advent of this railroad into Fort Scott, as itwas the first time a locomotive had blown itswhistle this far south. The first county fair held in Fort Scott was heldin the stockade fort at the corner of Nationalavenue and Second street, in the fall of 1865, andthe second fair was held in the fall of 1866, in thegovernment corral enclosure that had been builtby the quartermasters department during the war,about in the locality of the present PresbyterianChurch. There was quite a large enclosure andthere was room for a short race track, but at thetime the fair was held the grasshoppers were sothick on the track that they could have no fall there was a story in Kansas that thegrasshoppers stopped a railroad train, whether. EA RL Y DA YS OF FOR T SCO TT 111 this is true or not, I must say they stopped thehorse races as they were from one to three inchesdeep on the track and plenty to spare. In 18GT the first settlers of Fort Scott decided tohave a blow-out. The following is a fac-simile ofthe bill of fare of the supper they had, the origi-nal having been preserved by my wife and is nowin her possession. 1857. 186 PIONEER SUPPER. Wilder House. Fort Scott, Kansas, Nov. 14, 18(57. BILL OF FARE. Twelve Oclock Supper. Soup. Oyster. Colbert. Fish. •Baked Black Bass. Broiled Red-horse. Leg of Mutton, Caper sauce:Wild Turkey, Braised w^ith Oysters :Ham, Champagne sauce: Broile
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