History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas, past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county . Wichitas Mayor, Musical Club, Newspapers, Presbyterianism and Its Amenities, Prominence as a Stock and Feeder Market, Postoffice, Public Schools, Bailroad & Light Company, Searchlight, Sees Her Vision ami Smiles, Trunk Company, Water Company, , Hollis N., Belief Corps, No. 40, , D. P., of t
History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas, past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county . Wichitas Mayor, Musical Club, Newspapers, Presbyterianism and Its Amenities, Prominence as a Stock and Feeder Market, Postoffice, Public Schools, Bailroad & Light Company, Searchlight, Sees Her Vision ami Smiles, Trunk Company, Water Company, , Hollis N., Belief Corps, No. 40, , D. P., of the World, , Charles H., , Doc, Theater, , Frank, Shipments by the Bailroads, Orders, Eite Masonry, , George L., 922. 610 M< mm iH M ?JH mmIII mm WmSK ? m mran MM! ? m mm?iiP ? in ill , U IH ?OT an Kill WSfi ? m I m ? in mm 581 a ?. HISTORY OF WICHITA AND SEDGWICK COUNTY KANSAS PAST AND PRESENT INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE CITIES, TOWNSAND VILLAGES OF THE COUNTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF HON. O. H. BENTLEY Vol. II Illustrated 1910C. F. COOPER & CO. CHICAGO SCRAPS OF LOCAL HISTOEY 455THE STAGE COACH PERIOD OF WICHITA. By ±390091 FRED A. SOWERS. The public carrier system that peopled this valley so marvel-ously in the early seventies was crude and simple, consisting ofvehicles of every kind and class, drawn by animals of high andlow degree; mules, oxen, horses, and even burrows, a motely andheterogeneous mixture of all kinds and classes of people camewith them, and they mingled together without distinction. Theprairie schooner comers and the ox-cart people as well as the old-fashioned barouche occupants went into camp together on theoutskirts or crowded the dimly outlined lane through the prairieand sunflowers, irregularly dotted at intervals with one-storyhouses, and dignified by the name of Main street, Wichita. Newswahistoryofwichita02bent
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