Burdie
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The second Post has the web site for more information.
Hi TNet members I am considering putting on a two day hunt with Stony. The location would be on the Chisholm Cattle trail. This location is a field and tree lined creek.. In the 1890’s this area had three houses, a livery stable, a house of ill-repute next to the trail. I would not consider these 10 acres to be heavily detected. I have found an 1892-quarter, Indian head penny no date, a US bridal rosette, bullets and numerous artifacts. I am considering having a few tokens planted for prizes also. During the two days we will have a break to visit the talking tombstones. This is a program that people tell the history of the person buried at each site. We will also have a dinner theater at night in the original site of the first opera house in Caldwell. These are at no cost to the registered hunters. BBQ dinner the first night an additional $8.00.
Caldwell was founded in 1871 astride the then new Chisholm Trail as an economic adventure of a group of Wichita entrepreneurs. The trail, running from Texas to the Intercontinental Railroad in northern Kansas, guided over a million longhorn steers and their guardian cowboys through Caldwell.
This vintage cow town --- a place of cowboys, saloons, gambling, and violence --- boasted a longer cow town period (1880 - 1885), a higher murder rate, and loss of more law enforcement officers than other more famous cow towns. Being the first town north of Indian Territory, cowboys went wild in this untamed "Border Queen City" after months on the dusty and treacherous trail. Gunfights, showdowns, hangings and general hell-raising were commonplace. From these true stories came the romanticized American cowboy and the love of the Wild West.
Caldwell's riotous past is acknowledges with a life-sized silhouette of a trail cattle drive, historical markers everywhere you turn telling the cowtown stories, boot hill cemetery with "Talking Tombstone" re-enactors, and celebrations that bring history to life.
Would you be interested in such a hunt? I would have to charge $50 dollars for those hunting. Prizes will be handed out on the last day.
If this will be of interest to you let me know with feed back. Only in planning stage at this time. I will start up a website for more details if interest warrants it. Let me know if this strikes interest. Check this web site out to find more on this area. http://caldwellkansas.com Thanks for looking.
Burdie
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