Kansas Towns & Places

Wichita, Kansas Cowtown Main Street, by Dave Alexander

Wichita, Kansas Cowtown Main Street, by Dave Alexander

Old Abilene Town, Kansas by Kathy Alexander.

Old Abilene Town, Kansas, by Kathy Alexander.

Abilene – Queen of the Kansas Cowtowns 

Alcove Spring – On the Oregon Trail 

Baxter Springs – 1st Kansas Cowtown 

Brookville – Another Crazy Cowtown 

Caldwell, Kansas – The Wicked Border Queen

Coffeyville & the Deadly Dalton Gang

Council Grove – Supplying the Santa Fe Trail

Dodge City – A Wicked Little Town

The Beginnings of Dodge City
Dodge City Newspaper Accounts
Hamilton Bell – Transforming Wicked Dodge City
Hell-Raising Dodge
Long Branch Saloon, Dodge City 
Long Branch Saloon Shootout 
Populating Boot Hill

One room school in Elk Falls, Kansas by Kathy Alexander

One-room school in Elk Falls, Kansas, by Kathy Alexander

Elk Falls – the World’s Largest Living Ghost Town 

Ellsworth – Another Wicked Kansas Cowtown 

Empire City – A Living Ghost Town 

Forgotten LeHunt

Galena – A Lead Mining Maven

Great Bend – Booming on the Santa Fe Trail 

Kansas Cowtowns

Kansas Ghost Towns

Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, Kansas 1908.

Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, Kansas 1908.

Lawrence – From Ashes to Immortality

The Haunted Eldridge Hotel
Lawrence Massacre
The Sacking of Lawrence

Leavenworth –  First City in Kansas

Nicodemus – A Black Pioneer Town

Riverton – Route 66 Tiny Town

Topeka, Kansas – Free-State Capitol

Ulysses – Born Twice and Still Kickin!

Vieux Crossing on the Oregon Trail

The Nicodemus Town Hall continues to stand by Kathy Alexander.

The Nicodemus Town Hall continues to stand by Kathy Alexander.

White Cloud – Not Quite Ghostly

Wichita – Roadtrip to Old Cowtown Museum

More Kansas Towns

© Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated February 2024.

Also See:

Frontier Trails of Kansas

Historic People of Kansas

Kansas Forts

Kansas – The Sunflower State