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19 sty 2021 · Ellsworth, just like many other towns, had a secret underground network of passageways beneath the town. The tunnels connected hotels during an era of cattle drives, and were once considered for Gentlemen only.
Like other Kansas cowtowns, Ellsworth quickly gained a reputation as a wild and wooly place, becoming the scene of numerous killings following shootouts between drunken cowboys. In its early days, the area was besieged by a gang led by two men named Craig and Johnson.
6 sty 2017 · Rural settlement around Ellsworth blocked the cattle trails, and then the Kansas Pacific shut down the cattle pens. Dodge City became the new “Queen of the Cowtowns.” And Ellsworth became a peaceful little country town—not so wicked anymore.
Ellsworth is a city in and the county seat of Ellsworth County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 3,066. [4] Known as a cow town in the 1870s, when the Kansas Pacific Railroad operated a stockyard here for shipping cattle to eastern markets, in the 21st century, it serves as the trading center of the rural county.
31 gru 2021 · To get inside The Underground — a speakeasy-style bar located below Ellinwood's Historic Wolf Hotel — you first have to knock on an unassuming back door at the hotel. "Password?" a voice...
It’s the late 1800s in Ellinwood, Kansas, a town German immigrants call home. Sitting in the center of Kansas on the Santa Fe Trail, teamsters and cowboys pass through, stopping in for banking, the barber, a bath, and perhaps the brothel.
Ellsworth was a vital and important major shipping point on the Kansas Pacific Railroad, and home to thousands of cattle being moved up the trail. Learn about the rich history that inspired a national project.
