If you find files or links that don't work properly please notify me so I can fix them. Please note the URL of the file and specify the exact link that is failing. Sometime I just forget to turn things on, sometimes they get corrupted. I won't know unless you tell me.
Thanks, Bill Bottorff, 4/28/06 - email bbott@ausbcomp.com

Quick Indices

Entry to the Cowley County History CD
Trains, Planes, Cars, Boats and Other Transportation
Index of Winfield Related Items
Photo Archives from the Cowley County Historical Museum
Index to Maps of the Cowley County Historical Society Museum
Now Available for Purchase - Publications of the Cowley County Historical Society
Mary Ann Wortman's Home Page
Updated Old Newspaper Files from Mary Ann Wortman (ongoing)
Index_of_Wortman Archive
Other Cowley County History Sites
Eastern Cowley County Resource Center
History of Eastern Central Cowley County (web site)
by Emory Lewis <elewis@sktc.net>

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• NEW! Comments on Mary Ann Wortman by Jerry Wallace
• Brochure from First National Back featuring "The Story of Winfield" mural (thanks to Hal Hunt)
• Expanded Murders and Mayhem in Cowley County
• Stafford Residence to Become Southwest's First Tourist Home (thanks to Liz Codding for the article)
• Index to Maps of the Cowley County Historical Society Museum
• The strange story of Nellie C. Bailey and her book with help from Google Books
• Panoramic Images of the Downtown Blocks of Winfield, KS.
• Comparison Pictures between Then and Now, Downtown Winfield
• The Cowley County Censor - Vol. I, No. 29, March 18, 1871 Image of the Original
• The Gone List of Winfield, KS
• Pictures from Colleges, unidentified, un-indexed
• Pictures from Rural Schools, unidentified, un-indexed
• Index_of_Wortman Archive (For those who wish to dig into the depths of Mary Ann Wortman's work on Cowley County)
• Winfield Municipal Band Web Page (with YouTube clips) by Ed Trimmer and Scott Williams
• Woody Hockaday Highway Signs from Wichita Eagle article by Becky Tanner (thanks to Jerry Wallace)
• Winfield's Golden Era of Sports by Bob Hartley - signing 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009 at WPL.
• The Illustrated Western World, A Weekly Newspaper, Cowley County Feature July 2, 1887
• Merrily We Roll Along, article in May 1941 "Rotarian" by William F McDermott
• WHS Class of '58 in 1958 and in 2008
• Historical society receives print from Wortman (Article from Winfield Courier 10/17/2008)
• Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Day at Southwestern College, May 4, 1962
• The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory: Nimiipuu Survival (new book from U of Ok Press)
• A Day in the Life of Frontier Winfield, Oct. 3, 1879 A Paper Presented at CWH 2006.
• Now Available for Purchase - Publications of the Cowley County Historical Society
• Sister Aimee Comes to Kansas by Jerry Wallace
• (full text of the Traveler containing news about Sister Aimee)
• U.S. Mail in Winfield by Jerry Wallace
• Index of Articles about Geuda Springs
• Captain H. H. Siverd, Picture (from J. J. Banks) and Story (the Star at 9th & Main)
• The Vigilantes of Cowley County (html)
• The Vigilantes of Cowley County (printable pdf)
• Brettun Crapster
• The Crapster Family
• Charles C. (Charlie) Black
• Residences of Rev. N. L. Rigby - including 417 E. 10th.
• Coal in Cowley County, Kansas - Part I 1868-1882
• Coal in Cowley County, Kansas - Part II 1882-1885
• Coal in Cowley County, Kansas - Part III 1885-1891
• Southwestern Stage Company
• Scott and Manning Controversey and 1876 Kansas State Senate Election
• Geronimo and his associates at the 101 Ranch taking a drive in a 1905 Locomobile Model C
• Albin K. Longren Flies at Winfield Fair Grounds in 1911
• 1916 Agricultural Map of Cowley County showing Rural Schools
• List of Locations on the Map Sorted by Name
• List of Locations on the Map Sorted by Type (80 Schools, 26 Towns etc.)
• 45th Reunion, WHS Class of '60, June 3, 4, 2005 in Winfield
• 1870 Map of the State of Kansas from Original at CCHSM by Bruce Hedrick
• 783K(11x17 150dpi)
• 1,960K(24x17 150dpi)
• The original map from the Cowley County Historical Society Museum was scanned by Bruce Hedrick . Thanks Bruce.
• 1885 Winfield City Platt Map (High-Res 2mb)
• 1885 Winfield City Platt Map (Med-Res 886kb)
• List 2: People and Families of Cowley County 1869 - 1886 (also see: List 1)
• Max Fawcett's Claim, from Sam Dicks (Emporia)
• Old Pictures from 1957-58 WHS Class of '58
• Early Surveyors in Cowley County, Massacre in Indian Territory
• Coulter's Winfield City Directory for 1880 (Transcribed by Mary Ann Wortman, searchable)
• The Gentry Family in Cowley County
• The Robery of the Cowley County Bank, July 31, 1878
• Towns, Villages, Communities & Railroads of Cowley County, Kansas in 1892
• The Winfield Courier, April 1, 1886 (single issue now 739KB)
• Willis A. Ritchie, Architect
• The Bahntge Family in Cowley County, Kansas
• Winfield's Name Origin, Article by Winfield Scott, 1886
• Uncle Billy Gray, City Marshal, Arkansas City
• FORTS AND THE COURT SYSTEM FOR INDIAN TERRITORY
  • Cantonment
  • Fort Reno
  • Fort Sill
  • Camp Supply
  • Courts for Indian Territory
• The Winfield Courier for March 1886
• The Winfield Courier for February 1886
• Political, Official and Social Notes from Washington D. C concerning the U. S. Navy in 1885
• Miller Brothers involved in Land Fraud
• The First Steam Tractor Sold in Cowley Cowley by Van Vleet & Sage
• Interesting Items
• Families Related to Jeff Palmer
• A. J. Pyburn and Family
• Article about Mike Robe of Arkansas City
• The Winfield Daily Courier from January 1886
• Reminiscences of Early Cowley County by Cliff M. Wood, Feb. 1886
• Postcards from Mary Scott Jarvis
• History of Music in Winfield by Joe Watts (this is a wonderful article, read it!)
• The Mystery Hotel on East Ninth Avenue
• The Famous 3 Way Railroad Crossing in Winfield
• Fires, Firemen, Fire Equipment and Buildings Destroyed by Fires in Winfield
• Reprint of Article about Bob Lawrence and his History of Cowley County Auto Racing
• James Topliff, Postmaster Ark City, Samuel Topliff, founding member Assoc. Press.
• Topeka Daily Commenwealth
  • Daily Commonwealth, Topeka, Kansas, June 1871 through May 1872.
  • Daily Commenwealth, Topeka, Kansas, July 9, 1873 to July 24, 1874
  • Daily Commonwealth, Topeka, Kansas, July 1874 to August 1875.
• A New Set of Pictures from Bob Lawrence
• The Winfield Daily Courier for 1885 is now complete on this site.
• Hunt, Capt. J. S. and Family
• Sheriffs of Cowley County also: Frank Hunt, The First Sheriff of Cowley County, 1869.
• Arkansas City Steamboats
• Tull, James
• Tull, John W.
• Tull, Samuel
• Goodrich Family
• Bovee Family
• Faith Hanna and Marie Burdette reach 100 a day apart (by Jane Sandbulte)
• Thorpe Family, E. E. Thorpe
• Titus Family, Titus, Jacob G.
• Thompson Families in Cowley County
• A Question about Ariel Maps
• The Rise and Fall of Steamboats in Cowley County, Kansas 1875
• Daily Commonwealth, Topeka, Kansas, June 1871 through May 1872.
• Cowley County Fair in 1885-[Part II. Cowley County Fairgrounds.]
• R. L. (Dick) Walker, Mayor of Winfield 1877, Sheriff of Cowley County 1873.
• Mayor W. O. Johnson, 1903-1904, from Jerry Wallace
• Winfield, Noted Residences
• Mayors of Winfield, Photographs, Indexed by Year
• The Rev. Samuel S. Holloway and Family
• The Bruner Family in Cowley County, Kansas
• Bicycle and Velociped Transport the Late 19th Century in Cowley County, Kansas
• Cattleman Lee Kokernut of Gonzales, Texas and_George W. Miller of Winfield, Kansas and The 101 Ranch of Oklahoma
• PRESIDENT ULYSSES S. GRANT, the view from Cowley County Kansas
• Winfield Public Schools - Part Three - Teachers and Districts, 1883-1884
• Calvin Titus, Hero of Peking, Medal of Honor Winner, First Man Over Wall in Peking
• Winfield Public Schools - Part One - From Miss Bliss's First Class to 450 Students - from 1871 to 1878.
• Winfield Public Schools - Part Two -Many Teachers, Buildings, Students, Events - from 1879 to 1882.
• Memorial and Decoration Services for Veterans of "The War of the Rebellion" held in Winfield, KS. 1885.
• The Story of Mrs. J. E. Seeyle (of Ft. Scott) in Winfield Courier, 1885. She spent 3 years as a man in the Army in The Civil War.
• Items from The Winfield Courier about The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Organization in Winfield.
• The Organization and Founding of Southwestern College in Winfield (also about Winfield Enterprise Association & DM&A RR).
• Frankie Annabelle Snow Cullison, Jan. 29, 1910 to Jan. 1, 2001.
• ***A Site Map which shows All 91 Directories in this Home Page
• Howard Buffum's Winfield History Columns from The Winfield Courier
• Winfield Music History Page
• Updated Index! Photo Archives from the Cowley County Historical Museum
• Articles about the "Old Log Store" from the old newspapers.
• Articles about the Fire that Destroyed the Central Hotel and the Old Log Store.
• Early Winfield, Collected References From the 1870's in Winfield, Kansas.
• House Moving Day in Winfield, Moving a House with Steam Tractor
• Meeting of History Folks at the Winfield Public Library, 1:30 PM. Sunday, May 7, 2000.
• A Baden Family Scrapbook
• Fire Maps of Arkansas City, 1884 to 1912
• Architectural Drawings of the Arkansas City Santa Fe Passenger Depot, built 1887.
• The History of Cowley County Fairs by Mary Ann Wortman
• New set of Winfield pictures from Bob Lawrence
• Ghost on the Building, NE Corner 10th & Main, South side.
• Fire Maps of 6 Downtown City Blocks in Winfield by years, 1884, 1886, 1893, 1899, 1905, 1912
  • Downtown Winfield, range - 8th to 11th & Manning to Millington
  • North Main in Winfield, range - 8th to 6th & Manning to Millington
  • East Ninth Avenue in Winfield, range - 8th to 10th & Millington, Loomis, Fuller
  • Full Set of Winfield Fire Maps
  • Full Set of Arkansas City Fire Maps
  • Other City Fire Maps of Kansas
    • Abiline
    • Alma
    • Alto
    • Anthony
    • Attica
• New set of pictures from the Cowley County Historical Museum, Downtown Winfield 3-a2.
  • Other sets of Downtown Winfield Picture
    • winrr/mainst.htm The first set of Downtown Winfield, collected by Jim Davis
    • 3-a/index.html The set from envelope 3-a at the Cowley County Museum.
• "Births and Deaths of Cowley County, Kansas as Abstracted from the Winfield Daily Courier and Other Sources 1875-1969" a new genealogical CD-ROM (not on this site) by Bob Lawrence
• Updated Old Newspaper Files from Mary Ann Wortman (ongoing)
• City Directory of Winfield, Kansas. 1880, Larry Rhodes & Bruce Hedrick
• Pictures of People and Families of Cowley County, Kansas.
• KILLED BY LIGHTNING: WM. CRABB, PLEASANT VALLEY TOWNSHIP, June 3, 1877
• City Directory of Winfield, Kansas. 1888, Larry Rhodes & Bruce Hedrick
• The History of Cowley County, Vol II, THE INDIANS, by Mary Ann Wortman,& Bill Bottorff is Now Available.
• A Note on Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1919 - 80 years later at Southwestern by Jerry Wallace.
• A Guide to the Money of Cowley County by Bruce Hedrick.
• Date Sequential Index to Old (1868-1887) Cowley County Newspapers on CD ROM
• A New Batch of Pictures from the Cowley County Historical Museum
• The Cowley County CD in now online HERE!
• The Last Undefeated Season for the Winfield High Vikings (until 2000)
• HERE IS THE STRANGE STORY OF A "SMALL TIME" COACH WHO DID SOMETHING BIG FOR COLLEGE ATHLETICS -- BY REFUSING TO WIN A GAME by William F. McDermott
• Meeting! August 22, 1999, 1:30PM Winfield Public Library, Cowley County History
• Map of Railroads in the City of Winfield, Kansas in 1925
• City Fire Maps of Winfield in late 1800's & Early 1900's.
• Check written on M. L. Read's Bank in 1875
• Twenty Dollar Bank Note from Cowley County National Bank Winfield 1911
  Birds-Eye view of Winfield in 1878 - from original at Cowley County Historical Museum, Photo by Rex Flottman.
• Experimental PLAT MAP OF THE TOWN SITE OF WINFIELD 1872 (use WHIP 4.0 plugin)
• Experimental LOOMIS ADDITION TO THE CITY OF WINFIELD 1878 (use WHIP 4.0 plugin)
• Robbery in Winfield, New Cowley County History Web Site Computer stolen from 1985 Corvette in Winfield, on May 12, between 1:00 and 3:00 AM.
• Cowley County History Meeting 1:30 PM, Sunday, May 2, 1999 Winfield Public Library
• Arkansas City Postcards from Talea
• Cowley County Law Enforcement Officers Killed in the Line of Duty
• George Nichols, the man who shot Gilbert A. Twigg and saved a lot of lives.
  (the story about why and how this coverup for almost a hundred years will come later)
• Memories of Turn of the Century Winfield by William F. McDermott in May, 1941
• The Murder of Sheriff Shenneman in 1883 and the Lynching of his Assassin
• Camon Military Band, Winfield Kansas
• Mad About Music, 100 Piano Concert, Summer 1945
• Stephen Marchionda's Home Page
• Experimental A Map of the Named Creeks of Cowley County
• Gloria's Pictures from the '98 Reunion
• Mel Brown's pictures from the '98 Reunion
• Gib Overby and Gloria (Davis) Farley get Married on Valentines '99 email: farleyMom@aol.com
• A Collection of Links Concerning the "Wizard of OZ" and Populist Politics from the late 1800's
• A Selection of Material about Wirt Walton, Cowley County Democrat.
• Wirt Walton's Speech from the 4th of July,1876 Centennial Celebration in Winfield, Kansas.
• More Material on the First Train into Winfield and the 1879 Walnut Valley Fair
• J. D. McKown's report of the upper Arkansas river to Maj. Charles R. Suter, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. April 23, 1879.
• Report from Amos Walton re: The "Cherokee" Steamship, June 11, 1879. Ark City, Kansas
• Subjects and Stories from The Old Newspapers of the 1870's and 1880's
• Winfield Misic History - (This section will have to be written by those who know more than I)
• Old Postcards from Winfield, KS and Cowley County - (We are soliciting contributions)
• Winfield High School - Class Reunion Old Winfield Vikings Home Page
• Date Index to Newspaper files on CD-ROM
• The Camon Band Massacre - Mass Murder in Winfield in 1903 - Gilbert Twigg
• The Wortman's, Richard Kay, and Mary Ann, Cowley County Historians
• Cowley County History Resources CD ROM
• Curley Vaughn getting congratulations at his retirement dinner. (from Denny Splane)
• A Collection of Sante Fe Railroad Photographs From Cowley County, Kansas
  (Pictures furnished by Martha Saemenes: <Ltlpkg1@aol.com>)
• An Interview with Bill Powers (WHS '23) about Edison Ogrosky
• Winfield Viking Cars of the Fifties
• The First Car - A History of the Automobile
• Trains, Planes, Cars, and Boats
• More Info on Wagons Crossing the Arkansas picture
• Austin Scenes in QuickTimeVR
• Historic trolleys and Coaches of Winfield
• Index of all HTML Documents in WINRR (rail and transport) directory
• Introduction to Winfield History Items
• Winfield Today August 1997 new trolley, Mural, Tractors, The Hiatt House
• Memorium to Edison Ogrosky born September 16, 1902, died November 24, 1922.
• Winfield Vikings
• How to Order History of Cowley County - Volume I - The Beginning
  from the Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum
• How to Order Cowley County History Resorces CD ROM
• Articles from the Archives- from the Winfield Daily Courier
• Rustling the Rustlers, Poaching in Indian Territory A story
• Incursions/Excursions into Indian Territory (BIG!! 800K file) True stories from newspapers

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Trains, Planes, Cars and Boats

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Link to: Courier Online

Historic Photographs of Winfield, Ks.

• Introduction: A Collection of Photographs and Oral Recollections of Winfield
• Background: Winfield, Kansas and the Cowley County area
• Some Postcards and History
• Photo Archives of the Cowley County Historical Museum
• Photo Archives of the Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum

Indices: (Thumbnail images take some time to load)

Hot Spot Zooms on Specific Winfield Pictures

The First Construction Boom in Winfield1871-1873

4th of July Celebration on the New Main St. of Winfield 1871.

Main Street of Winfield in 1873.

Stage Coach at Central Hotel in Winfield, Ks. 1877

Denver, Memphis & Atlantic Railway Co. 1886

Computer Model of DM&ARy Chautauqua Steam Engine 1886

Old Bretton Hotel in Winfield, Ks.

Winfield Main Street Looking North Past Old Opera House

Celebration on GAR Day in Winfield in 1890.

Ninth & Main in Winfield, about 1890.

Horse Drawn Street Cars at 9th & Main in Winfield, about 1890.

Wagons Ready for the Opening of the Cherokee Strip in Sept. 16, 1893

Covered Wagon Race Passing 9th & Main in Winfield, about 1896?

GAR Day Celebration in Winfield in (or about) 1899.

Parade with First Car in Winfield, about 1910

Automobile Racing at the Cowley County Fairgrounds in about 1915

Davis Floral Co. Truck on Main Street in about 1953.

9th & Main St. in Winfield, Ks. about 1954

Winfield from the Air, about 1954

Other History Resources

• History of The Cherokee Strip Livestock Association by Billie Erin Walsh on Ancestry.com
• List of Names of Some of those who made the Cherokee Strip Land Rush on September 16, 1893. This document supplied by John Greven jeg@fullnet.net
  John & Cindy Greven's Home Page

Links to other History Resources.

3D Stereo Images for Red/Blue Glasses
winrr/3dstereo/index.html

WIK

MultiMedia and WIK- Wisdom, Information & Knowledge

Spanish Sonatas, a CD by Stephan Marchionda

Cars

Thrinaxodon Links

Thrinaxodon, a close relative of mammals
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/synapsids/rowe/thrinax.html
reprinted from T. Rowe, W. Carlson, and W. Bottorff, 1993. Thrinaxodon: Digital Atlas of the Skull. The University of Texas Press. CD-ROM.

INTRODUCTION TO THE DIGITAL ATLAS
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/synapsids/rowe/rowe.html

These are just some of the projects completed in the Visualization Lab.
http://www.utexas.edu/cc/vislab/gallery/index.html

GEO 302d
THE AGE OF DINOSAURS
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
FALL 1996
"The Age of Dinosaurs" is designed to introduce non-science majors to the methods and practice of natural science, using the systematics of dinosaurs as an example.
http://www.utexas.edu/ftp/cons/geo/courses/302d/dinopage.html

email to Bill Bottorff
bbott@ausbcomp.com