Articles on Various Subjects
from the Old Cowley County Newspapers
and Interviews With Oldtimers

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by Dr. William W. Bottorff and Mary Ann Wortman

This is a series of articles on random subjects, extracted from the old newspaper files and from interviews which Richard Kay Wortman carried out with oldtimers before his death. These are still working files, but they may be of interest to entheusiaists because of their special nature and the fact that much of this material is only available on microfilm which in not easy to read or to work with. This is very much a work in progress.

  1. Movie Star Helen Gibson: 101 RANCH ROUND-UP and The Millers< 1874 to 1922
  2. 3rd Hill, The Founding of Winfield State Hospital 1881-1885
    "The asylum for imbecile and idiotic youths"
  3. U.S.A. Military Aeronautics - "JANE'S - 1919" - The Early Beginnings
  4. Air Craft and Air Ports in Cowley County
  5. Aviation History in Arkansas City, Kansas
  6. Aunt Sally the Steamboat Comes to Arkansas City, July 3, 1878
  7. The Baer Family name in Arkansas City, Kansas Newspapers
  8. The Bahntge Family in Cowley County, Kansas
  9. Balloons and Exhibitions, WINFIELD COURIER, MARCH 20, 1874
  10. Bones Uncovered at South Haven 1876
  11. Brand Book - Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association 1883
  12. Bootlegging in Cowley County
  13. Breweries in Winfield, Frank Manny
  14. Henry Brown's Drug Store, 805 Main Street, Winfield, Ks. 1881 - 1894
  15. Buckingham and West India Soft String Bean Seeds
  16. Buckskin Joe Hoyt
  17. Cattle and Cowley County Cattle Drives, 1876 - 1880
  18. Central Hotel, Winfield 1880 - 1886
  19. cityhall.htm
  20. colored.htm
  21. Cowboy Strike, 1883
  22. data.htm
  23. dunkard.htm
  24. Early Days in Winfield an Address by D. A. Millington, Before The Arkansas Valley Editorial Association At Winfield, Kansas April 17, 1880.
  25. Emporia News, Notes from November 5, 1869 to 1871 - First Santa Fe, then Mexico City!!!
  26. Floral Tornado - June 1881
  27. fortner.htm
  28. Freeze of 1886
  29. gas.htm
  30. Ghost Visits the Mulford Family
  31. gold.htm
  32. helium.htm
  33. Hickock at Deadwood
  34. hittle.htm
  35. hnbrown.htm
  36. Hookers, Fair Soiled Doves & Ladies of the Night 1873 to 1887
  37. hunters.htm
  38. Ice Business in Cowley County 1877-1922
  39. Interurban - Winfield to Ark City 1922
  40. judson.htm
  41. k&nrr.htm
  42. king.htm
  43. Klan in Cowley County, Kansas 1877 to 1922
  44. lemmon.htm
  45. Luke Short, about whom the fuss at Dodge City was kicked up, arrived here on Monday.(THE CALDWELL JOURNAL, May 24, 1883)
  46. Lynching, Righteous Hanging? 1879 Editorial
  47. Manny, Frank - 1879 Brewer, 1881 Bootlegger
  48. Mayor M. G. Troup's Inaugural Address, 1881 and the Loss of Saloon Revenue do to Prohibition
    City Budget drops from
    $3,320.31 in 1880 to $635.00 1881, volunteers solicited for street maintenance.
  49. mexico.htm
  50. national.htm
  51. nellie.htm
  52. newmex80.htm
  53. norton.htm
  54. notes.htm
  55. opera.htm
  56. pacers.htm
  57. park.htm
  58. pennoil.htm
  59. photogs.htm
  60. quotes.htm
  61. railroad.htm
  62. Rodeo - Cowboy and Indian Celebrations In Winfield - 1879 to 1886
  63. Sheriff A. T. Shenneman of Cowley County, Kansas 1880-1883
  64. Sheriff Shenneman's Murder and the Lynching of his Assassin
  65. Ships, Boats and Steamers in Cowley County
  66. Early News Items About Hugh H. Siverd
  67. Sybil Bolton Antecedents, Bill Conner and Angie Pyne, 1874
  68. Technology in Cowley County, 1879 to 1887
  69. Weddings in Cowley County
  70. Winfield Waterworks Committee Decides to Erect a Reservoir on Center Mound, 1880
  71. Wax as a Component of Cowley County Crude Oil
  72. Younger Boys in Wichita before The Northfield Robbery (the Wichita bank had closed,they couldn't rob it, so they went to Northfield, Minn.)


Other Subjects
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