I've been reading the book, "The Call of the Range" by Nellie Snyder Yost. The chapter I'm reading right now is telling about settling along the Republican River, the Texas Trail, cowboys and range fighting. Alot of the stories are about the Culbertson area. Here is an interesting little snippet, I thought you'd find interesting:
"In 1874, two ranchmen from the forks of the Republican, forty miles west, came into town. they had been living in a tent and one had been bitten by a skunk while he slept. He died the next day, of hydrophobia and Culbertson started its cemetery with him. The next burials were the Kansas horse thieves, Stewart and Randall, cornered and killed in Masacre Canyon by a cowboy crew led by Steve Bolles and the Doyle brothers. The next death was that of a respectable citizen, whose family would not bury him beside the other three, making it necessary to start another cemetery in a different place."-- The Call of the Range, by Nellie Snyder Yost
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