St. Francis, Kansas             a look at the past

Benkelman Ranch, 1879

The first Cheyenne County Rustler was printed July 3, 1885.

In 1886, a newspaper editor in Atwood, Kansas wrote in his local paper of the surprising changes in “the valley by the Republican.” He...

Twenty-one years before the first post office in Cheyenne County was established in 1880, there were thousands of Pike’s Peak gold...