Kansas
Newton Sand Creek and Little Arkansas cowtown
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottlesAlso reported: cartridge cases from the 1871 Hyde Park gunfight era.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Sand Creek through town; the Little Arkansas River lies about 1.5 miles east
Briefly the wild end-of-Chisholm-Trail railhead after Abilene, on Sand Creek near the Little Arkansas; included as a confirmed 1884 Sanborn town, with the main river just outside the one-mile mark.
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