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Valentine railhead cattle town

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also reported: cartridges.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Why this spot

1905 historic-map era

1882 end-of-track cattle and freighting town above the Minnechaduza and Niobrara canyons, wild in its railhead years; saloon-row backlots and canyon dumps hold the boom.

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