Muse.” Alta Muse was something of a mystery to Harvey County historians. In his 1881 History of Harvey County Judge Muse, noted in the section on naming cities and townships: “Alta was named in memory of the deceased daughter of the writer, Alta O. Historical Atlas of Harvey County – Alta Township indicated. Lakin declared that they bit his head through is hat. After reaching the cattle trail, we were beset by swarms of buffalo gnats and mosquitoes, so ravenous that Mr. We varied the monotony of the journey by shooting at wolves, coyotes, antelope and prairie chickens. Floyd, with who we staid all night.ĭuring the day, and after travelling over thirty miles, we had seen no human habitation or sign of civilization, our way being through high prairie grass, often standing above the height of our wagon wheels and bed. Here for the first time we struck the Chisholm, or the great Texas Cattle Trail and followed it down on the west side of Sand Creek as far as the mouth of the creek where we found the first settler we had seen in the county, Dr. Ainsworth is now situated, and upon the the present town site of Newton. , We stopped for dinner at a point on Sand Creek just south of where the residence of D.
On the 28th we passed over the ground now occupied by the town of Walton. On the 27th we continued our journey through an almost uninhabited region, passing over the ground where Florence now stands, and encamped for the night at a ranch owned by Coble and Kelly, about 4 miles east of the present town of Peabody. Doolittle, who kept a small hotel in that place. On the night of the 26th, we stopped at Cottonwood Falls, with Mr. On the 26th procured teams and provisions.
On the 25th day of August, 1870, we left the city of Topeka. The photos are the earliest Harvey County homes made of sod. In the History of Harvey County 1871-1881, Judge Muse described his first visit to the area that would become Harvey County. Today, January 29, the state of Kansas turns 158 years old!
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