There’s still time to register for
mama.film’s movie trivia tomorrow night. It’s hosted by Hugo Phan of the KMUW Movie Club, and I’ve heard a certain local movie reviewer will serve as scorekeeper. It’s a series of four events, every other Thursday through August 12. Learn more at mama.film.
Starting this Friday, July 9, the City of Wichita is offering
Floatin on the River kayak tours on the Arkansas. There are four different types through September 15: moonlight Glow Tours, a Senior Tour and Sunrise Tour, and several Sunset Tours. Click here to see all the dates and times.
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True West Magazine
The once wild and woolly cowtown still celebrates its Old West heritage.
The arrival of the railroad in 1872 transformed this trading post settlement on the Arkansas River into a cowtown, a destination for cattle driven north on the Chisholm Trail.
The Texas drovers brought trouble, and trouble brought a young lawman named Wyatt Earp. He did fine work until his temper won out and he used his fists to beat the socks off a candidate for city marshal.
Founded in 1868 near the confluence of the Little Arkansas and Arkansas rivers, the frontier outpost of Wichita quickly became a trailhead for Texas cattlemen and their herds of longhorns when the AT&SF Railroad arrived in 1872.