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/PRNewswire/ The former Riverside Hospital complex is set to sell at sealed-bid auction on June 30 at 12 p.m. CST. Five total tracts are available and are.
Next Best Thing | May 12, 2021
Wichita Art Museum has two events this weekend: First, a virtual Art Chatter featuring talks from a lineup of local creatives gets underway at 6:30 p.m. this Friday on Zoom. Registration is at wichitaartmuseum.org. There you’ll also find more information about Saturday’s Yoga in the Art Garden, an all-levels yoga class that starts at 9 a.m.
The Orpheum Theatre’s grand reopening is coming up on May 21 with a live performance from Wichita’s own Jenny Wood. Jenny will perform already known and new material, plus one-acts between songs from her new theatrical experience titled
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.