Suicide Creek

Started by W. Gray, April 29, 2009, 05:43:23 PM

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W. Gray

April 29, 2009, 05:43:23 PM
Is anyone aware of a Suicide Creek that was supposedly in either western Elk County, western Chautauqua County, or eastern Cowley?
"If one of the many corrupt...county-seat contests must be taken by way of illustration, the choice of Howard County, Kansas, is ideal." Dr. Everett Dick, The Sod-House Frontier, 1854-1890.
"One of the most expensive county-seat wars in terms of time and money lost..." Dr. Homer E Socolofsky, KSU

pepelect

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April 29, 2009, 07:31:38 PM
I think that is where Tobina goes tubin'   :P

W. Gray

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April 29, 2009, 08:16:29 PM
Okay, Tobina, you are on.

Tell me how to get there.
"If one of the many corrupt...county-seat contests must be taken by way of illustration, the choice of Howard County, Kansas, is ideal." Dr. Everett Dick, The Sod-House Frontier, 1854-1890.
"One of the most expensive county-seat wars in terms of time and money lost..." Dr. Homer E Socolofsky, KSU

W. Gray

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May 05, 2009, 12:26:31 PM
The American Cyclopedia: a Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, 1874, says that Howard County, Kansas, is drained by Suicide Creek and other branches of the Arkansas River.

An 1869 map of Howard County published this month in Kansas History, A Journal of the Plains, shows the Elk River flowing into Suicide Creek northwest of what is now Howard. Suicide Creek then heads west and crosses into Cowley County at about where the Elk-Chautauqua line is now and then heads for the  Arkansas River.

Suicide Creek must not exist.




"If one of the many corrupt...county-seat contests must be taken by way of illustration, the choice of Howard County, Kansas, is ideal." Dr. Everett Dick, The Sod-House Frontier, 1854-1890.
"One of the most expensive county-seat wars in terms of time and money lost..." Dr. Homer E Socolofsky, KSU
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