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Title: Suicide Creek
Post by: W. Gray on 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?

Title: Re: Suicide Creek
Post by: pepelect on April 29, 2009, 07:31:38 PM

I think that is where Tobina goes tubin' :P

Title: Re: Suicide Creek
Post by: W. Gray on April 29, 2009, 08:16:29 PM

Okay, Tobina, you are on.

Tell me how to get there.

Title: Re: Suicide Creek
Post by: W. Gray on 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.

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General Category => The Good Old Days => Topic started by: W. Gray on April 29, 2009, 05:43:23 PM