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Caldwells Wild Border Days Turn Sour At Restaurant
Gordon Lillie waits tables in Caldwell Kansas as cowboys, railroad workers, and outlaws pour into town after the Santa Fe line arrives. A tense clash with Tom Benton ends when Joe Craig intervenes and warns Benton off, foreshadowing frontier feuds as Caldwell grows into a boom town with Bar K beef at stake.
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Captain Stone
Kansas
Indian Territory
Fall Creek
Big Casino Creek
Stone
Emerson
Dickie
Bloomington
Ill
Lillies
Wellington
Kas
Caldwell
Gordon Lillie
Benton
Lillie
Joe Craig
Tom
Ogallala
Neb
Union Pacific
Dagner
Smith
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Wichita
Chisholm Trail
Buffalo
Gordon W. Lillie
Lena
Gordon
Lucy Conant
Newton Lillie
Titus Moore
Craig
Bar X