HISTORIC & AUTHENTIC
KANSAS COWTOWN

LOCATED ON THE HISTORIC CHISHOLM TRAIL

Caldwell, Kansas

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ATTRACTIONS & ENTERTAINMENT

Border Queen Museum

By Appointment Only

The Roost
Cattleman's Room

Opera House

By Scheduling A Tour

Historical Markers

Self-guided Downtown Walking Tour

Rails, Trails & Scales Visitor Center

Self-guided Tour

Talking Tombstones

By Scheduling A Tour

Border Queen Regulators
Border Queen Bellas

By scheduling A Tour

Ghost Riders Of The Chisholm Trail

Scenic Highway Turnout

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Caldwell was founded in 1871 astride the then-new Chisholm Trail as an economic adventure of a group of Wichita entrepreneurs. The trail, running from Texas to the Intercontinental Railroad in northern Kansas, guided over a million longhorn steers and their guardian cowboys through Caldwell.

This vintage cowtown --- a place of cowboys, saloons, gambling, and violence --- boasted a longer cowtown period (1880 - 1885), a higher murder rate, and loss of more law enforcement officers than other more famous cowtowns. Being the first town north of Indian Territory, cowboys went wild in this untamed "Border Queen City" after months on the dusty and treacherous trail. Gunfights, showdowns, hangings, and general hell-raising were commonplace.