Cow Creek (Kansas)

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Cow Creek is a large stream in Rice County, Kansas. From Lyons, Kansas, it is four miles west and one mile south. The Santa Fe Trail went over Cow Creek. Buffalo Bill Mathewson ran a trading post (known as "Buffalo Bill's Well") here at this loccation during the 1850s.

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• Historical marker cow creek station
• "Santa Fe Trail Research". View From USGS Aerial Photographs.
• Louise Barry, The Ranch at Cow Creek Crossing (Beach Valley, P. O.)
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• Donald O. Whittemore, TMDL Salt Assessment and Analysis: Chloride Impairment in the Gar-Peace and Cow Subbasins of the Lower Arkansas River Basin. Cow Creek Subbasin

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