Cimarron, Kansas
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Cimarron is a city in and the county seat of Gray County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,981. It is located along Highway 50.
Historic 1886 Cimarron Hotel
Main Street (1914)
Gray County War
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The Gray County War was a county seat war in Gray County, Kansas, between 1887 and 1893.
Cimarron, Kansas
…was first settled in 1878. It took its name from a fork in the Santa Fe Trail which led travelers to the Cimarron River. Between 1887 and 1893, a county seat war took place in Gray County that involved several notable Old West figures, such as Bat Masterson, Bill Tilghman, and Ben Daniels. As a result of the…
The headline of a Wichita Daily Eagle article warning of violence in Gray County following the county seat election in 1887.