Abilene, Kansas, part 2

The face that the Frontier Store presented to the town was typical of the times: across the façade it's name was displayed in erratic lettering, the windows on either side of the door sported a thick layer of dust that barely made the items on display visible. But once you stepped inside its dusky, and dusty, interior you found yourself in a wonderful world of unique sites and smells.

Abilene, Kansas, part 3: If They Don't Have it, You Don't Need it, to be published on September 22, 2005, at: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/1379...

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A link to the index of towns in this series, listed under their present-day state name at: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/1379...

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Also by Mary Trotter Kion at Suite 101:

ESCAPE THE SUNRISE http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/19602 Minnie, a slave of Negro, Irish and Indian blood, lives on a Virginia plantation called Sunrise, in the early 1800s. Minnie and her mistress, both pregnant, run away. Minnie eventually heads to the Far West, Susan to the theatrical district of New York.

Rails Across a Nation: A Suite 101 e-Book by Mary Trotter Kion. http://www.north46.com/rails.html This is the adventure of the Transcendental Railroad that was built across the vast United States.

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Copyright © Mary Trotter Kion, 2005

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To learn more about life in early Kansas, on the Internet, please see:

Dickinson County, Kansas http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/dick... This is an extensive article on the history of Dickinson Country where Abilene was started.

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