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Kit Carson County Cattlemen History
Settlement Family Registry  -- Bethune, Colorado

In 1956 Roy Bader, who was then the Secretary of the Kit Carson County Cattlemen's Association, started compile histories and stories about the Cattlemen & Women in the County. Mr. Bader died suddenly in 1961 and his wife Avis WAGNER Bader completed the project.  In 1963 a 130 page booklet with these materials was published by the Association.  It has since been reprinted.
The materials for this book were obtained from the following:
Stories written by the early pioneers and published in the Burlington Call in the 1930's, and from talking to the few old-timers that are left, also from the accounts found in some early day newspapers, the Burlington Republican, 1895 and on, and from the Kit Carson County Record, 1901 and on, loaned by Mrs. Mabel Parke whose parents and grandparents were early day pioneer settlers and cattlemen in Kit Carson County.
  • Burlington Record. Flagler News.
  • Accounts collected by Mrs. Sherman Corliss.
  • Henry Hoskin's Scrapbook.
  • The Kit Carson Co. Ranch and Farm Guide and other records found in the County Agent's Office. Colorado, by Hafen and Hafen.
  • Western Farm Life.
  • Colorado Cattle Guard.

Part I
The Cattlemen in Kit Carson County, Colorado
Chapter 1. The Beginning.
Chapter 2. The First Ranches.
Chapter 3. Cattlemen and Their Brands
Chapter 4. The Days of the Early 1900's
Chapter 5. The "Texas Itch".
Chapter 6. Growth and Development.
Chapter 7. The Flood of 1935.
Chapter 8. Activities of the Cattlemen.
Chapter 9. The Kit Carson County Cattlemen's Association.

Part II
 1. Relief Map of Kit Carson County.
 2. Map of the Early Day Post Offices.
 3. Kit Carson County.
 4. Christopher "Kit" Carson
 5. Burlington
 6. The "Settlement"
 7. Bethune.
 8. Stratton.
 9. Vona.
10. Seibert.
11. Flagler
12. Ghost Towns of Kit Carson County
13. Schools.
14. Old Stage Coach Routes
15. Early Day Post Offices
16. First Marriages Recorded at the Court House
17. Early Day Preachers in the County.
18. Bad Storms That Have Hit the County.

PART III
  1. Memoirs of Pioneer Days in Kit Carson County, Colo.
  2. An Early Day Cattle Buyer.
  3. The Bar T Story.
  4. We Helped Start the Settlement.
  5. The Patriarch.
  6. We Came From Russia.
  7. The Story of August Fanselau.
  8. I Punched Cows on the Chicago Ranch.
  9. Early Day History of James B. Pfaffly.
10. Tom Dillon and the Bar T.
11. The Shaw Story.
12. An Early Day Cowboy and Homesteader.
13. I was the First White Child Born in Kit Carson County.
14. Burt Ragan.
15. Linc Hines.
16. The Short Nights of a Cowboy.
17. From Russian Immigrant to Bank Director.
18. A Boy Comes to Flagler.
19. A Pioneer Cattlewoman.
20. A Visit With John Richards.
21. Story of a Pioneer.
22. Death of a Pioneer Baby.
23. I Drove the Stages.
24. Early Days in Colorado.
25. In a Covered Wagon.
26. An Early Settler.
27. I Drove the Texas Longhorn Steers.
28. Early Recollections of Eastern, Colorado.
29. Homestead Days on the Plains.
30. A Pioneer Well Driller and Cattleman.
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