Dickinson County, Kansas (KS), United States, North America
Latitude
38°55'N
Longitude
97°13'W
Abilene
(AB-uh-leen), city (1990 pop. 6,242),
Dickinson co., central Kansas, on the Smoky Hill R.; 38°55'N
97°13'W. The city, a shipping point for a wheat and cattle region,
has feed and flour mills. It was (1867-1871) a railhead for a large
cattle-raising region extending SW into Texas. Millions of cattle
followed the Chisholm Trail into Abilene's stockyards prior
to shipment. A famous cowtown of the Old West, Abilene once had “Wild
Bill” Hickok as its marshal. Abilene was the boyhood home of former
President Dwight D. Eisenhower; the Eisenhower Center includes his old
family homestead, a mus., the Eisenhower Lib., and his grave. Inc.
1869.
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Dickinson co., central Kansas, on the Smoky Hill R.; 38°55'N
97°13'W. The city, a shipping point for a wheat and cattle region,
has feed and flour mills. It was (1867-1871) a railhead for a large
cattle-raising region extending SW into Texas. Millions of cattle
followed the 
