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150th anniversary of the Chisholm Trail

Rex Buchanan

One-hundred fifty years ago, Kansas was an undeveloped, rugged and often lawless place -- full of settlers, gamblers and gunslingers. Kansas was the very epicenter of the Wild West.

As Commentator Rex Buchanan tells us, the state was also full of another iconic symbol: cowboys.