Parsons; located in southeast Kansas; owes its existence to the railroad. When the first Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad locomotive reached the southern border of Kansas in June 1870; the railroad won two prizes; the coveted right to build across Oklahoma Indian Territory and the right to acquire extensive land grants in the territory. The fall of the same year; railroad executives selected a site for a major junction and terminal. The Parsons Town Company sold its first lots in 1871 at Parsons Junction; named for railroad president Judge Levi Parsons. Because of the town�s phenomenal growth; it soon earned the title of �Infant Wonder of the West.� The photographs contained in this book; including some of the earliest known of Parsons; serve as testimony to the energies and ingenuity of early settlers. These images also depict the development of Parsons-on-the-Prairie and its transformation from frontier town to the �Queen City of the Great Southwest.�
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