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Great Bend

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Great Bend

Town and administrative headquarters of Barton County, central Kansas; population (2000) 15,300. It is a shipping centre for oil and wheat. It is home to the Barton County Community College (1965).

Deriving its name from its location on a sweeping curve of the Arkansas River, Great Bend was established in 1871 close to the site of the abandoned Fort Zarah, on the Santa Fe Trail. The following year it became a boisterous cow town after the railway's arrival. Pawnee Rock, the Cheyenne Bottoms marsh, a major migratory waterfowl stop, and the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge are all nearby.
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On the day following Captain Bonneville's supervision of the industrious and frolicsome community of beavers, of which he has given so edifying an account, he succeeded in extricating himself from the Wind River Mountains, and regaining the plain to the eastward, made a great bend to the south, so as to go round the bases of the mountains, and arrived without further incident of importance, at the old place of rendezvous in Green River valley, on the 17th of September.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
22d of May, that the river ahead made a great bend which would take up the navigation of the following day, he determined to profit by the circumstance.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
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