Trails, Rails and Tales



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Midwestern Getaways Your Southern Girlfriends Will Love

Thanks to Southern Living, Abilene area business and attractions received some additional publicity. Need a getaway with your best girlfriends? Abilene is the place for you! 


Labor Day Weekend Restaurant Hours:

Restaurant
Labor Day Weekend Hours
Amanda's Bakery & Bistro:
Sat  9 am - 3 pm
Closed Sun & Mon
Brookville Hotel:
Sat 11:30 am - 8 pm
Sun 11:30 am - 7 pm
Closed Mon
The Hitching Post:
Friday thru Monday 6 am - 3 pm, 5:30 - close
Ike's Bar and Grill:
Fri & Sat 11 am - midnight
Sun & Mon 11 am - 9 pm
Mr. K's Farmhouse:
Fri & Sat 11 am - 2 pm; 5 pm - 9 pm
Sun 11 am - 2 pm
Closed Mon
Joe Snuffy's:
Fri - Sun 11 am - 8:30 pm
Closed Mon thru Wed
La Fiesta:
Fri & Sat 11 am - 10 pm
Sun 11 am - 3 pm
M&R Grill:
Fri 11 am - 10 pm
Sat 8 am - 10 pm
Sun 8 am - 3 pm
Closed Mon
Three One One:
Fri 11 am - 8 pm
Sat 11 am - 8:30 pm
Closed Sun thru Tues
Tossed 'n' Sauced:
Fri & Sat 11 am - 9 pm
Sun & Mon 11 am - 8 pm


USA Today's Best Kansas Attraction 

Thanks to everyone for voting for the Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum & Boyhood Home in the USA Today's Best Kansas Attraction contest. The winner will be announced on Friday, Sept. 1. 

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Throwback Thursday

Sunflower Journeys - C.L. Brown - Kansans You Should Know

In 1899, C. L. Brown founded the United Telephone company in Abilene, KS. We tell the story of Mr. Brown and learn how his little company merged with other companies to later become the Sprint Corporation. We visit The Museum of Telephony in Abilene, where the story comes to life through many displays showing telephones and equipment over the decades.


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Dickinson County Heritage Center

We were honored to meet Brenda Fohlmeister from San Antonio, Texas. She is a direct descendant of Phil Coe. 

Phil was the co-owner of the infamous Bull's Head S aloon in 1871, when he and his business partner, Ben Thompson, decided to paint an extremely graphic and inappropriate depiction of a bull on the side of their building. After public outcry, Marshal Wild Bill had to ask them to remove the painting. Coe being the strong willed Texan refused so Wild Bill took matters into his own hands and made the painting more kid friendly with a bit of white paint. 

Abilene on the south side of the tracks became a hotbed for post Civil War fallout. Coe would lead the charge for Texans. As Coe vowed that Wild Bill would be dead before the end of the cattle season, the cool wind of October started to move in, and Coe had to make his move. 

As the rowdy cowboys on Texas street were making things a bit uncomfortable, Coe fired two shots at Wild Bill, one split a hole through Bill's coat, and the other shot hit the ground ahead of Bill. As Bill returned fire, he put two shots in Coe's abdomen and left him to bleed out. 

As Wild Bill frantically looked around for some other Wild cowboy to take their shots, a silhouette of an armed man came running straight at Hickok from the alley. Wild Bill shot the man only to find out that it was his friend and theatre security guard Mike Williams who was only coming to Wild Bill's aid in the dangerous standoff. Wild Bill was never the same man after that. He joined up with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and five years later, was shot in the back in Deadwood, South Dakota. 

There are some that believed that Wild Bill and Phil Coe were fighting over a common love interest. Whatever the reason, the two legends of the Old West, met their untimely demise at the hands of a firearm.
Greyhound Hall of Fame Museum

Traveling to Abilene for Trails, Rails and Tales? Make sure to stop by the Greyhound Hall of Fame Museum to saw hello to Ginger. 
Stay in Abilene

Abilene Lodging Establishments

Abilene  is home to more than 200 rooms. Whether you're in town to visit the Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum, enjoy a show at the Great Plains Theatre, attend the Central Kansas Free Fair, meet with greyhound industry leaders or take a ride on the  Abilene  & Smoky Valley Railroad, we invite you to extend your visit, spend the night and enjoy all  Abilene  has to offer.
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