Saddlebred Horses for Sale near Wilson, KS

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For Sale: 1989 Sorrel Saddlebred Quarter Horse mare. Ruby is a sweet & lo..
Great Bend, Kansas
Sorrel
Saddlebred
Mare
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Great Bend, KS
KS
$800
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About Wilson, KS

The Butterfield Overland Despatch built a stagecoach station one-half mile south of present-day Wilson in 1865. Three years later, the Kansas Pacific Railway built Wilson Station, named after the surrounding township, at the modern town site. In 1871, The National Land Company surveyed and planned the first town there, naming it Bosland in the hopes of attracting the cattle trade. Settlers from Pennsylvania, including some Pennsylvania Dutch, arrived over the following year. The settlement never became a center of the cattle trade, however, and continued to be known as Wilson, a name the U.S.