Museum of the Great Plains - Leoti, Kansas The items on exhibit at the Museum of the Great Plains in Leoti, Kansas are in better condition than at many local museums. The museum has a replica of an Old West town. One of the displays which interested me the most is devoted to the battle which determined what community (Leoti or Coronado) would became the county seat for Wichita County, Kansas. Western Kansas had many violent county seat selections and this one has been called "the bloodiest county seat fight in the state of Kansas." There were fortunes to be made by the property owners in the community which won, which was Leoti. There is also information about Steve Tasker, who was born in Smith Center, Kansas and went to High School in Leoti. He played in the National Football League for the Houston Oilers (1985–1986) and Buffalo Bills (1986–1997), and his now a sports reporter. I particularly liked the small room tucked in the back which had displays of local fossils which were collected by field paleontologist Marion Bonner. The re is also a mural painted by his son, Chuck Bonner, who has the great Keystone Gallery.
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