Excerpt from The Old and the New: Southwest Kansas as It Was, as It Is, as It Will Be The Arkansas Valley does not, as some persons may think, take its title from the state by that name, but rather from the river from which the state of Arkansas takes -its name. The line of the Santa Fe strikes the Arkansas Valley at Newton, in Harvey county, and from thence to the Pueblo in Colorado follows the banks of the Arkansas so closely as to rarely, if ever, lose sight of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.