![]() The smallest bone became a needle and the thinnest sinew, thread. Millions of shaggy buffaloes roamed and bellowed over the prairies, and with them moved the medicine and tools to the nomadic tribes that followed the herds. Native Indian Era įor thousands of years, this has been Nature's pastureland. Pottery found in the southeast corner of the county was dated by the Smithsonian Institution at 200-800 A.D., and some found nearby is believed to be older than that. It can only be conjecture now that this might have been a prehistoric upright burial similar to others found in the region. They couldn't understand why she had been buried standing up, but they carefully collected her bones and re-buried her in the Ulysses Kansas cemetery. Workers on the railroad in 1922 thought they had found a victim of an Indian raid on the Santa Fe Trail when they uncovered a skeleton of a young woman while making the railroad cut east of Ulysses Kansas. Vast deposits of natural gas suggest that millions of years ago this was a semi-tropical region with much vegetation. Mastodon tusks and bones dated at about five million years old, petrified trees and ferns deep in the riverbanks, and even imprints of water creatures in limestone bear witness to the fact that western Kansas was not always an arid plain. In the prehistory and early history of what became Grant County, the focal points were the ancient spring on the Cimarron, now known as Wagon Bed Spring, and the trading path beside it which eventually came to be called the Santa Fe Trail. The overall width of the Cimarron River basin valley erosion in southern Grant County indicates that in historical times past it has been a raging river of significant proportions. However, rains falling west of the area tend to create flooding since some streams drop as much as eight feet per mile. The streams flow eastward and carry minimal water under normal conditions. The county is 24 miles square and a large portion of it is flat terrain, with the exception of the bluffs and breaks on the Cimarron River, which flows along the south edge of the county, the rolling country bordering the North Fork of the Cimarron River in the center of the county, and along Bear Creek in the northwestern corner. The elevation at Ulysses Kansas, the county seat in the center of the county, is 3,050 feet above sea level. It lies between the 37th and 38th parallels, and the 101st and 102nd meridians. ![]() Grant county is located in the High Plains region in the southwestern corner of Kansas, with its western edge being 27 miles from the Colorado state line, and its southern edge 26 miles from the Oklahoma border, as these perimeters are currently delineated. Its county seat and only city is Ulysses. Grant County is a county located in southwest Kansas, in the Central United States. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( March 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. ![]()
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