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Top 10 True Western Towns of 2009

by | Jan 1, 2009 | Travel & Preservation

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10. WICHITA, KS When a town is known today as the “Air Capital of the World”—Wichita is the home of airplane manufacturers Boeing, Cessna, Raytheon and Bombardier Aerospace’s Learjet—you might think that it would have cast aside its heritage. Not so with this major cowtown—pop. 589,000—located on the historic Chisholm Trail. The Old Cowtown Museum re-creates the town in its 1865-1880 time period, featuring the city’s first log home, the home of the founder of the city’s news


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