Kathleen Holt would like to say that she skateboarded in front of the 1886 hotel, as she was growing up in Cimarron, Kansas, some 50 years ago, and dreamed of owning the precious place where, as she puts it, “cowboys went to get the heck out of Dodge.” Oh, she did skateboard in front of this Santa Fe Trail hotel that gave comfort to gunfighters Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp and Luke Short, but the tree roots that grew through the sidewalk irritated her. No, she came to this hotel “kicking a


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