Lyon County’s earliest settlers were no different. In the mid-1800s, the only White residents in this part of the country were (supposed to be) missionaries and government-licensed traders along the wagon trails. “Traveling over the prairie without a road, save a dim wagon track in the grass, through a county as yet unnamed and over the divide between two nameless creeks, we were all watching to see the Neosho timber.” - John Van Gundy, Reminiscences of Frontier Life on the Upper Neosho in 18 Map excerpt taken from the General Highway Map for Lyon County Kansas, by the Kansas Department of Transportation, September 2007. The area circled in red indicates the likely location of the Columbia town site.
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