Author's NoteGarden City, Kansas is a real town—a cattle town on the High Plains of Western Kansas, with brick streets downtown, a few stunted trees, and a wind that never stops blowing. Nowadays, it's an interesting mixture of quaint and modern, but back in 1889, it was a new town, only a couple of decades old. The timeline I've created deviates a bit from historical accuracy (the town actually sprang from one man's vision in the 1870s rather than being incorporated from an existing settlement), but I've worked hard to maintain the accuracy other than that.
And the Fulton family really was the foundation of the town. Fulton Street is still a main commercial thoroughfare named in their honor. However, the Fultons mentioned in this story are my own creation, not based on the historical fam
