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==History== Bogue was established in 1888 as a railroad town.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hwy24.org/uploads/2/6/1/8/26189167/28_town_names.pdf | title=Origin of Town Names | publisher=Solomon Valley Highway 24 Heritage Alliance | accessdate=9 April 2018 | pages=5}}</ref> It originally was named '''Wild Horse''' but the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] changed the name to honor Virgil Gay Bogue, a civil engineer working for the railroad and the founder of the city.<ref name=Rydjord>{{cite book|last=Rydjord|first=John|title=Kansas Place-Names|year=1972|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press, Norman|page=452|isbn=0-8061-0994-7}}</ref><ref name=Bogue>{{cite web|last=LeSage|first=Alan|title=History of Bogue|url=http://www.skyways.org/orgs/svha/history/towns/bogue.htm|work=Bogue, Kansas|publisher=Solomon Valley/Highway 24 Heritage Alliance|accessdate=5 April 2012}}</ref> The first post office in Bogue was established in September 1888. It was moved from Fagan.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:GH |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828β1961 (archived) |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=10 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009132051/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county%3AGH |archivedate=October 9, 2013 }}</ref>
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