Editing Sublette, Kansas (section)

==History==
Sublette was founded in 1912.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ | title=Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society | publisher=Kansas State Printing Plant | author=Kansas State Historical Society | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ/page/n313 206]}}</ref> It was named for [[William Sublette|William Lewis Sublette]], a [[French Huguenot]] who was a partner in the [[Rocky Mountain Fur Company]]. Sublette was a [[mountain man]], fur trapper and pioneer who blazed a trail through the area and was known by the local natives as "Cut Face".<ref>Kansas Place-Names, John Rydjord, University of Oklahoma Press, 1972, p. 121 {{ISBN|0-8061-0994-7}}.</ref>

The first post office in Sublette was established in January 1913.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:HS |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828–1961 (archived) |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=June 11, 2014 |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009125120/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:HS |archivedate=October 9, 2013 }}</ref>
''Circa'' 1913, the population of Sublette was around 270. The first baby born in Sublette was named Gladys Sublette Boaz, delivered by [[Dr. Loring Minor]]. Sublette was once a larger town called [[Santa_Fe,_Kansas|Santa Fe]]; however,  the people of Santa Fe wanted to move closer to a railroad and set up a settlement called Sublette.