Editing Baxter Springs, Kansas (section)

=== Resort town ===
After [[railroads]] were constructed from the North into [[Texas]] later in the century, cattlemen no longer needed to conduct the cattle drives, or to use Baxter Springs as a way station to markets. The first railroad to enter Texas from the north, completed in 1872, was the {{nowrap|[[Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad]]}}<ref>{{cite web|author=Donovan L. Hofsommer |url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqm08 |title=Handbook of Texas Online – Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad |publisher=Tshaonline.org |access-date=April 11, 2010}}</ref> As ranchers started shipping their beef directly from Texas, business in Baxter Springs and other cow towns fell off sharply.<ref name="History" />

However, the Baxter spring developed a [[Medicinal spring|medicinal]] reputation.  The town became a [[destination resort]] around the springs for travelers brought by the new railroad.<ref name="R66">{{cite book |last=Wallis |first=Michael |title=Route 66: The Mother Road |publisher=St. Martin's |isbn=0-312-08285-1 |location=New York |page=83}}</ref>