Caldwell, the Border Queen, has seen wild days as a cowtown beside the Chisholm trail, a brief period of booming times during the Oklahoma Land Rush days, and quiet prosperity based on the vast grainfields of Sumner County. Ghostly silhouettes on a hillside south of town give a feeling of the vast herds that moved through here in the nineteenth century.

South of town, a pink granite marker tells the story of the "real" Cherokee Strip and gives another view of the Border Queen.

A rich set of historical markers in downtown Caldwell provides an unusually complete view of a town's past:

The Historic Marker Project   The Southwestern Hotel   The Prohibition Movement   The Native Stone Building   The Legend of Mount Lookout   The Last Chance Saloon   The Stock Exchange Bank   The Talbot Gang Shootout

Marshal Henry Newton Brown   The Leland Hotel   Shooting up Main Street   Murder of Marshal George Flatt   Murder of Marshal George S. Brown   The Grand Opera House   The Last Land Rush