Abstract
During the latter years of the nineteenth and first decade of the twentieth centuries, reports of the presence of gold in Kansas occurred regularly (Fig. 1). In 1859, Oro County (later renamed Norton) was named for the Spanish word for gold because it was traversed by one of the several trails leading to the Kansas gold fields which were located in the far western Kansas Territory which later became Colorado (Rydjord 1972, p. 406). Cretaceous-age shale in Ellis, Trego and Gove counties, calcite-filled fractures in Cretaceous-age chalk in Smith County, farms in Washington county and an area south of Galena in Cherokee County were among the more publicized locations for gold (Haworth 1903, p. 16-19).
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