For most of 1871, he was Marshal of Abilene, Kansas, one of the wildest towns in the Wild West
Such was the Abilene that Joseph G. McCoy found when he came west on the 
... with Moon's Frontier store and Old Man Jones' saloon, made up the nucleus of 
..... On May 1, 1871, a comprehensive plan of licensing all business houses in... [DOC] [TLE] 1867  1871 | Old Abilene Town [PAR] In 1867 when Joseph McCoy came to Kansas looking for a suitable place to 
construct a stockyards.