DORSEY

NAME: DORSEY COUNTY: COLFAX ROADS: 2WD GRID: 3 CLIMATE: DO NOT FRET ABOUT THE WEATHER BEST TIME TO VISIT: ANY TIME

COMMENTS: DORSEY. Post office 1879/ intermittently to 1912. REMAINS: Inquire locally

DORSEY. 1 mi W of Canadian Red River near Eagle Rock Mts. Named for Dorsey Lake, a small lake 2 mi S of Koehler Junction, on Crow Creek Flats. Named for Stephen W Dorsey, U S Senator from Arkansas, co owner of the Ingersol-Dorsey -Alley Ranch. When Ingersoll successfully defended Dorsey in a suit over govermnent mail contracts, Dorsey paid him with 5000 acres of land and some cattle. Dorsey lived at one time at Chico.Now isn't that interesting? Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter

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