Abilene has finished second in the 2025 poll of the 10BEST Readers Choice Award for Historic Small Towns by USA Today, its seventh straight appearance ...

A small town in central Kansas was once again named one of the top “true Western” towns in the United States. Abilene, a town of more than 6,000 that’s two hours west of Kansas City, took ...

Niagara Falls is where Wild Bill Hickok dared to be an actor ... He kept peace in Hays City and Abilene, Kansas and killed four men in the line of duty. He was a notoriously trigger happy sheriff ...