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El Quartelejo, in Scott County State Park three miles northwest, was the only known Indian pueblo in Kansas. About 1650, it is believed, Taos Indians migrated there to escape Spanish oppression, and later the Spanish governor persuaded them to return to New Mexico. In 1706 Juan Uribarri formally took possession of the valley for Spain and called it San Luis province. During the frontier struggles of the 1700's, Spaniards and Frenchmen alternately occupied the outpost. Drifting soil eventually buried the structure, and in 1898 the ruins were excavated, revealing a typical pueblo with traces of an irrigation system. Near there in 1878, Col. William H. Lewis, commanding troops from Fort Dodge, was fatally wounded in a battle with Chief Dull Knife and his Northern Cheyennes, becoming the last army officer killed by Indians in Kansas.
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