On the banks of the Republican
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
When settlers first came to McCook they had dugouts on the banks of the Republican. Whoever came up with the name Fairview for the early McCook settlement must have been talking about the view from those banks, a view that is drastically different today. Early pictures show a minimum of vegetation and so few trees one might think they are looking at an entirely different location. The river, which ran wide and swift in those days, did not allow for all the trees now living on its banks and in fact those trees wouldn't be in existence had the river not narrowed due to the building of the dams and control of the water flow.