Winter Lecture Series | The Lurid (and somewhat true) Tale of the Bloody Benders at Old Cowtown Museum
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Winter Lecture Series | The Lurid (and somewhat true) Tale of the Bloody Benders at Old Cowtown Museum
The Lurid (and somewhat true) Tale of the Bloody Benders
Katherine Eppich Catlin, OCM volunteer
Katherine Eppich Catlin, OCM volunteer
March 14, 2026
2- 3 p.m. in the Old Cowtown Museum’s Visitor Center
2- 3 p.m. in the Old Cowtown Museum’s Visitor Center
The Bender family moved to Labette county Kansas in 1871 and opened their homestead to travelers on the Osage Mission Trail. When the family abruptly left in 1873, neighbors were horrified to find their cellar full of blood and the garden full of corpses. Join Katherine Eppich Catlin for a telling of the historic, and highly embellished, story of the Bloody Benders.
Admission for lectures is just $3/person. Old Cowtown members and volunteers get in free!
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