Zoe Alley and her granddaughter Betty Zoe Alley standing in a chariot used in the rodeos that took place south of Derby. Charles Rankin stands at the front of it. The chariot was in front of Chet Smith's grocery store.
On July 11, 1871, J. Hout Minnich and John Hufbauer filed a town plat for El Paso in Sedgwick County, Kansas. It established streets from Madison to Kay and from Water Street to Georgie Avenue, and business boomed.