Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Protection, an incorporated city of the third class in Comanche county, is located in the township of the same name on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., 10 miles southwest of Coldwater, the county seat. It has a bank, a weekly newspaper (the Post), a mill, a grain elevator, telegraph and express offices, and an international money order postoffice. The population in 1910 was 390.

Page 512 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.