Harper County was founded by H. E. Jessup; John Lamar; M. Devoure; J. B. Glenn; G. M.Goss; S. S. Gideon; and G. W.
 Francis, and contains the cities of Anthony, Attica, Waldron, Bluff City, Freeport, Danville and Harper.

 The county was first organized on August 20, 1873, but was determined fraudulent by the Attorney General as there was no
 population and the county was disorganized. It was reorganized on August 26, 1878. The story is told that during the
 fraudulent organization of the county, that early settlers near Bluff Creek counted buffalo bones to represent families, and
 petitioned for Bluff City to be the temporary county seat on that basis. The county was named for Marion Harper, a sergeant
 in the Second Kansas Cavalry