Outlaws could commit crimes in Kansas or Texas, ride across the border and live protected from the laws.

Gate and Neutral City (located approximately five miles west) had carved a niche in badman history with hot lead.

Between Gate and Neutral City, (the most wicked towns in No Man's Land) three trees grew, one of which had a low hanging branch.

During the volcanic age, immense quantities of materials were thrown out of these volcanoes and the ash or dust was carried by the prevailing winds and collected in depressions or drifts in the same manner that snow does.

According to a certified analysis the Gate deposit is composed of 73% silica, 14% alumina and smaller amounts of iron, calcium, magnesium and alkalis.

One man told about the battle he was a part of that drove the renegade of Indians back to the reservation they were assigned.

By this time Gate had two livery stables, a hotel, barber shop, pool hall, harness shop, grocery, real estate, hardware stores, bank, doctor's office and drug store, Masonic hall, numerous churches, furniture store, funeral home, bakery, U.S. Land office, millinery shop, lumber yard, two black smiths and a feed mill.

[8] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2), all land.