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Happy National Cooperatives Month! As a cooperative communicator, October is full of educating people about and emphasizing the benefits of cooperative membership.
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William Becknell is famously remembered for blazing the Santa Fe Trail in 1821. Of course, there is always more to the story. He was actually fairly well-known before going to Santa Fe, and as in so many success stories Becknell had experienced both victory and failure in his endeavors.
Read moreThe calendar has turned to fall, and the weather is slowly following suit. Harvest is underway with combines rolling through fields and semis hauling grain to elevators and on-farm bins. There’s more of those bins and semis now than ever before because there’s more grain.
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Writing from Ellsworth, Kan., dateline Oct. 4, 1868, a Leavenworth Times correspondent who signed himself as “B” described his trip from Fort Reynolds, Colo., to Hays, Kan.
Read moreFrom Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman to COVID-19
Read moreI’m terrible with follow up; just ask any of my friends. But this time, it’s more important than usual I stick to my plan.
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James Ohio Pattie published, in 1833, a memoir of his travels with his father, Sylvester Pattie, over the plains west of the Missouri River. Their adventures began once they reached Nebraska’s Platte River in July of 1825. The Pawnee villages along the Platte welcomed them with celebration and trade.
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