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In a previous adventure on The Way West, a young Phillipe St. George Cooke arrived at Cantonment Leavenworth, Fort Leavenworth’s earliest designation, in the spring of 1829. 2nd Lt. Cooke was with four companies of the 6th Infantry Regiment under the command of Maj. Bennett Riley. Within two weeks, he took the field in a campaign to protect freighting companies from marauding Pawnees along the Santa Fe Trail. The campaign kept the troops in the field throughout the summer.
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The scene that confronted Maj. Thomas I. McKenny the evening of June 9, 1864, was heightened by the eerie silence of desolation. Burned out log shelters and looted dugout dwellings told a story of failure.
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Capt. Jack Harvey is not well known today, but in the late 1860s, his every move was followed by the general public. He and Wild Bill Hickok had cut their teeth on death and daring in Missouri and Arkansas during the Civil War.
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A few weeks ago at the Grow Ellsworth County Annual Meeting, Marci Penner was telling those gathered that the upcoming Big Kansas Road Trip is an opportunity for city folks to come experience rural life. She used the example that some people have never seen a cow before.
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The early history of Kansas is filled with enough daring and intrigue to fill a goodsized library, and yet we know so little about those who rode the dark trails of destiny and the remarkable events that drew them to live extraordinary lives.
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Photojournalism was my path into the newspaper world.
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