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Change. It’s only a little six-letter word, but seems so much bigger.
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Gen. Sheridan’s Winter Campaign against the Plains Indians during the winter of 1868-69 was hailed as a grand success, but taking all those soldiers on campaign had a devastating effect on Hays City businesses.
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Return for a moment to those halcyon political years when Republicans actually had a philosophy and when Kansas actually had a U.S. Senator who was concerned about — and worked for — Kansas people.
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In May of 1868 the Kansas Pacific Railway had yet to reach the border with Colorado. The frontier towns of Ellsworth and Hays City drew rough crowds of men and women with little regard for law and order.
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The legislature returned on May 3 for our final week. While the week was long and intense, we were able to handle several issues and wrap up the session in a relatively short amount of time.
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Following the November, 1864, Sand Creek massacre, the Cheyenne-Arapaho survivors fled north to Cherry Creek (presentday St. Francis, Kan.) after taking a brief rest on the Smoky Hill River. On Cherry Creek they joined the Sioux and other bands from their own tribes in a large winter camp.
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On a fine Friday morning, May 6, 1892, John Timm stepped behind W. R. Warren and shot him in the back as Warren was preparing to enter the Sumner County Courthouse at Wellington, Kan.
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