This month’s post is a little different than my normal history stuff. That said, there is a history component to the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum in Chanute, KS, which my daughter Lexi and I visited in March. The website, www.safarimuseum.com tells you that the museum is ranked as the #1 museum in Kansas […]
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Council Grove, KS: Kanza (Kaw) Indians, Sante Fe Trail, Oldest Restaurant in Kansas This month’s post takes us to Council Grove, Kansas. Council Grove is a rare city in KS in that there are multiple historic sites to be seen in this small town, population 2,111. For someone interested in history, this is great little town
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This month’s post was originally published in the Johnson County Gazette in October of 2021. This month’s article is a bit of a departure from the Johnson County history that this column usually covers. I felt that this topic was so interesting that I had to cover it in this month’s column. The title of
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I wanted to post an update to let everyone know how the Amarugia book was coming and what I have been working on. Over the holidays I had several days off and made a great deal of progress on the book. I feel like I have gathered and deciphered most of the material gathered from
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During the Bleeding Kansas era and continuing until the end of the Civil War, James Henry Lane was both a Kansas hero and the most hated man in Missouri. Lane came to Kansas shortly after the territory was opened by the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1954. Settling in the abolitionist town of Lawrence, Lane soon
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This month’s post is going to be a review of the movie “Killers of the Flower Moon”. The movie, which is currently in theaters, is directed by Martin Scorsese and stars several A-list actors including Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro. The movie is based on a true story and a book of the same title,
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As I promised in the October post, this post returns us back to a popular Missouri resident, Jesse James. This month I took a trip up I-29 to St. Joseph Missouri where I visited the house where Jesse James was murdered by Bob Ford. I’ve mentioned before that this topic is personal to me because
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This month I took a short, hour and half drive out to Wamego, Kansas. Wamego is a town of 4,000 about a hour northwest of Topeka. The town is the home of the Wizard of Oz Museum and has totally embraced the notion that they are center of the Wizard of Oz universe. But first
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If you don’t know me personally or haven’t followed me long enough to figure this out, I am a God-fearing, flag waving, proud to be an American man. When the national anthem is playing, I will be standing at attention with my hand over my heart to honor the greatest country on earth. It is
I have a bit of personal attachment to the Jesse James story because the house we built in Richmond, Missouri backed up to the cemetery where Robert (Bob) Ford was buried. Ford was the man who shot Jesse James in St Joseph. His tombstone reads, Robert Ford, “The man who shot Jesse James”. While in
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