Believe it or not, one of the staples of our everyday lives was invented and first sold right here in our area. Sliced bread was first made and sold in Chillicothe, Missouri in 1928 by a struggling bakery, known as the Chillicothe Baking Company, which was owned by Frank Bench. Bench began selling the innovative […]
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This month has been a busy one with the release of my new book, The Kingdom of Amarugia, (now available for pre-order at www.jonathanjonesauthor.com) Instead of a regular post, I’m going to do a movie review. Over the fourth of July weekend, I went to see Kevin Costner’s Horizon, An American Epic. It was awesome.
This month’s post is going to take us a little further afield to the location of the Siege of Vicksburg. Jill and I took a trip last month to Vicksburg, Mississippi, to see the location of one of the most important events in the war. For us this was just a long weekend. We stopped
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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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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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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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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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Remembering the 4th grade A significant portion of my readers are, or were, Missouri residents. I think that most of these people remember the 4th grade Missouri History unit. Part of that unit was usually a field trip to Fort Osage. Even though we have all been there, myself included, I bet only a few
I’m thrilled to show everyone the cover for my next book, “Hippie War: Battle for the Harrisonville Square”. For those of you who enjoy seeing how the sausage is made, I started with the idea shown in the image with the blank back cover. That eventually moved over time to the final version which is the
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The Kingdom of Amarugia was located in an area in Cass County between Freeman, Archie, and Drexel. Much of the land is now a conservation area containing a 45-acre, man-made lake which was finished in 1987. The strange part of the story is that this “Kingdom of Amarugia” created its own government in the early
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