Recently, I was driving past a mental health clinic in Salina and saw a vehicle I recognized. It was of an individual in some of my social circles.
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With the coming of spring, renewed activity returned to the cattle frontier from Texas to Kansas and beyond. In the early years of trailing cattle, big rangy steers with horns that spread across the horizon were a common sight.
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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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