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“Oh, you’re replacing Linda” was a comment I would often hear in my first year as editor/publisher of the I-R.
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At 73 years of age, rural America has been in distress nearly my entire life. For most readers, few can remember true good times other than an occasional year or two. Stringing three good years together has proven to be so rare that I truly don’t recall it happening. Stories are told of the farmer who bought an 80 or a quarter-section of land in the 1950s and paid for it with his first wheat crop. Ah, those were the days!
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As the great Civil War raged in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, on May 20, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the national Homestead Act into law. Settlement of the United States steadily marched westward since the founding of the country, pausing only for a moment as war split the nation into north and south.
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A week ago, we announced the increase in price for our singlecopy sales, as well as our subscriptions.
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“Dodge City is bracing herself up for the cattle trade. Places of refreshment are being gorgeously arrayed in new coats of paint and other ornaments to beguile the festive cowboy.” So boasted the editor in the April 28, 1877, Dodge City Times, hoping to showcase his town as the newest market for Texas cattle.
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