In the old West, a saloon door swings both ways
Back in the day, saloons weren’t fancy like on Hollywood sets. Tents, lean-to’s, dugouts and caves all dotted the West...
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Bob Ford
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John Brown: From Harpers Ferry to the hangman's noose [part 2]
The South considered Brown an enormous threat. Since Nat Turner’s Virginia slave rebellion in 1831 where 50-plus individuals from white...
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Bob Ford
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John Brown: The man who started the Civil War [part one]
That led to my first question when I visited Grady Atwater, the Director of the John Brown Museum in Osawatomie, Kansas, “Was John Brown...
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Bob Ford
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New Madrid: It is your fault!
I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been able to understand the Richter Scale. Why couldn't they just give us a 1-10 on how bad it was?
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Bob Ford
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Evel Knievel: Jumping into history
The Evel Knievel Museum in Topeka will soon be on the Vegas Strip or in a theme park, it’s that good. Movies, TV shows, pinball machines...
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Bob Ford
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How a K-State watering hole in Aggieville saved a downed airman's life
On May 10, 1972, Locher and his pilot Major Roger Lodge, part of the 555th, “Triple Nickel” squadron, took off with three other F4s...
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Bob Ford
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Remembering the Cronkites' impact
It was my first day of kindergarten at Eugene Field Elementary in St. Joseph and I was pretty excited. Mom dropped me off...
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Bob Ford
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Sir Winston Churchill: The right man, just in time
Churchill climbed steadily through the ranks in his formative years at both educational and military institutions.
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Bob Ford
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The James Gang: Before Joe Walsh
We got in a car, left Corinth for the short drive to the battlefield, which was along the same trails taken by the 40,000 attacking...
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Bob Ford
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Missouri State Penitentiary: No escaping this history
Conditions were deplorable, as you can imagine, long before any cruel and unusual punishment conversation or prison reform...
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Bob Ford
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Jesse James: It's about time!
James was a product of the violence and turmoil in the mid 1800s involving this divided state. His parents moved to Clay County, Missouri...
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Bob Ford
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Kansas City: From Cowtown to Titletown
Long before the Chiefs and Royals put Kansas City on the U.S. sports map, the city was known for something else—their stockyards.
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Bob Ford
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I'm so tired of deleting SPAM; don't do that, fry it!
The genius wasn’t the ingredients, it was that the product would be cooked in the classic shaped vacuumed can and then shipped globally.
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