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In the later part of the 19th Century, a conflict arose at the southern Kansas border that had not been seen in any other part of the west. The seed of the dispute germinated through a land grab movement by settlers who coveted the fertile Cherokee land south of Kansas. They were especially irked by a grazing lease arrangement cattlemen had negotiated with the Cherokee Nation As early as 1878, cattlemen maintained lease arrangements with the established sovereign government of the Cherokee Nation, whereby large tracts of the reservation were grazed at a per head rate.
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Mineral spring waters were once one of the most popular treatments for human ailment. A particular cluster of springs in south central Kansas was long known to the Indians for its healing waters.
Read morePurchase of a new C-arm and an EKG were discussed Monday afternoon during the Ellsworth County Medical Center board of directors.
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Frontier Kansas was a wild, exciting place. The frontier was certainly no place for a “pilgrim,” inexperienced in the ways of violent men on edge of civilization.
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Defugalty is one of my favorite words. You may not find it in the dictionary, but my mother used it for particularly disagreeable situations, mostly centered around an argument or a general confusion of one kind or another. That would certainly describe the circumstances that occurred on a summer’s eve in old Dodge City.
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