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Sometimes, life is heavy. A couple of months ago, I was in the throes of motherhood, having a newborn baby as well as three other little ones. Trying to balance my career, household duties, being a mother and a wife and helping on the farm after my maternity leave quickly became overwhelming. To put it lightly, I was exhausted.
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The morning of June 9, 1867, Michael O’Marrah was found “in a dying condition” on a north Wyandotte street.
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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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