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During the autumn of 1859 the Comanches were raiding ranches in eastern New Mexico. The military responded with expeditions to find and punish them, but they could not be found.

State Sen. Barbara Bollier spoke strongly in favor of principled representation at Josh Svaty’s Free State Farm last Saturday.

If I were putting together a Sunday Drive Edition of a scavenger hunt, it would most certainly include the “COOP” emblem. You probably know what one I mean: an outline of a red circle and blue circle overlapping and the letters C-O-O-P stamped in the middle.

Chester Thomas and Lydia Steevens — her family retained the original double e in the name — were married in 1856. He was 46. She was 23. The couple moved to Kansas in 1858. By the time Mrs. Thomas received an urgent message from her husband, Capt.

Anyone who has been out and about lately probably recognizes the sign at the bottom of this editorial. The signs can be found at the J.H. Robbins Memorial Library. At the splash pad in Preisker Park. And in front of dozens of other places — not just here but across Ellsworth County.

Hillary Clinton had her deplorables and they may well have cost her the presidency in 2016, because of the disrespect she showed them. If that is in fact true, then Donald Trump should lose in a landslide. Donald Trump has his disposables whom he disrespects daily.

In the late 1700s French trader Pierre Chouteau encouraged a large portion of the Osage people to move into today’s Oklahoma valleys of the Arkansas, Verdigris, and Neosho Rivers. By that time the greater Chouteau family had been trading on the frontier with various tribes for almost 100 years.

“Justice Ginsburg represented the best of the American tradition, the best of a devotion to the American experiment ... She believed in the journey toward a more perfect union.

You might think that excessive imprisonment of a nation’s people would be something found in countries led by totalitarian regimes with atrocious human rights records. Places like China, Russia, Yemen or Venezuela. So which of these countries has the highest incarceration rate in the world?

Operating out of Independence, Mo., Waldo, Hall and Company began providing stagecoach service in 1850 to and from Santa Fe, in addition to carrying the mail on a monthly basis. With security in mind the coaches often passed over the trail two coaches at a time.