General Marmaduke News Today

As an old western observer, I probably have watched far more gun duels than is healthy for any individual. Most of those, including my favorite, "Gunsmoke," usually included a face-off between two antagonists out to wreck revenge on each other. Perhaps the prime entertainment in our lifetime, duels were once a matter of honor and occurred all too frequently in our past.

Hi, rambling friends. Lets start this new year with a story that is part of our local history. Lets step back in time to March of 1981. I had a 1980 Ford four-wheel pickup with deep mud logger tires that I thought could go through anything. One day, on my way home, I decided to take a different route to enjoy the country roads. I was on Sand Springs Road and went to the bottom of a hill, and suddenly, I was confronted with a challenge I was unsure about. The old country road was underwater for a...