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• The kids garden club will meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday. • The library board of directors will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday. • A quilting meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. A quilting weekend is planned for this weekend. • In May, teens can earn a chance to win a free specialty drink from the Cupbearer Cafe by competing in the library’s teen trivia contest. For each month of trivia teens complete, Ms. Teya will place your name in a jar. After three months, she will...

 Youre never going to find it. Not easily, anyhow. Youll have to look in places where you wouldnt think itd be, beneath, behind and beyond, left, right and in front of you. Dont give up, or youll never discover what youre looking for. As in the new book "Blood and Treasure" by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, what you seek is waiting. While todays pre-teen is often still closely watched by his parents when he leaves the house, 9-year-old Daniel Boone made his ...

True West Magazine The latest biography of Daniel Boone, plus new bios of Doc Holliday and Buffalo Bill, and histories of the Chiricahuas and California good-time girls.  Bob Drury and Tom Clavin make an excellent writing team and have found success in recent years with their creative collaboration, including their best seller The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend (2013). Most recently they have tackled together the American Revolution with Valley...

True West Magazine Phil Coe Have fun trailing the Lone Star outlaw from Texas to Kansas. Charles E. Rankin, retired editor of the University of Oklahoma Press and astute historian of key figures of the Old West, posed a question a while back when we were having lunch and discussing James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok. “What the hell was Phil Coe thinking?” We agreed on the answer. “He wasn’t.” John Wesley Hardin Coe’s decision to try to gun down Hickok on October 5, 1871, in Abilene...

The Truth About Wild West Gunfights Shutterstock By Joseph A. Williams/Jan. 22, 2021 11:53 am EDT Shootouts in the Wild West are, in the popular imagination, full of stereotypes. Many movie-goers have seen Clint Eastwood as a lone drifter coming to mete out justice through the barrel of a gun or an all star team of gunslingers defending a village ravaged by bandits. The Wild West, and in particular its shootouts, are engraved into popular culture. But are these shootouts true? ...

Missourian on “The Chosin Few.” Seventy years ago, the 15,000 men of the First Marine Division observed Thanksgiving in North Korea. Temperatures approached -38 degrees, and the Marines were about to be attacked by over 100,000 Chinese. Mr. Will’s description, although somber, was a welcome diversion from many of this  year’s political commentaries. It was also a timely reminder to show our appreciation for heroes in our community. My friend, John Scott, of Sullivan, was ...