Kansas author interweaves populist movement with homesteading
The daily struggle of homesteading in that milieu is drama enough, but he also gave us a “front row seat” to the People’s Party era.
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Museum resources are more important than many realize, real treasures
Lyn Fenwick St. John News Recently, I was invited to speak at the Stafford County History Museum, where I did so much research for my book, "Prairie Bachelor, The Story of a Kansas Homesteader and the Populist Movement." I chose for the theme of my talk, 'The importance of Small Town Museums.' Michael Hathaway and the board members arranged a wonderful afternoon, displaying some of the reference sources at their museum that I used in my research. Particularly important was having access to the actual populist newspapers from that era. Part of that was seeing the political cartoons, ...
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