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Saline County residents shared personal stories in a new book compiled and published by Salina Arts and Humanities.

Several of these recommended books on the Chisholm Trail are available for free online. Writers and readers can’t get enough stories about those 1800s cattle trails. As you read this, I am out of the office. Yet I did not forget the statewide readership of the Think, Texas newsletter and column. In my absence, allow me to offer an Aug. 20, 2017, column about the Chisholm Trail written by my colleague Glen Seeber of the Oklahoman, a sibling Gannett newspaper in the USA Today Network. While there are many books about the cattle drives of the late 1800s and the mostly young men who faced the d...

Several of these recommended books on the Chisholm Trail are available for free online. Writers and readers can’t get enough stories about those 1800s cattle trails. As you read this, I am out of the office. Yet I did not forget the statewide readership of the Think, Texas newsletter and column. In my absence, allow me to offer an Aug. 20, 2017, column about the Chisholm Trail written by my colleague Glen Seeber of the Oklahoman, a sibling Gannett newspaper in the USA Today Network. While there are many books about the cattle drives of the late 1800s and the mostly young men who faced the d...

After telling the populace they were purloining the goods for the Confederacy, they rode away. Suspecting the men were nothing more than common thieves, a local posse was formed to track them down, and a messenger was sent to Fort Riley to enlist the military's help to retrieve their possessions.  The unanswered question was, did soldiers really come to help the Salina townspeople? And were the bushwhackers ever caught?  Local writer and historian Judy Magnuson Lilly was intrigued enough to research and write about this little-known piece of Salina history.  “I would see this story re...