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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 libraryâs teen trivia contest. For each month of trivia teens complete, Ms. Teya will place your name in a jar. After three months, she will draw a name. ⢠The next Terra Essential Oils class will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 19...
 You're never going to find it. Not easily, anyhow. You'll have to look in places where you wouldn't think it'd be, beneath, behind and beyond, left, right and in front of you. Don't give up, or you'll never discover what you're looking for. As in the new book "Blood and Treasure" by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, what you seek is waiting. While today's pre-teen is often still closely watched by his parents when he leaves the house, 9-year-old Daniel Boone made his own weapon. Tasked with watching his father's cattle, Boone would sneak off into the woods t...
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 Forge (2018) and World War II with Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission That Changed the War in the P...
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, Kansas, might not have been the wisest choice for a 32-year-old, but it turned out to be a pretty ...