State could acquire three Missouri toll bridges
Legislation would let the State Highway Commission buy or donate to take over toll bridges at St. Charles Jefferson City and Kansas City across the Missouri River. The plan estimates a $1 750 000 purchase, with tolls continued until half the price is recouped, while traffic shifts to state highways.
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Rescuers Find Collins Dead in Sand Cave
Floyd Collins perished in a 180 foot sink hole at Sand cave near Cave City Kentucky. Rescuers including Homer Collins and Johnny Gerald battled rock, mud, and cave-ins for days before a shaft rescue began.
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Lee Collins
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Mr. Doyle
Johnny Gerald
Ben Wells
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Ogden College
William Burke Miller
Louisville
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Gerald
Kentucky
Fort Robinson Late 19th Century Sioux War Pivot
Fort Robinson near the Red Cloud agency Nebraska played a pivotal role in the Sioux and Cheyenne conflicts of 1876 77. General Crook Mackenzie and Crazy Horse figure in dramatic episodes. the fort’s fate mirrored the decline of the Cheyenne and Sioux as warrior peoples.
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Powder River
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Oglalas
Dull Kenife
Oklahoma
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California Joe
Baptiste Garnier
Little Bat
Crazy Horse
General Custer
Little Big Horn
Trans- Missouri
Romantic Belle Point and Prosaic Fort Smith History
The piece recounts Fort Smith Arkansas origins from early French explorers naming Belle Point, the 1817 site selection by Maj. Stephen Long, and the 1820s to 1840s fortifications led by Gen Zachary Taylor. It notes the elopement lore of Sarah Knox Taylor and Jefferson Davis, the 300 acre reservation, a jail basement used as a U S district court, and the 1842 incorporation of Fort Smith with government lands becoming a public park in 1884.
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Company
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Bradford
Matthew Arbuckle
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W. G. Belknap
Zachary Taylor
Sarah Knox Taylor
Jefferson Davis
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L C. Parker
Indian Territory
Judge Parker
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