Comanche the famed Civil War horse rests at KU museum
The famous Comanche, legendary mount of Maj. Myles Keogh and symbol of the Custer era, lies preserved behind glass on the KU Natural History Museum’s fifth floor. Keepers maintain the relic, lacking some coat, with a 24 hour humidifier to preserve the remaining hair and hide.
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Natural History Museum
University of Kansas
Comanche
St. Louis
7Th Cavalry
Kansas
Myles W. Keogh
Keogh
Ft. Abraham Lincoln
Missouri River
Bismarck
Dakota Territory
Great Sioux
Laramie
Alfred H. Terry
Custer
Maj
Ft. Lincoln
Dakota
Montana
Powder River Valley
Little Big Horn
Terry
Little Big Horn Valley
North American
George Custer
Myles Keogh
Theodore Goldin
Kansas City
Far West
Gustave Korn
Samuel E. Sturgis
Korn
Ft. Meade
Reasoner Report bows out as ABC reshapes Saturday air
ABC will end The Reasoner Report this Saturday replacing it with a half hour evening newscast. Harry Reasoner expects another weekly newsmagazine later but not next season. He notes preference for Sunday night air and station clearances affected the show. A Watts riot retrospective special airs on NBC Sunday exploring the 1965 violence and its aftermath with Tom Pettit and Gail Christian.
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New York
ABC
Reasoner
ABC News
William Sheehan
Fun City
CBS
60 Minutes
NBC News
Watts
World War I veterans and many guests gather at Fry home
Guests from Abilene Wichita Newton and other towns visit Gladys Fry in Sedgwick for bus trips to Palm Springs and Florida and the World War I Veterans and Auxiliary national convention. Other items note Farm Bureau youth seminar attendance and local engagements.
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W. M. Fry
Gladys Fry
Palm Springs
Florida
Jim Wood
George Powell
Fred Funston
Abilene
Lester McClure
Walton
Harry Clark
Ross Finley
Sarah Crellin
Mildred Springle
Wichita
Ester Davis
Newton
Floyd Hale
Sedgwick
Kay Reidl
Bernard Riedle
Brenda Jones
Jim Jones
Harvey County Farm Bureau
Rock Springs
Junction City
Glenn Koby
Vincennes
Ind
A. F. Koby
Timothy Willis
Dallas
Tex
Lauren Phillips
United Methodist
McLinn
Wayne Creasser
North Central Kansas Vocational School
Lyla Morehead
Norman
Okla
Lauri Lea Jones
Fred Jones
Anthony
Paul McKinley
Norris McKinley
Anthony Christian Church
Ted Werbin
Mark Werbin
Colby Community College
Paul Challender
Kansas State College
Pittsburg
Charles Swindler
Lynn
Dan Vosberg
Emmit Vosburg
R. E. Vail
Oklahoma City
Karen
Bill Smith
James Loyd
Charles Loyd
Proctor and Gamble
Kansas City
Kansas State University
Manhattan
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Steed
KU Museum
L.L. Dyche
Dyche
Ft. Riley
University
Pizza Hut
Slavin
Sun
Talawician._Dadia
TGSIS
Los Angeles
Tom Pettit
Gail Christian
Marquette Frye
Golden Circle Area News
Halstead
Ethellyn M. Huffman
O. P. Abston
Tim Olin
Columbia
San Francisco
California
Ralph L. Hall
Gainsville
Sherman Gehne
Flora Hall
Yvonne Thornhill
Marion Thornhill
Fort Worth
Emery Biggerstaff
Ruth Birch
Eva Philbrick
United Methodist Church
Cdm
Jack Salisbury
John David
Scott
J. B. Salisbury
Dahlgren
Virginia
Mable Payne
Halstead Hospital
Bob Huebert
Joan Wilder
Jim Rea
Eleanor Rea
Melvin Jewett
Michelle and
Marshall
Hugh Thomasson
Lucyle Jewett
Overland Park
Eric Sooter
29 Palms
Calif
V. L. Sooter
Lance Cpl
Tom Hueloch
Ft. Gordon
Larry Ream
Wilma Parsons
Railroad Savings & Loan
Newton, Kansas
Gwen and the Blue Stars
Laura
John
William Shatner
Keenan Wyn
Ernest Borgnine
Eddie Albert
Mann Theatres
Robert Snyder
Alco Discount Store
Kathy Laswell
Kathy
Laswell
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