Volume 15 , Issue 32

NW Okie's Corner

This image on the left is another view of Durango, Colorado taken the other morning from Fort Lewis College, which is up on the top of the hill, looking down over Durango, as the morning clouds were drifting through the blue skies. Need to get up that way more often for some great shots of Durango below.

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Grant County Kansas Towns & Landowners

We scanned a few pages in the "History of Grant County, Kansas," that we wrote about last week. It shows the land descriptions of the land owners and the parcels that they owned. Click on the following PDF file Grant County, KS Land Descriptions.

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Duchess of Weaselskin

The other morning NW Okie had gone into Durango, Colorado for an early doctor's appointment, via Fort Lewis College to get a shot of Durango down below [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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History of Grant County, Kansas

The History of Grant county, Kansas settlements continue this week in The OkieLeagcy Ezine, with these two maps of Kansas showing the counties at certain periods.

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Newspapers of Grant County (Kansas)

In Chapter IV of the "History of Grant County, Kansas" we find a chronology of Grant County newspapers compiled by Margaret Maxwell of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, and was published in the Ulysses News, 10 April 1941.

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Ulysses Kansas - The Garden of the Gods

This article appeared September 29, 1885, with the headlines: "Grant! The Banner County of the Southwest Looming Up In Great Shape. Ulysses, the Garden of the Gods!"

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Grant County Murder Mystery (1915)

Have you ever heard of the 1915 Nellie Byers murder mystery in Grant County, Kansas? In the Meade County News, dated Thursday, November 4, 1915, front page headlines reported: Mystery Is Unsolved." The grant county, Kansas officials were still working on the Nellie Byers murder case. Nellie Byers was murdered October 22, 1915, and there was fear that Archibald Sweet would be lynched if taken to Grant county for trial.

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