There were still plenty of hours of daylight and, despite his recent hightailing out of town, I decided to drop by Richard Chezik’s place to see if he’d left any hints as to whom he’d done the bidding for at the auction. He lived on Strawberry Hill across the Kaw River in Kansas City, Kansas, in ...
In the late 1840s the settlement teemed with migrants escaping foreclosures and lost opportunities in the Eastern cities. But for these intrepid dreamers it was only a way station, a starting point where they hitched their dreams and sole possessions to oxen, horses, and mules for the great treks...