| As seen in the Stevens County history book, as well as Legends of America: http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ks-stevenscountywar.html "I do not need to swear to the truthfulness of my story, for I have already done so in many courts and under the cross-examination of some of the ablest lawyers in the country. I have repeated the story on the stand in a criminal case which cost the United States government more money than it has ever expended in any similar trial, unless perhaps that having to do with the assassination of President Lincoln. I can say that I know what it is to be murdered. |
Kansas has more than 6,000 dead towns. Here are a few of them I traveled to as a Hutchinson News journalist.
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Woodsdale: Survivor Herbert Tonney's first-hand account of the Hay Meadow Massacre
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county seat war,
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