Wildcat Lore

The Buntains: early is as early does

By CPC | Sep 1, 2023

black and white photo of old school house

Young people of the 21st century seem to be marrying later and fretting more, enjoying the lack of early responsibilities prior to taking on life-altering commitments. A good plan if…

Lightning strikes twice

By CPC | Jul 1, 2023

…in Greenland Until it burned to the ground again on May 11th of this year, the tallest building in Greenland, Colorado was a weather-seasoned red barn that was first…

The Manharts of Sedalia: Core capital

By CPC | May 28, 2023

Writers have a tendency to hype their subjects. After all, why write about them if they were merely good? With the Sedalia Manhart Family, no doubt remains about their seminal…

The truth? Failure was the norm

By CPC | May 1, 2023

For years, many have lionized larger than life men and women who made our Douglas County great. As it should be. But the reality of pioneering outcomes in these parts…

Bluntly Speaking…

By CPC | Apr 1, 2023

One of the more vibrant Wildcat histories is that of the Blunt family. It began 60 years after we became a nation in Franklin, Missouri. After son John Elmer, “John…

Round Toppers all

By CPC | Mar 1, 2023

In writing Wildcat Lore over the years, I have sought a home base, a spiritual center of gravity and a location suitable for the “capital” of our readership in these…

Ranching to law enforcement

By CPC | Feb 1, 2023

Until appointment as Douglas County Sheriff in 1947, John L. Hammond was just a regular guy of the time. Born 1904 in Iowa and raised in Akron, Colorado, Hammond’s upbringing…

Frontiersman of the Colorado gold rush…

By CPC | Nov 1, 2022

D.C. Oakes’ book, History of the Gold Discoveries on the South Platte River, is credited with giving the account of our gold rush, the one that brought 100,000 avaricious folks…

Go forth and multiply: Heuer and Hier

By CPC | Oct 1, 2022

Pomeranian Prussians from Burow, Johann and wife Minnie (Glauss) Heuer arrived in the U.S. as immigrants in 1872. Iowa farmland looked good, so the Heuers claimed it, and they…

Last year, we featured Sedalia’s Dr. Minnie Love. She was a gifted, charitable woman and suffragette. But for some ill-advised pursuits in antisemitism, Love would have attained unadulterated fame. Her…

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