Wildcat Lore

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…

Sedalian Joe Kouba: cotton, cows and cedar

By CPC | Aug 1, 2022

Family picture of Joe Kouba, circa 1945.

Cotton picking was more important than schooling in Denison, Texas in 1882. After Joe Kouba and twin brother Reuben finished third grade, the family farm was all that counted. Apparently…

Beeman-Duncan Ranch, Part II

By CPC | Jul 1, 2022

Born in Red Lodge, Montana in 1909 to mining industry magnate W. G. Duncan, William G. II (Bill) came to Sedalia in 1918 when his dad bought the old Beeman…

A tale of two families: the Beeman-Duncan Ranch

By CPC | Jun 1, 2022

One sees something of a mess on the southwest corner of State Highways 105 and 67 in Sedalia. Bad news. Abandoned property, right? Where are the bulldozers? Only old-timers know…

Charlie Alexander – of mice and men

By CPC | Apr 1, 2022

By Joe Gschwendtner; photo courtesy of Sedalia Firehouse Museum Charlie Alexander was one of Sedalia’s more colorful locals, born a Hoosier in 1882. His early years were filled with hardship,…

Adam Martz: One Could Get His Goat

By CPC | Mar 1, 2022

By Joe Gschwendtner; courtesy photos Adam Martz, perhaps Sedalia’s most famous bachelor, was no shrinking violet. Those who have opined on his life, alleged that he was never outsmarted. In…

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