#leavenworth kansas

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“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.” - Unknown

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leavenworth kansas

(again because i miss kansas)

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[We opened in Lenexa, Kansas, we have Grinders Stonewall, then we opened up in Leavenworth, Kansas, yet, books, indeed, were his sole luxuries, and we now have our food truck.]

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Haunted States of America: Kansas

Ghost Stories of Fort Leavenworth (1988) by the Musettes Fort Leavenworth Museum, illustrated by Craig Streeter

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is an active army installation that was established in 1827. It protected the Santa Fe Trail and areas near the Missouri River as an important part of the westward expansion of the United States. Today, it is the oldest active Army post west of the Mississippi River.

Ghost Stories of Fort Leavenworth was written by the Musettes of the Fort Leavenworth Museum, a museum advocacy group, in an attempt to document stories of the many ghosts in and around Fort Leavenworth, which include:

A tea party held at 624 Scott Avenue

Faces seen in the fire and smoke of hearths

Ghosts of men who were executed at the US Disciplinary Barracks, a military prison

General George Armstrong Custer

Fort Leavenworth currently does ghost tours in and around the Fort if you live nearby and want to learn more. The museum is now called the Frontier Army Museum.

The Fort Leavenworth Historical Society also has a book titled The Haunted Houses of Fort Leavenworth (1995) by John Reichley. If you're interested in more stories about haunted Kansas, check out the aptly titled Haunted Kansas: Ghost Stories and Other Eerie Tales (1997) by Lisa Hefner Heitz in our collection.

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

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Northbound UP 844 - UP 1982 and The Little Rock Express Train at Leavenworth, KS by Zach Pumphery Via Flickr: UP 844 and UP 1982 head north through Leavenworth during 844's first ever trip up the UP Falls City Sub. next to the rising Missouri River, the cause of the 2 day acceleration of the return trip's schedule with The Little Rock Express UP Train SKCOM 11. This was during the UP Great Excursion Adventure. This also wound up being the last time I'd see the train in the sun today. Shot on black and white print film.

Locomotives: UP 844, UP 1982

6-11-11 Leavenworth, KS

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"MAN HELD FOR KNOWLEDGE OF PRISON BREAK," Iola Register. March 26, 1932. Page 1. ---- H. Mack Said By Boston Authorities To Know of Leavenworth Riot ---- BABY CLUE SCOUTED ---- Police Think Prisoner Knows Nothing About Lindy Jr. ---- Boston, Mar. 26. (AP) - Belief that Harr W. Mack of Hartford, Conn. in custody here after extradition from Canada in connection with an automobile case, knows more about the Leavenworth prison riot last year than about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, was expressed by federal officers who questioned him today.

Mack told police, after his return from Canada, that he could find the missing baby if he could have a half hour's talk with Betty Gow, its nurse. He also said he could give important information about the prison riot.

Deposition Obtained. Federal officers questioned him at length and obtained a 32-page deposition concerning the riot. Although this was not made public, the officers said they believed that Mack knew considerable about who smuggled the ammunition used by the rioters into the prison. Either Mack was the man, they believed, or knew the person who took the weapons into the penitentiary. The officers, however, were skeptical of any knowledge which Mack professed of the Lindbergh case. They believed this claim was merely the result of his having come originally from the same town in Scotland from which the Lindbergh nurse came.

Purple Gang Indicated. Mack claimed that his information about the kidnapping case came from members of the notorious "Purple" gang of Detroit, with whom he was supposed to have served time in a jail in Windsor, Canada.

The man was extradited from Canada on a charge of jumping bail of $500 under which he was being held after being convicted of larceny. The federal officials, after questioning him today, filed a retainer to prevent his release from custody in the event he should be freed of the other charge.

New Jersey officials were notified of his claims in connection with the kidnaping but no officers arrived today to question him and it was not believed that any credence would be placed in his story.

Topeka, Mar. 26. (AP) - Dan B. Cowie, Assistant United States district attorney for Kansas, said today that Harry W. Mack, under arrest in Boston, was being detained as a witness for the government in the case growing out of the bloody break from Leavenworth federal penitentiary last December in which three convicts lost their lives.

Cowie said Mack had been in jail at Windsor, Canada, with Harold Fontaine, former Leavenworth convict, who is under indictment for the alleged smuggling of firearms and dynamite into the penitentiary.

Talk with Fontaine. The assistant district attorney said Mack was not under investigation in connection with the penitentiary break but that he had talked with Fontaine. Cowie declined to reveal the nature of the information Mack is supposed to have obtained from Fontaine.

According to Cowie, the two men were together in the Windsor jail last February. Cowie said Mack, a native of Scotland, was awaiting deportation by Canadian authorities at the time.

Commenting upon Mack's claim to have obtained information about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping from members of the "Purple" gang of Detroit, Cowie said Fontaine had some "connections" in Detroit. Cowie said, however, he had no definite information as to just what the "connections" were. He said Fontaine was released from the Leavenworth penitentiary last November after serving sentence for smuggling aliens from Windsor to Detroit.

Extradition Sought. Fontaine's extradition is to be sought by the government at a hearing in Windsor next Tuesday. Four Leavenworth convicts are under indictment in connection with the sensational break, in which three others lost their lives and T. В. White, former warden, held as hostage, was shot in the arm.

V. A. Carlson, former guard, also is under indictment on a charge of smuggling money into the penitentiary. Federal authorities have declined to reveal whether he is alleged to have any connection with the break.

The men are expected to be tried next month either in Topeka or Kansas City, Kas.

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American Auto Trail-Lewis and Clark Trail (Leavenworth KS to Lewis and Clark Village MO)

American Auto Trail-Lewis and Clark Trail (Leavenworth KS to Lewis and Clark Village MO) https://youtu.be/AOJfYYt_Jjo This American auto trail explores a section of the Lewis and Clark Trail, from Leavenworth, Kansas, to Lewis and Clark Village, Missouri.

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Lawrence James DeVol - One of the Depression's Most Wanted (and most vicious).

Lawrence ‘Larry the Chopper’ DeVol is less well-known than, say ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd or ‘Baby Face’ Nelson, but was no less violent or vicious. Absolutely cold-blooded and criminally-minded, DeVol murdered at least eleven people, probably more. Not content with the murders of at least five citizenss, he murdered at least six law enforcement officers in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. Any of…

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“The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” - Unknown

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Southbound UP Manifest Train at Leavenworth, KS by Zach Pumphery Via Flickr: The solo engine on today's Atchison, KS-Kansas City, MO manifest is half of the SD70M's painted for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. With 64 cars, UP Train MATKC 30 passes through Leavenworth next to the Missouri River on the UP Falls City Sub. They'll go down to Wolcott and do a 1 car rear end setout after running around their train.

Locomotive: UP 2002

4-30-18 Leavenworth, KS

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"DESPERADO IS STILL AT LARGE," Sioux City Journal. December 14, 1931. Page 3. ---- Prison Guards Give Up Organized Search for Convict ---- Leavenworth, Kan.-(AP) - A 65- year-old desperado, only one of seven Leavenworth prison convicts who made good an escape from posses that brought back three dead, one wounded and two unscathed, was still at large Sunday.

Penitentiary guards have given up organized search for Earl Thayer, who was serving a 25-year sentence for an Oklahoma mail train robbery when he and the other six prisoners made a sensational dash for liberty Friday with Warden White as hostage.

Guards dispatched to investigate a report that a man had stayed Fri- day night in a vacant farm house near Winchester, Kan., were called back to the prison Saturday night, and Sunday the sabbath quiet prevailed.

No Trace of Thayer Fred Zerbst, now in charge of both prisons while Warden White lies in a hospital recuperating from arm wounds inflicted by a convict, said guards would be sen out again if a warm trail was picked up.

Prison officials said not a trace of Thayer was found Saturday. The last indication of his presence in the vicinity of the Emerson Salsbury farmhouse, eight miles west of here, where three prisoners died apparently from bullet wounds inflicted by one of their number, was his coat found by bloodhounds about a half mile from the house. The trail faded away and was lost where Thayer presumably covered up by walking in a stream.

At an autopsy William Green, Kansas City mail robber, was named the slayer of his two companions, Grover C. Durrill and George Curtis, and himself when they were surrounded in the Salsbury farmhouse.

Stanley Brown and Tom Under- wood, brought in alive with Charles Berta, who was, wounded in the shoulder, are confined in the penitentiary. Berta is in the prison hospital and the other two in solitary.

Zerbst said they may be charged with prison break, punishable by a maximum penalty of five years' additional imprisonment and $1,000 fine, and added it was possible they would be accused of complicity in assault with intent to kill the warden.

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American Auto Trail-Union Pacific Railroad (Oskaloosa to Eightmile House KS)

American Auto Trail-Union Pacific Railroad (Oskaloosa to Eightmile House KS) https://youtu.be/xJ7hlpW7bsI This American auto trail explores northeastern Kansas, from Oskaloosa to Leavenworth by way of Winchester and Easton.

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