From Marion to Vietnam, governments don’t like secrets exposed
Kansas newspapers and media have been falling all over themselves to cover the efforts by the Marion police, assisted by a search warrant signed by
With Kansas election season winding down, consider the benefits of being a mugwump
It is hard to become, and then remain, a bona fide political mugwump. A mugwump is someone who wants to remain aloof from party politics.
Dean Halliday Smith is a fifth generation Kansan, a Vietnam vet, a retired lawyer, and grandfather several times over. His interests are Bleeding Kansas territorial days, the civil war, and post-war western novels.
He has authored two books, Thomas Ewing Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General, U. of Missouri Press (2008); and The Wastage, Rowe Publishing Co., (2016). A second historical novel about a racially fractured Kansas frontier murder trial is seeking a publisher in New York.”
Smith lives on a small farm in Larned, Kansas, with his wife, Kahrmelle.
From Marion to Vietnam, governments don’t like secrets exposed
Kansas newspapers and media have been falling all over themselves to cover the efforts by the Marion police, assisted by a search warrant signed by
With Kansas election season winding down, consider the benefits of being a mugwump
It is hard to become, and then remain, a bona fide political mugwump. A mugwump is someone who wants to remain aloof from party politics.
