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.
Frontier Kansas lawyers plied their trade ‘on grounds of general intelligence’
I am an aficionado of Western novels. I like the work of Elmer Kelton, Zane Grey, C. J. Box, Craig Johnson, that sort. Most Westerns
Dean Halliday Smith is a fifth generation Kansan, a Vietnam vet, a 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).
Smith lives on a small farm in Larned, Kansas, with his wife, Kahrmelle.
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.
Frontier Kansas lawyers plied their trade ‘on grounds of general intelligence’
I am an aficionado of Western novels. I like the work of Elmer Kelton, Zane Grey, C. J. Box, Craig Johnson, that sort. Most Westerns
