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Day: October 27, 2022

Frontier Kansas lawyers plied their trade ‘on grounds of general intelligence’

In frontier Kansas communities, few lawyers had formal legal educations. Instead, most would-be lawyers "read law." (Getty Images)

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 feature the cowboy as the self-reliant loner who comes along in time to save a town from marauding outlaws. Consider Shane: He has no first name but attracts the eye […]

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