
by Greg Hoots I had grown up sharing a home with a cat. My folks almost always had one for as long as I can recall. When I moved to Kansas forty-five […]
by Greg Hoots I had grown up sharing a home with a cat. My folks almost always had one for as long as I can recall. When I moved to Kansas forty-five […]
-by Greg Hoots- Warning to the reader: This article contains offensive language which is only presented here in direct quotes taken from Wabaunsee County newspapers, all of which were published and are […]
by Greg Hoots Recently, a good friend of mine whom I’ve never met sent me a book from their home on the East Coast. It was a brief eighty-two pages in length […]
It’s Photo Friday. I have a great photo for you today. It’s a view of a 4th of July parade proceeding north on Missouri Street in Alma, Kansas in 1894. There’s a […]
Hi, Everyone, It’s Photo Friday! Here’s an interesting real photo postcard produced by M. L. Zercher Book & Stationery Co. of Topeka. The postcard was printed by Zercher in about 1910, and […]
-by Greg Hoots- Hi, Everyone, It’s Photo Friday! I have a really good photo for you today. It’s a view from late 1907 of the Alma, Kansas high school football team, posed […]
It’s Photo Friday! I have a great photograph for you today. It’s a real photo postcard which I added to my collection last week, taken in Paxico, Kansas, circa 1905. It’s an […]
-by Greg Hoots- Elmer Jones was born on January 17, 1878 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. His path to the American West is undocumented, but by 1895, the seventeen-year-old youth had arrived in […]
-by Greg Hoots- Times have changed. Numerous times, in my role as a photo historian, I’ve heard people say, “we don’t have any old photos, my folks never owned a camera.” Other […]
-by Greg Hoots- I was born at Christa Hogan Hospital in West Plains, Missouri in the middle of the 1950s. I don’t remember any of the event, although my mother had a […]