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If you’ve ever dug into the weirder corners of minor league baseball history, you know team nicknames can get pretty wild. But even by Class D standards, east-central Illinois in the early 1900s was playing in a league of its own. For two brief summers, local ballclubs took the field named not after fierce animals…
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In 1888, while the little town of Boston was fighting for survival on the southeastern Colorado plains, newspaperman and town booster Sam Konkel chose a confident motto for his Western World: “Railroads A Moral Certainty.” There was considerably more certainty than railroad. For the founders of Boston and the other boomtowns scattered across southeastern Colorado…
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Baca County has always been farm country, and in the fall of 1931 Springfield was talking about a rather unusual harvest. It wasn’t wheat, broomcorn or feed. This time the crop was tonsils and adenoids, and before it was over, some 400 people had reportedly undergone operations at a free clinic in Springfield. The story…
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The years 1934 and 1935 were arguably about as tough as the Dust Bowl ever got in Baca County. The country was dry, crops were failing, dirt was moving and times were already plenty hard without Mother Nature piling on. Yet buried in the newspapers from those two years is a curious part of the…
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The arrival of the railroad in Baca County in 1926 changed the possibilities for the county’s growing broomcorn industry. Distance had long been one of the greatest obstacles facing farmers on the isolated southeastern Colorado plains. Broomcorn might command a good price in distant markets, but getting bulky bales to those markets was another matter.…
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Baca County History Book – VOLUME II While manning our booth at the fair, Steve Doner and I discovered how difficult it is to persuade people to submit their stories for Volume II of the Baca County History Book. We heard every excuse imaginable from “I can’t write” to “No one wants to hear about…
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