Tuesday, January 29, 1861
Jude Royer was in a foul mood.
Not because another day had passed without finding Matthew Swann. And not because later in the day Kansas was to officially enter the Union as the 34th state and Josiah Blackwell, the contrarian bookkeeper for a dry goods warehouse, argued to the breakfast table that since secessionism was as good …
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