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		<title>Anne Cook &amp; Twisted Souls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m never too far away from the thing that breaks my heart.  In my day to day job I come across items that trigger the deep hurt I thought was dammed up for a few hours at least.  One of the chapters I’m working on for a new book loosed a flood of emotions yesterday.  <a href="http://chrisenss.com/anne-cook-twisted-souls/">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>This Day&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1897 &#8211; Respected lawman Les Dow was reading a letter in front of the post office in Carlsbad, New Mexico when Dave Kemp stepped up and shot him in the face.  He died the next morning.]]></description>
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		<title>H2O &amp; the Frontier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s known as the old wooden bucket delusion. Pioneers believed the best tasting water came from old wooden buckets. If they had lived as long as they thought they would sipping the swill contained in those wooden buckets they would have been outraged to learn that people are now paying $2 and $3 for bottled <a href="http://chrisenss.com/h2o-the-frontier/">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thunder &amp; Walter Hill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the movie posters hanging in my living room is from the western the Long Riders. It has always been one of my favorite westerns. The directing and writing is brilliant and that’s due to Walter Hill. Hill is exceptional at his craft and he knows the west. Hill was born in Long Beach, <a href="http://chrisenss.com/thunder-walter-hill/">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>This Day&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1900 &#8211; Three fingered Jack Dunlap and some other desperadoes tried to rob the train in Fairbanks, Arizona.  They opened fire on Jeff Milton, the express messenger, and shattered his arm, but Milton got off a shotgun blast that put 11 buckshop into Dunlap&#8217;s side.  The attempted robbery failed.]]></description>
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		<title>Prisoners &amp; Vengeance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am filled with thoughts about my brother Rick today. In federal prison for a something he did not do, he suffers from Parkinson’s Disease, his eye-sight is failing, and he still has no teeth from when he was beaten several years ago. I know that retribution is sure for his ex-wife and her daughter <a href="http://chrisenss.com/prisoners-vengeance/">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Books &amp; Wedding Dresses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the new book about mail-order brides is released in October of this year, I’ll be ready to roll out the carpet on a new fashion line inspired by the stories in Object Matrimony. The fashion line entitled Prairie Rose Designs is a series of wedding dresses pattered after the early frontier days but with <a href="http://chrisenss.com/books-wedding-dresses/">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Role of Some Pioneer Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ According to the lyrics in the Old West song entitled the Wagoneer’s Lad by Charles Neely, the life of a pioneer woman was something to be lamented.  Some of the lyrics were as follows:   “always controlled, they’re always confined.  Controlled by their family until they are wives, then slaves to their husbands the rest of <a href="http://chrisenss.com/the-role-of-some-pioneer-women/">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>This Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1885- Red Hall and Sheriff Charlie McKinney met with some Mexican officials at Las Islas crossing on the Rio Grande River to try and bring peace to the troubled region.  The Mexicans lured them to a fiesta but they were attecked by rurales and had to flee for their lives.]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisenss.com/this-day-14/</link>
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		<title>Gould &amp; Guilt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“No one respects the law…no one respects the courts…the courts don’t respect themselves.”  This sad verdict on justice was handed down by a journalist in the 1880s.  Things haven’t changed much since then.  It was widely believed in the Old West that men such as corrupt railroad mogul Jay Gould controlled the courts.  It was <a href="http://chrisenss.com/gould-guilt/">read more...</a>]]></description>
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