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		<title>This Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1887 &#8211; Long Haired Jim Courtright was running a protection scam on the gamblers in Fort Worth, Texas.  Luke Short refused to pay and Long Haired Jim was killed in the ensuring gunplay.]]></description>
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		<title>The Plea &amp; Other Book Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent visit to the site (particularly from New Liberty Hospital in Clay County  Liberty, MO., a high school graduate from Klein High School in Texas, &#38; the District Court in Texas) lead me to believe I need to update the progress on the books due to hit the stands in 2012 and 2013.  Let’s begin <a href="http://chrisenss.com/the-plea-other-book-updates/">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>This Day&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On this day in 1843 the Oregon Bill passes the Senate, but Senator Linn&#8217;s bill to encourage migration to the Northwest Territories will die in the House.  Also, explorer John C. Fremont raises an American flag above the Rocky Mountains in 1843.]]></description>
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		<title>Poison Runs Through It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few of the stories I’ve been working on for the book entitled the Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the American Mid-west are a little rough. I spent the bulk of yesterday writing about Elizabeth Reed, the first woman to be hung in the state of Illinois. Her story is desperately sad <a href="http://chrisenss.com/poison-runs-through-it/">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Many Loves of Buffalo Bill: The True Story of Life on the Wild West Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Husband, Father, Scout and Actor “My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.”                                                          William Cody &#8211; 1904 In late February 1869, Louisa and her two-year-old daughter Arta were tucked safely inside her parent’s home in St. Louis, Missouri.  It was cold, and she stood over a fire <a href="http://chrisenss.com/the-many-loves-of-buffalo-bill-the-true-story-of-life-on-the-wild-west-show/">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Wild Wild West</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1965 television took a new turn in programming, cashing in on the James Bond craze.  What developed was a sudden trend of secret agent and spy shows that literally controlled the prime-time airwaves.  The Western format that was so prominent in the 1950s and early 1960s was virtually being pushed aside, making way for <a href="http://chrisenss.com/chris-recommends/">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Born This Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My great nephew Daniel Everett Brady was born last night.  It’s hard to keep my focus and write about the Old West with such news.  I have such a wonderful time with my great niece Elizabeth when I return to Missouri, I look forward to having just as much fun with Daniel.  Elizabeth likes to <a href="http://chrisenss.com/born-this-day/">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wild West Prisons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last picture taken of my brother The lawlessness of the 1860’s through the 1890’s, wrote criminologist Cesare Lombroso “is an American phenomenon with no equal in the rest of the world.”  Statistics of the period &#8211; if not- entirely reliable &#8211; appear to substantiate his claim.  In this period the crime rate rose 445 <a href="http://chrisenss.com/wild-west-prisons/">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>This Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 30, 1885 the Secretary of the Interior, Henry M Teller, recommended the opening of Indian lands in the Indian Territory to homesteaders.  Since 1880 homesteaders, known as &#8216;boomers&#8217; and led by David L Payen and William L Couch, had been crossing into Indian Territory from Kansas and Arkansas and settling on what is <a href="http://chrisenss.com/this-day-5/">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What Started It All</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article is about the first play I penned while I was attending the University of Arizona.  The actress that starred in the comedy is now on Broadway.  What a great memory!  Until the folks that really know what they&#8217;re doing with this site can fix the sizing of the article &#8211; you can view <a href="http://chrisenss.com/what-started-it-all/">read more...</a>]]></description>
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