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Johnny Ringo, son of Martin and Mary Peters Ringo, had distant Dutch ancestry, [2] and was born in what later became the small town of Greens Fork, Clay Township, Wayne County, Indiana.
On 28 March 1915, [3] between 8 [2] [4] and 32 [5] Gija people were shot and killed, and their bodies burned, at Mistake Creek in the East Kimberley. [3] Exactly who was responsible and why the massacre occurred have remained uncertain, [6] but the perpetrators are believed to have been an ex-policeman and telegraph linesman from Warmun (then known as Turkey Creek) called Michael [2] "Mick ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Kansas. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 371 law enforcement agencies employing 7,450 sworn police officers, about 266 for each 100,000 residents.
Pottawatomie massacre [8] May 24–25, 1856 Franklin County, Kansas: Bleeding Kansas 5 Free-Staters [9] vs Pro-slavery settlers [10] Battle of Black Jack [11] June 2, 1856 near modern Baldwin City, Kansas: Bleeding Kansas Border Ruffians [12] vs Free-Staters [13] Battle of Fort Titus: August 16, 1856 Douglas County, Kansas: Bleeding Kansas 3
The Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) is the highway patrol agency for the U.S. state of Kansas.While the patrol's primary focus is maintaining the safety of State, Federal and Interstate highways, it also is charged with providing support for county agencies when tactical, aerial or other specialized services are needed.
The "Bloody Creek Massacre" and events that triggered it are now the focus of a debate over whether to change the name of nearby Kelseyville.` (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) For the record :
Turkey Creek was part of areawide disasters including the all-time record Great Flood of 1844, which relocated the stream's mouth from the Missouri River westward to the Kaw (Kansas) River and erased all human settlement of the French Bottoms. [6] Another was the Great Flood of 1951.
The site of the massacre is preserved by the Kansas Historical Society as the Marais des Cygnes Massacre State Historic Site, originally called the Marais des Cygnes Massacre Memorial Park. [4] The first commemoration at the site was two stone markers erected by men of the 3rd Iowa Cavalry Regiment in 1864, although these monuments had been ...