{"id":9956,"date":"2022-02-16T14:43:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T21:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=9956"},"modified":"2022-02-16T14:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T21:43:07","slug":"1878-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=9956","title":{"rendered":"1878 Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lon<\/a>
Lon and Ell headed 1,343 miles west to Kansas which offered work on railroads, ranches, stores, and farms. Railroad building on the great plains, 1875. Artist: Alfred R. Waud. Harper\u2019s Weekly, v.19, no. 968 (July 17, 1875), p. 577. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: 2003663113.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cattle<\/a>
Cattle on Massachusetts Street, in Lawrence, Kansas (121 miles east of Abilene). Alexander Gardner, photographer, c. 1867. Library of Congress: 2006676202.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is an excerpt from Abby, Laurilla, and Mary Ann,<\/em> Chapter Nineteen, “College and Financial Difficulties Emma and the Austins, 1872\u20131878,” pp. 237\u2013243.<\/p>\n

It continued to be difficult to make money in Eldred. Henry needed his sons\u2019 help with farming, his only source of income. But sons Ell and Lon (ages twenty-three and twenty-one) didn\u2019t like working for their father.<\/p>\n

Around 1878 Ell and Lon headed 1,343 miles west to Kansas, which offered work on railroads, ranches, stores, and farms.<\/p>\n

Lon and Ell worked some in Solomon City (now Solomon), Kansas. When the townsfolk objected to the whole street being taken up by cattle during the cattle drive, Abilene, Kansas, ten miles to the east, became the major shipping center for cattle and produce.<\/p>\n

(In 1871 James Butler Hickok, the Austins\u2019 fifth cousin had been marshal in Abilene. James B., \u201cWild Bill\u201d as he was known, had died in the Dakota Territory, in 1876. It is doubtful the Austin brothers even knew they were related.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an excerpt from Abby, Laurilla, and Mary Ann, Chapter Nineteen, “College and Financial Difficulties Emma and the Austins, 1872\u20131878,” pp. 237\u2013243. It continued to be difficult to make money in Eldred. Henry needed his sons\u2019 help with farming, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9956"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9970,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions\/9970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}