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Hard Luck: The Billy Cook Story
William Edward “Billy” Cook was born into a life of violence. It was a hard-luck life that would carry him all the way to…
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Murphysburg Veterans History Project
In an era of interpreting how we view or romanticize Joplin’s historical facts related to the American Civil War, and with the understanding that…
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