"On October 22, 1989, in the small town of St. Joseph, Minnesota, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped at gunpoint. Twenty-seven years later, on September 3, 2016, Danny Heinrich led authorities to the boy's remains. What lies between is the riveting story of the search for Jacob Wetterling, told by his mother, Patty. With her trademark candor and down-to-earth honesty, she details the investigation as it unfolds, discusses her family's...

People enslaved here experienced the same horrors as those held captive in other states, and their stories of courage and perseverance are amazing. Priscilla Baltimore purchased her own emancipation and founded a freedom village. Caroline Quarlls escaped to Canada. Many who fled for their lives spent time bunkered in the basement of Hanson House. The region's Congregationalists brought a fiery. brand of abolitionism. And Prairie Park still holds the...

There are a thousand Kansas "characters" from its Wild West era of whom the world never heard of. Perhaps the most conspicuous of these forgotten characters is Dick Parr (Cephas W. Parr) who had been captured as a boy by the Sioux Indians, at Raw Hide River, South Dakota, in April 1856. He later became a scout, Indian interpreter, and guide with the U.S. Army. As an Army post scout at Fort Hays, Parr would take part in one of the most heroic exhibitions...