Bridges of Atchison County # 95 Traditional Cache
Bridges of Atchison County # 95
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We decided to do a series of some of the Bridges of Atchison County. No, we don't have covered bridges, but we do have some pretty neat old bridges, and some new ones. We hope you enjoy visiting some of them. While placing these caches, we came upon deer, buffalo, coyote, rabbits, and one ole hoot owl, that was telling me all about the area or told me to get out, I don't know which.
You know the drill: Not all of the roads in Atchison County are paved or gravel. Some of the roads are dirt roads,use caution, if the dirt roads are wet - DO NOT ATTEMPT!
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Taken from the History of Atchison County , dated 1916:
J. H. Talbott came west in 1855, and was a passenger on the A. B. Chambers. The cholera was so bad that Mr. Talbott left the boat at Jefferson City and came overland to Monrovia, although his passage was paid to Leavenworth. Several passengers on the Chambers died of cholera and were buried on sand bars. Mr. Talbott preempted a claim at Monrovia, and when his family came two years later he kept a boarding house at Monrovia for four years. Albert D. Richardson, was often a guest at his house. He was a clean, neat city man of about thirty, and was engaged in writing up the Kansas war for the New York Tribune. Jim Lane also stopped at J. H. Talbott's occasionally. Mr Talbott first heard him make a speech in a grove at Pardee, and A.J. Westbrook was in the audience. Lane make some abusive reference to Westbrook, who made a movement as if to pull a pistol, but Lane shook his celebrated boney finger at Westbrook and defied him to shoot. At the same time Atchison was controlled by the pro-slavery element, but the Free State men predominated around Monrovia and Pardee. The noted Colonel Caleb lived in Farmington. James Ridpath was often at J.H. Talbott's and D. R. Anthony and Webb Wilder appeared there as young men and took up claims.
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