but why in the world abilene? well, there's a reason for this, and i'm going to get to it in a little bit, but it had to do with something called texas fever. in 1866, the texas cattlemen finally got their act together enough to recover from the civil war to drive cattle into illinois. and what happened when they started doing this is that's something that happened as early as 1860 in cast. this is whenever the texas cattle got close to any domestic short horns, those short horns died. now, think about this if you're a kansas farmer and you have a couple dairy cows and that's basically what you have. maybe you have a calf or maybe you have a bull. then this texas herd goes by, and a week later your herd is dead. you're not too thrilled with the presence of texas cattlemen. so the eastern part of the state was settled by farmers like this, and they were tough on these texas cattlemen. they killed the herds if they could or stampeded them back into indian territory or they would take and on some occasions they actua

abilene, texas, maddie. caller: good morning. guest: good morning. caller: i just have a couple of things to say. deal, it affects whites now more than blacks. old, he had2 years a good job. when he was in his late 30's, he got burnt late -- really bad on his back. third-degree burns. opioids,ted him on coding, hydrocodone. it does not take much for somebody to get addicted to hydrocodone. pills,nd them out like just like candy. you go to the dentist and get hydrocodone. he was taking 16 pills per day. problem but hea did not know what to do without it. it, to him and pay for be in a rehab center. ok? he went once and got out, it lasted a month. he got back on them. when it got hard for him to get them, and his wife was also on them, and they had children, three. whichound another outlet was methamphetamines. they took them by mouth at first and snorted forever and started using needles. crap about giving people free needles, you are just giving them permission to do drugs. you are not getting them help. 2012ughter-in-law died in because she shared s

the city that voted most for trump in the country is abilene, texas, 100 30,000 people. 10% black.hey elected a black s guy as mayor. first black mayor in their history. how can attempt that's racist turn around and vote for a black guy to be mayor? the answer is, america is not a racist country. >> the country is less racist. i can't believe republican eisenhower, a very long time ago. now times have changed. speaking of times changing, joe biden, back to a story, i guess he had big complications when he was helping kids swim at the pool, lifeguarding as a day. he recounted a meeting he had. >> it was a bad move. he had a bunch of bad boys. you, off the board. he came off. not a joke. there's a guy named bill, the only white guy and he did off the post. he's the mechanic. he cut offha a 6-foot chain. he walked to the car and say i'm going to wrap this chain around your head. so i walked out with aam chain d said, when i tell you get off the board, i shouldn't have called you. i apologize for that. he said you apologize? i said i apologize for what i said. he said okay, my heart be

another family member settled around abilene where wild bill hickok served as marshal in the 1870's. that is what the barn looked like when the gettysburg foundation bought it in 2008. there was a danger of a strong wind knocking it down. they were worried. the first thing they did when they bought it was put up wires, cross their fingers and hope it stayed up. and it did. and now it looks like that. on weekends, it looks like that. the foundation save the farm when it was falling apart, and it looked like this when it bought the spangler property in 2008. it nursed the farm back to life and preserved its story, and in spanglerade the george farm hospital site available to the public. you can get a ticket and see for yourself. i will be there at 12: 30 tuesday with a program to dedicate it to the granite schoolhouse. that is it. thank you. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] questions?ny have you been there and seen the founda

daniel moved to kansas to use his carpentry skills in the new state and settled around abilene where wild bill hickok served as marshal in the 1870's. that is with the barn look like when the foundation bought it in 2008. there was a real danger of a strong wind knocking it down. they were worried about it. first thing they did was put up some wires and cross their fingers and hope it stayed up. it did. now, it looks like that. on weekends, and looks like that. the foundation saved the farm when it was dilapidated and falling apart. in 2008. like this they nursed the farm back to life and preserved the story. in 2013, it made the george spengler civil war farm site available for the public. you can get a ticket and see for yourself why the farm matter. i will be there at 12:30 on tuesday for a program dedicated to the schoolhouse. that is it. thank you so much. [applause] >> are there any questions? have you been over there and seen the foundation? >> i have a picture of where it is. you cannot see yet, but it is there. a couple of winters ago, i went over with a rake. --as able to b

they would text each other longitude and latitude coordinates, and it led us to a remote area near abilenes there? >> as soon as we got to where the spot says, "you're there," we look up and there's an actual human grave that's been dug. >> reporter: fresh grave? >> fresh grave. >> reporter: prosecutors believe the original plan was to kidnap ashlea, kill her, and put her body in that grave. she was killed in her apartment, the prosecutors thought, because she fought so hard. >> what is that? >> this is a glock 19 semiautomatic pistol. >> reporter: in fact, investigators believe ashlea harris was pistol whipped. so when this glock 19 was found in the black infiniti, prosecutor deener had it tested. the results were both sad and conclusive. >> it came back positive with ashlea's dna on the gun, so that was very significant. >> there was blood adjacent to her bed. and blood splattered on the bed. this was not an easy death. >> reporter: hearing all this was so hard on ashlea's mother monica and loved ones like april. >> i thought i could handle it. huh-uh, nope. so i went out and i went back

marshall of bay city and abilene kansas. he was a broadway performer, star of theater on broadway. and of course he was a gambler who fought his career in deadwood south dakota and one of the things i had on very briefly, one of the joys of working on the book is i discovered he had so often been associated with calamity jane. like there was a big love affair, you go back to that movie the plainsman as a love affair of the two of them. but the love of his life and the woman he eventually married was awoman named agnes lake, one of the most remarkable women of the 1800s . she was one of the major circus impresario's of the country area she was arrival of barnum and bailey and thnobody knows who she is. she had an amazing careerand she and hickok fell in love . that was one of the unexpected letters of the book, to portray this remarkable person who literally had beenlost to history area so thank you . >> first i'd like to give a shout out to john evans of the nefarious books because he's one of the reasons i'm here. he read my book, enjoyed it and asked the mississippi book festival

there is a story that i want to share of a mother of three in abilene, texas. sheree, who nearly died from vaping. she had never smoked cigarettes before. she tried e-cigarettes because she liked the taste of the flavors, and she became addicted. she initially thought she had the flu, but within days, she had to be rushed to the emergency room and put in a medically induced coma. there are now countless people who have had to be put into toically induced comas due the impacts of vaping and she spent nearly a month in the hospital. she was a nonsmoker drawn to e-cigarettes by their flavors. is there evidence that you found that other nonsmokers are being drawn in by the attraction to flavors? dr. schuchat: yes, that's right. among youth right now, we're seeing that e-cigarettes are more common than cigarettes and that flavors are pretty much always what brings the youth in. rep. wasserman schultz: and you think a ban on flavors of any type would bring a dramatic reduction to to people who either might be attracted to begin vaping or if they were no longer availa

abilene, texas, maddie. caller: good morning. guest: good morning. i just have a couple of things to say. deal, it affects whites now more than blacks. old, he had2 years a good job. when he was in his late 30's, he got burnt late -- really bad on his back. third-degree burns. opioids,ted him on coding, hydrocodone. it does not take much for somebody to get addicted to hydrocodone. pills,nd them out like just like candy. you go to the dentist and get hydrocodone. he was taking 16 pills per day. problem but hea did not know what to do without it. it, to him and pay for be in a rehab center. ok? he went once and got out, it lasted a month. he got back on them. when it got hard for him to get them, and his wife was also on them, and they had children, three. whichound another outlet was methamphetamines. they took them by mouth at first and snorted forever and started using needles. crap about giving people free needles, you are just giving them permission to do drugs. you are not getting them help. 2012ughter-in-law died in because she shared so many n

shea could leave her office in abilene, drive seven hours north and still be in her region. that's how much territory she was responsible for. shea has always been willing to go the extra mile, literally. in her first three years working in the senate, shea put 75,000 miles on her car. in fact, she's put so many miles on her vehicles throughout the last 26 years that it's probably for the best that she married a local car dealer in abilene. after 26 years, serving 89 counties in west texas, everyone knows shea and shea knows everyone, from every mayor to every county judge and sheriff to every state elected official, shea made it a point to know them all. in fact, when i traveled with shea in west texas, we would arrive at an event and there was no doubt who folks were happier to see, me or shea, and it sure wasn't me. shea's also known in west texas for her rural tours. therl legendary -- they are legendary. shea's region spans from amarillo to lubbock to big spring to midland, odessa. on the last tour she planned, an ag tour, we started in lubbock with stops in mule shoe,

it stretched from southern texas to the city of abilene, kansas. next, kansas state university history professor james sherow talks about his book "the chisholm trail." mr. sherow chronicles joseph mccoy's success in national and international cattle trading, which sparked the growth of the u.s. beef industry. the watkins museum of history in lawrence, kansas, hosted this event. >>> good evening, everyone. welcome to our latest raven book chat at the watkins. i'm the public engagement coordinator here. i thank you for joining us tonight. i'm starting to sound like a broken record before every event, but these days when there are so many options for things to do with our free time and you don't even -- i mean, you can