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From: "the lankfords" <>
Subject: Re: [MO-CW] Re:Boone Scholl & Jim Lane's Horse
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:26:17 -0700
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What I am curious about now, is who was this Jim Lane? We know who he
wasn't. How about it Desoto Joe, do you know who he might have been? Maybe
it might give more information in helping Claiborne.

Rose Mary Lankford
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Subject: [MO-CW] Re:Boone Scholl & Jim Lane's Horse


> Claiborne,
> Congratulations on finding your ancestor's burial ground! That was
good
> scholarship and good sleuthing!
> I read John McCorkle's account again regarding that controversial
horse,
> and he seems to be referring to a Jim Lane, not the Senator Jim Lane.
After
> all, the Sen. Jim Lane barely escaped the raiders at Lawrence, Kansas just
a
> few weeks after Boone Scholl's death. What the others said about Sen. Jim
> Lane's well-documented suicide in 1866 is quite true. Records from that
time
> say Senator Lane was depressed because postwar Kansans were no longer
> enamored with him.
> Confusing those two Jim Lanes was an easy mistake to make. Looking at
> this another way, you can see that John McCorkle's account proves true
> because he freely used such details as names like that. Evidently, the
> guerrillas knew a little about this other Jim Lane, or at least enough for
> McCorkle to remember and cite it to us. After all this talk about a horse
you
> would think we are Kentuckians! Just kidding.
> Bruce Nichols
>
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