Got up this morning and whipped out a little study illustrating John J. Cozad confronting Al Pearson in a hay field outside of Cozad, Nebraska:
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Threats were exchanged (Cozad owed Pearson wages for the building of a sod damn over a year-and-a-half before). This confrontation would escalate until one of them, below, got a bullet in the mouth, that exited his ear:
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Daily Whipout: "Al Pearson, from a photograph, c. 1881"
Big monsoon blew in on Saturday night. Pictures and video to follow.
"Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty."
—William Archer