According to at least some of his biographers, Billy the Kid was afraid of only one man. That man, a sometime member of Billy's gang, was a Kansan who left his home in Greenwood County to trail cattle west into Colorado in the early 1870s, then became involved in a train robbery between Kinsley and Dodge City before going on down into New Mexico. We've been talking about early desperadoes, but Kansas had a few public enemies later on as well. He was once part of the Barker gang. This product's location in Kansas was discovered around 1900 and it has been mined continuously since the teens.
Location is somewhere in the northwest quadrant of Kansas.
All the strange El Nino weather got me to thinking about the different natural disasters that have beset Kansas over the centuries. I can think of at least three major ones, and a few more well-known ones. This trivia is wrapped up within a puzzle. The puzzle is in the form of a poem, and the information comes in the form of puns, allegories, and allusions. Most things have a double meaning, or even triple or quadruple meaning, but they all tell about an early Kansan, rather famous in his time, but almost forgotten now.