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Hannah Ropes Spends 6 Months in Kansas With Loaded Pistols and Bowie Knife
On Sept. 11, 1855, Hannah Ropes, a 46-year-old single parent, stepped onto a train in Boston and headed to the ‘Far-Off Land’...

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