When Lea County rancher Matthew Sewalt transported by train his cattle to Nebraska pastures in 1918, he used rail cars from Seagraves, Texas, to Lubbock and then on to Kansas City, Mo., the city on the borders with Missouri, Kansas, and not far south of pastures in Nebraska. Sewalt probably was unaware of what had been happening in Kansas City at the time he left on the train, or if he was aware of it perhaps he did not think of what was happening there as such a big deal. Seagraves, fifty miles or so from his ranch, had become a cattle-shipping center in 1917 after Santa Fe Railway had built an extension to Lubbock, but when Sewalt´s ride ended for him he found himself in another center of...
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