Tag: Mere Perplexity
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Byers didn’t witness history – he grabbed it by the horns, wrestled it to the ground and branded it with his own initials
William Newton Byers, that paragon of pioneer pluck, didn’t just move to Denver in 1859 – he stormed into that tent city, armed with nothing but a printing press and more chutzpah than a snake oil salesman at a hypochondriac convention! This man, with nary a lick of journalistic experience, had the audacity to launch…
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William N. Byers – The OHIO and IOWA Years (1831 – 1854)
William Newton Byers, that paragon of pioneer pluck, burst forth from his mother’s womb on February 22, 1831, in West Jefferson, Madison County, Ohio. This wasn’t just any birth – it was a cosmic event that would shape the very fabric of the American West! His parents, Moses Watson Byers and Mary Ann Brandenburg, weren’t your…
