James R. Matthews
The Jayhawkers
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As the 1840s rolled around, the frontier was no longer Ohio and Tennessee, it was further west. If a young man wanted to make a fresh start, he had to go to the edge of the known west. Saint Joe, Missouri was such a place. It was the new “Jumpin Off Place”. Angus Wade was such a young man. He, his young wife and baby son would journey to that frontier. A place where civilization was behind them and the unknown was out there ahead. Nearly five decades of success and failure, happiness and tragedy, lay ahead of them. That was the gamble that had to be accepted by every Pioneer.