Lindsey Graham
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15,077 appearances
196 recordings
52 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 16 Sep
Lindsey Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So in 1856, while their mother Polly and other siblings stayed behind, 19-year-old James and his older brother Lorenzo left Illinois to look for land that the Hickok family could homestead in Kansas.
But almost immediately, Lorenzo got cold feet, and when their train reached St.
Louis, he turned back for home.
But unlike his brother, Hickok had no interest in returning to Illinois.
He had grown restless in their small town and longed for adventure and to test his mettle on the frontier.
So he continued on from St.
Louis, boarding a steamboat up the Missouri River.
But when he disembarked in Leavenworth, Kansas, he found a territory in turmoil.
Two years earlier, in 1854, Congress had passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
This law added Kansas and Nebraska as territories to the United States, putting them on the path to statehood.
But the legislation left the question of whether Kansas would permit slavery up to its residents.
And as a result, pro- and anti-slavery forces clashed violently, leading to the nickname Bleeding Kansas.
But despite this chaotic atmosphere, Hickok quickly found himself at home in the excitement of the territory.
He became a regular at the various saloons, gambling halls, and brothels that dotted Leavenworth.
And to support himself, he worked a variety of odd jobs, including for a freight company.
It was there that he met a young boy named Bill Cody, who would later become better known as Buffalo Bill.
Hickok took Cody under his wing, and the two would become lifelong friends.
Around this same time, Hickok also likely joined one of the local anti-slavery militias, engaging in skirmishes against pro-slavery forces coming in from Missouri.
He wrote several letters home alluding to his association with well-known militia leaders, and his family's strong moral objection to slavery would have made him sympathetic to their cause.
But he had not forgotten the reason he'd come to Kansas in the first place.
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