Strange Country Episode 19: The Benders
Kansas was bleeding way before the Bender family showed up, but they sure added their share to the body count. In Strange Country Episode 19, co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss this murderous family that ran and inn/slaughterhouse on the Osage Trail in the 1870s, and come up with a new idea for Martha Stewart.
Theme music: Resting Place by A Cast of Thousands
Sources used....lots and lots...it makes me so tired:
"Bender Knife." Kansas Historical Society, www.kshs.org/kansapedia/bender-knife/10106.
"Bleeding Kansas." PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html.
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