Tag: coming of age

  • Minty Wilcox to the Rescue

    Lost Dog An Old Kansas City Story Tuesday, July 5, 1898, shortly after noon Kansas City, Missouri As Minty Wilcox hurried home, she mentally reviewed the symbols from Mr. Gregg’s shorthand system she’d studied that morning at the Kansas City Business College. A pretty woman of nineteen years, she wore a white jumper dress with…