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Trivia about Mansker's Station:
♦ A young lawyer named Andrew Jackson was a boarder at the second Mansker’s Station.
♦ “He was a great woodsman and a mighty hunter . . . one of the best marksmen I ever saw shoulder a rifle,” said John Carr, a contemporary of Kasper Mansker.
♦ Captain Bowen and his family once fled from their home to Mansker’s Station.
♦ Mansker’s Fort is built like a typical fort of the day with blockhouses at a couple of the corners and those buildings wider on the second floor, hanging over the wall and having a hatch that allowed shooting and dropping things on attackers, much like a medieval castle.
♦ Some of William Bowen Campbell’s cousins grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, were friends of Samuel Clemens, the writer known as Mark Twain, and had their experiences written about in his books.
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