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Runnymede’s Major Stockholder
Hope Hooper was a major stockholder in the original Runnymede Hotel. He and his wife, Constance, ran the hotel for the first year or so. — courtesy of Jim Richey & Kansas State Historical Society
Runnymede Colonists - ca. 1880’s
The Runnymede colonists documented their time in Kansas with a weekly column in the Harper paper and photographs, such as this photo.
Although the pictures were taken in the late 1880’s, well past the days of the frontier west, the settlers sported guns and knives in many photos. Their outfits were a curious mixture of wild west with British upper crust. — courtesy of Kansas State Historical Society (KSHS) & Jim Richey