“Norman Kincaide Ph.D. is a member of the Southeast Colorado Private Property Rights Council, the founder of Western Region Property Rights Coalition and the author of “Scammed? Canyons and Plains National Heritage Area Initiative for Southeastern Colorado” and “Call to Service Journey Through the Heartland“
Norman was born in Pueblo, Colorado and raised on the Sanford-Kincaide Ranch, south of Vineland in Pueblo County. He graduated from Pueblo County High School, earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Colorado, Boulder, 1973, a master’s degree in history from the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, 1981, a certificate in historical editing and publishing procedures from Arizona State University, Tempe, 1984 and his Ph.D. in history, Arizona State University, Tempe 1989. He was the ASU-University of Heidelberg Exchange Scholar, 1984-85. His doctoral dissertation was on the German Army during The Great War: Sturmabteilungen to Freikorps: German Army Tactical and Organizational Development, 1914-1918.
Starting in 1986 he entered upon a twenty-two year career in legal publishing, first with Shepard’s McGraw-Hill, then with LexisNexis Federal Case Law and Citation. The vast majority of his work involved syllabus editing which required reading published legal opinions and exclusively federal case law, Court of Appeals and United States Supreme Court, from 1992. He retired to Rocky Ford, CO after the case law citations product work was off-shored to India in 2008.
Angel Cushing is just an old soldier’s wife who loves to ride horses, grow a few vegetables and raise a couple of farm animals. She and/or her husband, Thomas, are board members for the North Lyon County Veteran’s Memorial Project, The North Lyon County Historical Museum and the Historic Preservation Coalition.
Angel had been abandoned by her parents as a toddler. The desire to know her personal history drove her love of history. She had always questioned everything. The majority of the members of her childhood home had a criminal record. No longer wanting to be a victim, a participant, or a witness to criminal activity, she chose to speak up. Angel moved out of her house at a very young age eventually finding refuge in Job Corps. She enrolled in a Community Collage around her 17th birthday and eventually earned 3 Associate of Applied Science Degrees in the field of printing and design. Most of the work she did in this field was volunteer, as the attack on the United States on September 11th, 2001, compelled her to advocacy for various military family organizations.
Both children had joined the military by the time Angel’s husband chose to take a position at Fort Riley, Kansas in preparation for retirement. They bought a small farm in Lyon County, KS. Within a few years, they would discover Lyon County had joined with the city of Emporia, in a new Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Regulations that would have regulated livestock production out of the county.
Other Contributors of information for this website do not wish to be named or featured. Some are the victims of Regulatory Takings. While others are historians, researchers, data collectors or insiders of the organizations who covet private property.
