The current newspaper in Ogallala is the Keith County News, P.O. Box 359, Ogallala, NE 69153, 308-284-4046. They might be able to tell you if any newspapers were published at that time (1879+). >My Greatuncle named John F. Farritor b about 1847 in Towanda, Bradford >Cty, PA married a Sarah and had George b 1877 and Nora b 1879. He had a >wanderlust, too, and loved excitement so he was in Ogallala playing >cards with the cowboys off the trails when he got involved in a gun >fight (so goes the story). He was killed and supposedly buried in Boot >Hill and never heard from again. Was there a paper in Ogallala at that >time? It would have been after 1879 when Nora was born. I have no idea >what happened to the widow and those small childen either. Audrey