Stories from Sunday, August 9, 2020

Most 15-year-olds wouldn’t know their “yee” from the “haw,” but not Christopher Kuykendall of McCook, who has been using the commands to direct his uncle’s work horses left or right for many years. Horsepower of both types -- the four-footed variety driven by Christopher, or the steam-, kerosene- or distillate-burning antique tractors powering a 1902 Case threshing machine, corn sheller, sawmill or many other devices on working display at the annual Bum Malleck Threshing show Sunday south of Indianola. ...