Harry Strunk, Water Conservationist

Monday, April 14, 2003

Harry Strunk was one of the most influential people who ever lived in McCook. He was also one of the most colorful. After a disagreement with the local schoolmaster in his native Pawnee City, Harry dropped out of school. At age 14, with only an 8th grade education, he landed a job as "printer's devil" on a local paper. Over the next five years he worked on a number of weekly papers and eventually landed in McCook, working for Frank Kimmel at the McCook Tribune. But he was ambitious and soon launched out on his own, publishing The Red Willow County Gazette, in 1911, at the age of 19.

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