Harry Strunk, water conservationist

Monday, March 18, 2019

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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