800 N Columbia Ave, Seward, NE 68434, USA
In 1965 Ronald Becher studied at Concordia Teachers College. He got a Bachelor of Science Education. Then Ronald Becher earned his graduate degrees from Concordia Teachers College in Seward, Nebraska.
1450 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
Ronald studied at the University of Kansas in 1973.
800 N Columbia Ave, Seward, NE 68434, USA
In 1965 Ronald Becher studied at Concordia Teachers College. He got a Bachelor of Science Education. Then Ronald Becher earned his graduate degrees from Concordia Teachers College in Seward, Nebraska.
1450 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
Ronald studied at the University of Kansas in 1973.
(Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxto...)
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press In August 1864, Cheyenne and Sioux warriors launched a series of raids on the "road ranches" along the California-Oregon Train in Nebraska Territory, killing, wounding or capturing dozens of white settlers. Massacre Along the Medicine Road details that violent summer, as seen through the eyes of the people who were the targets of the attacks.
https://www.amazon.com/Massacre-along-Medicine-Road-Territory/dp/0870043897/?tag=2022091-20
1999
Ronald Becher was born on February 1, 1943, in Columbus, Nebraska, United States. Ronald was the son of Hugo A. and June Meyer Becher. His father was a carpenter. Ronald Becher's great-great-grandmother lost her first husband in the 1864 raids.
Ronald received his elementary and secondary education in Colombus. In 1965 Ronald Becher studied at Concordia Teachers College. He got a Bachelor of Science Education. Ronald Becher earned his graduate degrees from Concordia Teachers College in Seward, Nebraska. Ronald studied at the University of Kansas in 1973. He earned a Master of Education. Ronald did additional study in special education at the University of Kansas.
Becher has thirteen years teaching experience in regular and special education at the elementary and junior high school levels. He also published several articles on education and historical events.
Ronald was the author of ''Massacre Along the Medicine Road: A Social History of the Indian War of 1864 in Nebraska Territory, Caxton''. He was also a contributor to "Overland Journal".
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1999Ronald was Lutheran.
Ronald was independent in his policital views.
Growing up in Nebraska in the 1950s, the stories of the Indian wars in Ronald’s local history were still very much alive and formed a part of Ronald Becher's informal education. In addition, Ronald’s great-great-grandmother lost her first husband in the 1864 raids. Ronald was under no illusion that Massacre Along the Medicine Road would ever be a best-seller, but he had wanted to ferret out the true details and write the complete story for many years. Having done a great deal of academic writing, Ronald was determined that this book be written for the history buff, the local people who, while not trained as historians, nevertheless possess a wide knowledge of state and local history.
A fiction work, still to be title and reworked, was written differently. For several weeks in 1994, while awaiting back surgery, he found that the only relief from the constant pain came when Ronald sat in his swivel chair at his desk. So, unable to do anything else, Ronald sat all day and wrote twelve short stories about a dreadful little town where he began his teaching career, something like Steinbeck’s Pastures of Heaven.
Ronald Becher was a member of the American Guild of Organists. He was also a member of the Oregon California Trails Association.
Quotes from others about the person
Franzwa, Folio Magazine: "Becher is interested in telling the story as his research told it to him. He is not interested in being delicate. In a passage which is disturbingly similar to the Japanese atrocities in Borneo in the opening days of World War II, he writes about the discovery of the bodies of the victims of the Plum Creek Massacre. For what he has done with this book, he deserves a Pulitzer Prize."
