Blind Boone and John Lange ride a bicycle down the streets of Warrensburg.

ID: 357 ~ Source: Warrensburg Journal Democrat July 17, 1896 ~ Creator: Warrensburg Journal Democrat July 17, 1896 ~ Date: July 17, 1896

This file appears in: Blind Boone in Warrensburg

This file appears in: Blind Boone in Warrensburg

Blind Boone in Warrensburg

By University of Central Missouri Department of History, Dr. Jon E. Taylor

John Lange, Jr., was born enslaved in Harrisburg, Kentucky on October 4, 1840 to a free man and an enslaved mother. During the Civil War he worked with his father as a butcher and at the end of the Civil War the Lange family moved to Columbia…