Part 9, Note 50

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Colorado Citizen, August 23, 1877, April 11, 1878, July 4, 1878, August 8, 1878, August 15, 1878, June 12, 1879, July 17, 1879, July 24, 1879, August 7, 1879, August 14, 1879, August 28, 1879, September 4, 1879, September 9, 1880, December 9, 1880, March 10, 1881, June 23, 1881, July 7, 1881, September 1, 1881, September 22, 1881, August 21, 1882, September 21, 1882, September 28, 1882, October 12, 1882, October 19, 1882, October 26, 1882. Herndon died in late 1879 or early 1880, prompting my speculation that he may have abandoned the Sam Houston Institute because of illness (see Colorado Citizen, January 8, 1880). Peterson had poems published in the Citizen on December 21, 1882 and January 4, 1883. After his brief career as a teacher, Moes opened a medical practice in Weimar. In late June or early July 1883, he accidentally took an overdose of a medicine designed to calm his nerves, and died (see Colorado Citizen, July 5 1883).