Dan Short In the quiet Ozarks town of Noel, Missouri--self-proclaimed “Missouri’s Christmas City” with a population around 1,200 in 1989--Dan Short stood as a pillar of the community. At 51, the president of the State Bank of Noel since 1983 had relocated there in 1986, known for calling high school football games on local radio, writing a weekly sports column, and emceeing the town’s Christmas parade. He lived alone in a rural home in Benton County, Arkansas, roughly eight

Rev. James Dyer Rev. James Dyer was born on October 3, 1837, near Eagletown in what was then the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. He died on August 7, 1921, a few miles from his birthplace in McCurtain County. A full-blood Choctaw, he served his people as a council representative, Washington delegate, carpenter, farmer, and Presbyterian minister through the final decades of tribal government and into Oklahoma statehood. His father, Moses Dyer, had come to the Choctaw Nation