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Before setting out, Kearny issued an assignment to James W. Magoffin, a longtime trader whose business acumen and force of personality had rendered him a well-known fixture along the trail.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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Fluent in Spanish and popular in Santa Fe, Magoffin had been summoned to Washington by Senator Benton in early June to discuss American objectives with Benton, Marcy, and Polk.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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Fluent in Spanish and popular in Santa Fe, Magoffin had been summoned to Washington by Senator Benton in early June to discuss American objectives with Benton, Marcy, and Polk.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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Before setting out, Kearny issued an assignment to James W. Magoffin, a longtime trader whose business acumen and force of personality had rendered him a well-known fixture along the trail.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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Magoffin, Susan, 1827-1855, kept a journal of her experience on the Santa Fe Trail
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Return of the MacGuffin: Iran and Nuclear Weapons (K-punk) “A MacGuffin (sometimes spelt McGuffin or Magoffin), an empty master-signifier, is a now-ubiquitous plot device or catalyst that holds no meaning or purpose of its own except to motivate the players or characters and advance a narrative or story.”
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Return of the MacGuffin: Iran and Nuclear Weapons (K-punk) “A MacGuffin (sometimes spelt McGuffin or Magoffin), an empty master-signifier, is a now-ubiquitous plot device or catalyst that holds no meaning or purpose of its own except to motivate the players or characters and advance a narrative or story.”
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Magoffin, Laurel and neighboring Whitley County are documented in Elliot Jaspin's book Buried in the Bitter Water: The hidden history of racial cleansing in America (2007) as places where, from one census count to the next, local black population dropped from small but substantial to almost nothing.
Hilary Lambert: Obama Volunteers Face Uphill Slog in White Rural Kentucky 2008
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She has given out 250 bumperstickers and over 40 Obama-Biden yard signs mostly in the Salyersville area of Magoffin, a county "that got on the front page of the L.A. Times" in the May primary for its overwhelming support for Hillary Clinton.
Hilary Lambert: Obama Volunteers Face Uphill Slog in White Rural Kentucky 2008
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The Unionists, unhappily, were not organized while the Secessionists were led by the State officials, chief among whom was Governor Magoffin.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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