Chasm | 14 - The Bloody Benders
The Apex & The Abyss
Erika Gwynn
4.6 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 1:03.4 | The Apex and the Abyss presents the chasm, Episode 14, The Bloody Benders. In 18, five families would settle in Lebeck County, Kansas. |
| 1:27.1 | These five families were homesteaders and spiritualists. |
| 1:31.3 | Now, homesteading basically means that a person or persons survives purely on self-sufficiency. |
| 1:38.3 | You make everything yourself and you use the resources around you to make do. |
| 1:43.3 | Homesteaders typically do not walk into a store to purchase things like food, |
| 1:48.0 | clothing, or things of this nature. |
| 1:51.0 | They simply make it themselves. |
| 1:53.0 | As for the spiritualist aspect, |
| 1:55.0 | these individuals believe that they could contact the spirits of the Netherworld via mediums. |
| 2:01.6 | One of the five families that settled in this area were the Benders. |
| 2:06.6 | John Bender Sr. and his wife Elvira had allegedly two children, John Jr. and Kate. |
| 2:13.6 | The Benders would stake their claim on 160 acres of land that was near the Great Osage Trail. |
| 2:20.3 | This trail would be the only open road available if people wanted to travel out west. |
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