Frank Beecher, also known as Franny Beecher, was lead guitarist for Bill Haley & His Comets from 1954-1962, best remembered for his innovative guitar solos combining elements of country music and jazz. At 82 years old, he is still performing and touring the world with the Original Comets.
The Battle of Beecher Island (September 17–September 19, 1868), also known as the Battle of Arikaree Fork, was an armed conflict between elements of the United States Army and several of the Plains Indian tribes.
Beecher Island on the Arikaree River, Colorado was named for Lieutenant Fredrick H. Beecher (nephew of Henry Ward Beecher, a veteran of the Battle of Gettysburg), one of the key leaders of the engagement who was killed during the battle.
In August of that year, General Philip Sheridan, in command of the Department of Missouri, was asked by acting Governor Frank Hall of Colorado for assistance.
Beecher seemed to know instinctively that poetry was not just for the critics, but that people used it in one way or another every day not to flatter but to survive, to express the uncommon or mysterious in their own, often tragic, lives.
Beecher had spent several years researching the populist movement in the upper Midwest, particularly those rebellious men and women who developed the Grange and People's Party in the late-1800s.
Beecher's poetry represents a tradition at odds with the prevailing styles in the United States between the great wars.
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