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C.A. Jacobson: North Dakota’s Frontier Sentinel and His Quest for Justice
Third in the Frontier Lawman Series Published in the April 2026 issue of The Cowboy Chronicle, official publication of the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame Katie Kalinchenko was afraid of this moment. Her 16-year-old son Matt went missing on March 6,1927. For four months she had been waiting for her son to return not wanting to face what was increasingly likely; Matt would never be coming home. McKenzie County Sheriff Charles A. Jacobson also dreaded this day; he had led the search for Matt ever since his mother had reported him missing. Jacobson knew the loss of a child; his baby daughter died at just four months old. But not…


