True Tales of Old-time Kansas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook True Tales of Old-time Kansas write by David Dary. This book was released on 1984. True Tales of Old-time Kansas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Rollicking, adventurous, touching. Whether the reader invests only a few minutes at a time or finishes the book at one sitting, he is in for a lot of fun.' - American West'Fascinating tales set down succinctly and excitingly. There are stories of lost treasure and sudden riches, of outlaws and sheriffs, of massacres and heroics.' - Kansas City Times'A fun book. Where else but in the frontier West were such stories really lived?' - Richard Bartlett, author of Great Surveys of the American West and The New Country: A Social History of the American Frontier
More True Tales of Old-time Kansas
More True Tales of Old-time Kansas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More True Tales of Old-time Kansas write by David Dary. This book was released on 1987. More True Tales of Old-time Kansas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Swift-moving tales, always readable, often captivating. Dary is ever the master of narrative. This is a contribution to the literary heritage of the state.' -Thomas Isern, coauthor of Plainsfolk
True Tales of Old-time Kansas
True Tales of Old-time Kansas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook True Tales of Old-time Kansas write by David Dary. This book was released on 1987. True Tales of Old-time Kansas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
True Tales of Kansas
True Tales of Kansas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook True Tales of Kansas write by Roger Ringer. This book was released on 2021. True Tales of Kansas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The historic tales of the Sunflower State and its people are as interesting as the days are long. A pair of brothers went from making airplanes to tractors and soon became part of John Deere. Kansan Captain Donald K. Ross won the first Congressional Medal of Honor through his actions at Pearl Harbor. The first telephone exchange in the area was invented by a Mr. Strowger because a rival funeral director had a girlfriend who was an operator for the local telephone company and kept sending his business to her friend. Nannie Jones, who stood up to Jim Crow racism and won her case in court, is memorialized by a headstone at Highland Cemetery. Author Roger Ringer details these stories and more.
Wild Times & True Tales from the High Plains
Wild Times & True Tales from the High Plains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wild Times & True Tales from the High Plains write by Matt Vincent. This book was released on 2021-02. Wild Times & True Tales from the High Plains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of short stories about historical events that occurred on the flatlands of Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado beginning in the mid-19th century. Included in this new book by Matt Vincent are stories on the Battle of Beecher Island, the first western field command of George Armstrong Custer, Summit Springs and the death of Tall Bull of the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers. Other real-life characters in the book include John C. Fremont, Mattie Silks, Sam Bass and Ernest Fletcher, to mention only a few. Entertaining, educational and a must-read for anyone interested in the wild and wooly western frontier and the events that helped shape the region as we know it today. "True Tales" is artfully done and masterfully written.
