True Tales Of Kansas

Author : Roger Ringer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467146845

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True Tales of Kansas by Roger Ringer Pdf

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.

Author : David Dary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000844286

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True Tales of Old-time Kansas by David Dary Pdf

'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

Author : David Dary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:895179256

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True Tales of Old-time Kansas by David Dary Pdf

Author : David Dary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : IND:39000005591933

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More True Tales of Old-time Kansas by David Dary Pdf

'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

Author : Diana Lambdin Meyer
Publisher : Legends of the West
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1493028405

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Kansas Myths and Legends by Diana Lambdin Meyer Pdf

Each episode included in this book explores unusual events, unsolved crimes, and legends in Kansas's history. From rumors of the Dalton gang's buried treasures to the disappearance of an entire town, Kansas Myths and Legends makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the state's most fascinating and compelling stories.

Author : Diana Staresinic-Deane
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781456614515

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Shadow on the Hill by Diana Staresinic-Deane Pdf

It was the most brutal murder in the history of Coffey County, Kansas. On May 30, 1925, Florence Knoblock, a farmer's wife and the mother of a young boy, was found slaughtered on her kitchen floor. Several innocent men were taken into custody before the victim's husband, John, was accused of the crime. He would endure two sensational trials before being acquitted. Eighty years later, local historian Diana Staresinic-Deane studied the investigation, which was doomed by destroyed evidence, inexperienced lawmen, disappearing witnesses, and a community more desperate for an arrest than justice. She would also discover a witness who may have seen the murderer that fateful morning.

Author : Sarah Smarsh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493016778

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Outlaw Tales of Kansas by Sarah Smarsh Pdf

From Dodge City to Abilene and beyond, Kansas in its early years was one fine place for outlaws, and one of the most violent places in America’s history. Consider the exploits of Jesse James—a sociopathic killer or a Robin Hood who redistributed Union wealth? Or those of Big Nose Kate, whose true identity was much nobler than her reputation as Doc Holliday’s longtime companion. That’s not to mention the dangerous inmate who became the learned Bird Man of Kansas—a renowned canary expert whose life story became a hit film. All this and more is yours for the reading in Outlaw Tales of Kansas, which introduces fifteen of the most dramatic events, and the most daring and despicable desperados, in the history of the Sunflower State.

Author : Matt Vincent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736457543

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Wild Times & True Tales from the High Plains by Matt Vincent Pdf

In this collection of short stories and essays about the High Plains of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska, author Matt Vincent takes the reader on a highly entertaining tour of the Great Plains with stories of the people, places and events that occurred there. From train robberies and locust swarms to wheat fires and Indian battles, Vincent reminds us just how tough the pioneers must have been in order to settle the American West.

Author : Matt Vincent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736457500

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Wild Times & True Tales from the High Plains by Matt Vincent Pdf

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.

Author : Sam Quinones
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826322964

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True Tales from Another Mexico by Sam Quinones Pdf

Merges keen observation with astute interviews and storytelling in the search for an authentic modern Mexico, finding it in part with emigrants.

Author : David Dary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015068830267

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True Tales of the Prairies and Plains by David Dary Pdf

This is a collection of stories set on the prairies and plains of middle America that stretch from Rio Grande northward into Canada.

Author : Dakota Walz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733414606

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Everything I Loved More by Dakota Walz Pdf

Everything I Loved More is a roller-coaster collection of true short stories that follow a young man searching for sincere adventure along the tops of freight trains and mountain ranges. The danger can be nausea-inducing while he hangs on a single flexing hold of sandstone hundreds of feet off the ground or attempts to skirt the sexual advances of a meth smoking trucker while hitchhiking through the middle of nowhere. Between the many gripping scenes, his debasing humor acknowledges the foolish romance of it all.Beyond each singular exciting and hapless adventure, an important journey is told between the tales: the journey of a young man attempting to combat mental health issues with a potent dose of unabashed recklessness - and just how well it almost works.

Author : P. J. McGraw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1500265551

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One Crazy Bastard by P. J. McGraw Pdf

Money talks...but what does it tell us? One Crazy Bastard: The True Story of a Kansas City Hustler chronicles the messages one man heard and the shocking ways he responded. Early in life, money called PJ McGraw into action, urging him to do whatever it took to go from rags to riches. He dropped out of school-in seventh grade-and ran away to chase the buck across North America as a carnival worker and hustler. The next time money called, McGraw shifted into the adult entertainment industry, where he became entangled with gangsters, dealers, and corrupt government employees and eventually landed in jail for tax evasion. At this point, some folks would've ended the conversation, but not McGraw. He was willing to go the distance, no matter where it took him. And where exactly did it take him? Step inside this revealing romp to find out-and prepare to laugh, cry, and shake your head in disbelief. One Crazy Bastard is a sensational yet sincere set of autobiographical vignettes that will appeal to anyone who, like the author, has sidestepped convention to get ahead, as well as to readers interested in riveting personal accounts about roads less traveled.

Author : Diana Lambdin Meyer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493028412

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Kansas Myths and Legends by Diana Lambdin Meyer Pdf

Kansas Myths and Legends explores unusual events, unsolved crimes, and legends in Kansas’s history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Texas history. The more than a dozen stories answer questions such as: Is it possible that a family of four living on the Kansas prairie got away with serial murder for more than three years and escaped to another part of the country to continue their killing spree? Are there still remnants of a late widow’s fortune buried throughout her property? Is the well-marked grave of Buffalo Bill Cody indeed his final resting place, or did some loyal friends surreptitiously remove him from Colorado and fulfill his last wish to be buried near his namesake town? From rumors of the Dalton gang’s buried treasures to the disappearance of an entire town, Kansas Myths and Legends makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the state's most fascinating and compelling stories.

Author : Johnny H. Johnston
Publisher : J.H. Johnston
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0962137464

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Tales of Old Leavenworth by Johnny H. Johnston Pdf