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True Tales Of Old-Time Kansas
DAVID DARY
Other works by DAVID DARYPublication: University Press of Kansas, 1984 , Lawrence
Revised edition. 8vo. Originally published in 1979 by Crown Publishers using the title TRUE TALES OF THE OLD-TIME PLAINS. Color pictorial, stiff wrappers, ix [blank], 322 pp., preface, illustrated, portraits, plates, maps, notes and credits, sources of illustrations, index. This new edition revised and with additional stories and a new title, pulls together stories of old-time Kansas. "The tales capture the romance, excitement, and adventure of the Old West; others have the tempo of a quiet life surrounded by the immensity of the plains and prairies. There are well-known characters: Bill Cody, the Dalton gang, the Bloody Benders, William Clarke Quantrill, Abraham Lincoln, and Frederic Remington, who once owned a Kansas sheep ranch and later was a silent partner in a Kansas City saloon before he became a well-known artist. And there are stories, too, about little-known characters such as Prairie Dog Dave Morrow, who made his living capturing live prairie dogs. Dary relates tales of lost treasure and sudden riches, of outlaws and "jayhawk" raiders, of massacres and heroics." Fine copy.
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