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Ghost Towns of Kansas: A Traveler's Guide
by Daniel Fitzgerald
- New
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- New/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0700603689
- ISBN 13
- 9780700603688
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1988 University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 1988. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition/First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: New in publisher's vinyl wrapper. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split. 368 pp 8vo. This book is a practical guide to the forsaken settlements of Kansas and a chronicle of their role in the history of Kansas. It focuses on 100 towns that have either disappeared without a trace or are only “a shadowy remnant of what they once were,” telling the story of each town’s settlement, politics, colorful figures and legends, and eventual abandonment or decline. The culmination of more than ten years of research, this new book is a distillation of the author’s immensely popular three-volume work on the state's ghost towns, now out of print. Condensed and redesigned as a traveler’s guide, it is organized by region and features ten maps and detailed instructions for finding each site. Twenty of the towns included are discussed for the first time in this volume. The book also contains more than 100 black-and-white photographs of town scenes. With this new guide in hand, travelers and armchair adventurers alike can journey back to the Kansas frontier—to places like Octagon City, where settlers signed a pledge not to consume liquor, tobacco, or “the flesh of animals” in order to purchase land at $1.25 per acre from the Vegetarian Settlement Company. Or to Sheridan, a tough, end-of-the-line railroad town where, according to the Kansas Commonwealth, “the scum of creation have congregated and assumed control of municipal and social affairs.” At least thirty men were hanged and a hundred killed either in gunfights or by Indians during Sheridan's tumultuous two-year life span. Today the only remainder of Octagon City is a stream named Vegetarian Creek, and “wild and woolly” Sheridan is again a pasture. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017031
- Title
- Ghost Towns of Kansas: A Traveler's Guide
- Author
- Daniel Fitzgerald
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0700603689
- ISBN 13
- 9780700603688
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Place of Publication
- Lawrence, KS
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Kansas Towns, Ghost towns of Kansas, Homesteaders, early Kansas towns, one-room schools, Kansas settlements of the 1800s. vanished towns of Kansas, Kansas Railroads, cattle trails, cow towns,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Kansas Related;
Terms of Sale
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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