Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and Buffalo: A Frontier Memoir
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.92 (833 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0700621717 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 584 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Street is professor emeritus of psychology at Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington. Warren R.
Street’s memoir of life on the central and northern Great Plains as a teamster, soldier, homesteader, trapper, buffalo hunter, scout and cowboy is about as exciting as it gets for a vivid, page-turning reminiscence of the Old West. During this seminal decade of westward expansion, Street was an Indian fighter, a soldier, a buffalo hunter, a trapper, a homesteader, a town founder, and a cowboy. “Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and Buffalo offers an interesting, highly readable, and informative personal narrative covering events and experiences of real significance for early, post–Civil War settlement of Kansas and the Great Plains. This is a significant contribution to the literature in the tradition of many other ‘eyewitness’ accounts from the nineteenth century.”—Virgil Dean, editor of John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History“William D. (Like Jack Crabb i
Nearing 60, William D. At the time of his death—noted in the New York Times—he was still at work on his memoir. His tales of life as a teamster, cavalryman, town developer, trapper, buffalo hunter, military scout, and cowboy put us squarely in the middle of such storied events as Sheridan's 1868–1869 winter campaign on the southern Plains and the Cheyenne Exodus of 1878. They take us trapping beaver and hunting buffalo for hides and meat, and driving cattle on the Great Western Cattle Trail. And they give us a front-row seat at the founding and development of Jewell and Gaylord, Kansas, and a firsthand look at the formation of Jewell's "Buffalo Militia."In later life Street rose to prominence as a newspaper publisher, state legislator, and regent of the Kansas State Agricultural College. Handed down through his family over the past century and faithfully transcribed here, Street's story of frontier life is as rich i
Five Stars a wonderful look at a specific time in our history