Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and Buffalo: A Frontier Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (638 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0700621717 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 584 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Handed down through his family over the past century and faithfully transcribed here, Street's story of frontier life is as rich in history as it is in character, giving us a sense of what it was to be not just a witness to, but a player in, the drama of the plains as it unfolded in the late nineteenth century. They give us insight into his evolving understanding of his multi-decade relationship with the Lakota. Nearing 60, William D. Street's early years on the plains of western Kansas were both ordinary and extraordinary; ordinary in what they reveal about the everyday life of so many who went out to the western frontier, extraordinary in their breadth and depth of historical event and impact. 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. 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. Street (1851–1911) sa
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. 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. The narrator, Bill Street, who goes on to become a Kansan of some notoriety in the latter part of the nineteenth century, recounts in great detail his experiences as a teenage muleskinner in the 1860s, a trooper in the Nineteenth Kansas Volunt
Street is professor emeritus of psychology at Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington. Warren R.
Five Stars Nancy Larson a wonderful look at a specific time in our history