A Contemporary Look at the Antics of Some Highly Publicized Kansas Cowtown Personalities
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Köp båda 2 för 680 kr"For about 51 weeks a year the average old-time cowboy [was]. . .hard working, . . .sober, and. . .consclentious. . . . During the 52nd week, however, he might erupt into a rip-snorting, free-spending hell raiser bent on divesting himself of his earnings. . . . What caused. . . such a metamorphosis? He was celebrating--making up for the long and lonely weeks he had just spent on the trail drive from Texas. He was free now--unemployed, uninhibited, and rich--until tomorrow or next week! And waiting for the trail cowboy and his cash, almost rubbing its hands in anticipation, was the cowtown."
former Executive Director of the Kansas State Historical Society, was an author of Kansas in Newspapers; Kansas, A Pictorial History; and Kansas, the Thirty-fourth Star. Joseph W. Snell, Executive Director Emeritus and former Curator of Manuscripts for the Kansas State Historical Society, authored Painted Ladies of the Cowtown Frontier. Miller and Snell also co-authored Great Gunfighters of the Kansas Cowtowns, 1867-1886.