Diana Lambdin Meyer is a Kansas City–based freelance travel writer. Her lifelong fascination with history and the odd details of life have inspired her to write about the myths and legends that have taken place in Kansas in the past 150 years.Diana’s career as a travel writer has taken her, a farm girl from rural southern Illinois, to some of the farthest reaches of the planet—but some of her favorites stories and journeys have been just down the road and around the corner.Diana is also the author of Day Trips from Kansas City and Nebraska: Off The Beaten Path (both Globe Pequot Press). She and her husband/photographer, Bruce, are active members of the Society of American Travel Writers. Follow their journeys at www.mojotraveler.com.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Bloody Benders: The First Family of Serial KillersChapter 2: The Frightful Childhood of Buffalo Bill CodyChapter 3: The Dalton Gang’s Buried TreasureChapter 4: Nicodemus, Kansas: Legendary Black Town of the American WestChapter 5: The Phog That Blankets Lawrence, KansasChapter 6: When General George Armstrong Custer Deserted His PostChapter 7: Dwight David EisenhowerChapter 8: Children: Free to a Good Home in KansasChapter 9: Carry A. Nation in KansasChapter 10: The Murder of the Hermit of Council GroveChapter 11: John BrownChapter 12: Amelia Earhart’s Return to Atchison, KansasChapter 13: FBI Cover-Up in Kansas CityChapter 14: Aunt Amanda’s Hidden FortuneBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Diana Lambdin Meyer is a Kansas City–based freelance travel writer. Her lifelong fascination with history and the odd details of life have inspired her to write about the myths and legends that have taken place in Kansas in the past 150 years.Diana’s career as a travel writer has taken her, a farm girl from rural southern Illinois, to some of the farthest reaches of the planet—but some of her favorites stories and journeys have been just down the road and around the corner.Diana is also the author of Day Trips from Kansas City and Nebraska: Off The Beaten Path (both Globe Pequot Press). She and her husband/photographer, Bruce, are active members of the Society of American Travel Writers. Follow their journeys at www.mojotraveler.com.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Bloody Benders: The First Family of Serial KillersChapter 2: The Frightful Childhood of Buffalo Bill CodyChapter 3: The Dalton Gang’s Buried TreasureChapter 4: Nicodemus, Kansas: Legendary Black Town of the American WestChapter 5: The Phog That Blankets Lawrence, KansasChapter 6: When General George Armstrong Custer Deserted His PostChapter 7: Dwight David EisenhowerChapter 8: Children: Free to a Good Home in KansasChapter 9: Carry A. Nation in KansasChapter 10: The Murder of the Hermit of Council GroveChapter 11: John BrownChapter 12: Amelia Earhart’s Return to Atchison, KansasChapter 13: FBI Cover-Up in Kansas CityChapter 14: Aunt Amanda’s Hidden FortuneBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Diana Lambdin Meyer is a Kansas City–based freelance travel writer. Her lifelong fascination with history and the odd details of life have inspired her to write about the myths and legends that have taken place in Kansas in the past 150 years.Diana’s career as a travel writer has taken her, a farm girl from rural southern Illinois, to some of the farthest reaches of the planet—but some of her favorites stories and journeys have been just down the road and around the corner.Diana is also the author of Day Trips from Kansas City and Nebraska: Off The Beaten Path (both Globe Pequot Press). She and her husband/photographer, Bruce, are active members of the Society of American Travel Writers. Follow their journeys at www.mojotraveler.com.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Bloody Benders: The First Family of Serial KillersChapter 2: The Frightful Childhood of Buffalo Bill CodyChapter 3: The Dalton Gang’s Buried TreasureChapter 4: Nicodemus, Kansas: Legendary Black Town of the American WestChapter 5: The Phog That Blankets Lawrence, KansasChapter 6: When General George Armstrong Custer Deserted His PostChapter 7: Dwight David EisenhowerChapter 8: Children: Free to a Good Home in KansasChapter 9: Carry A. Nation in KansasChapter 10: The Murder of the Hermit of Council GroveChapter 11: John BrownChapter 12: Amelia Earhart’s Return to Atchison, KansasChapter 13: FBI Cover-Up in Kansas CityChapter 14: Aunt Amanda’s Hidden FortuneBibliographyIndexAbout the Author