Search Results: early days of fort scott by goodlander cw

Fort Scott, KS: Citizens National Bank, 1976 Citizens National Bank, Fort Scott, KS. 1976. Hardcover. Bicentennial Reprint of the 1899 original. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. No DJ. Maroon grained flexible boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board. 79 pp 16mo. This book is an accounting of the reminiscences of C.W. Goodlander who came to Fort Scott in 1858 and passed away in 1914. This book only covers his time to 1899. During this time he was mostly a building contractor and he tells of the development of Fort Scott. He also tells of the Border Ruffian raids before and during the Civil War and of General Price's raid on Fort Scott and the coming of the MKT railroad. A good look at the frontier life of Fort Scott, KS. A clean pristine copy.

Fort Scott Monitor, 1900. Hardcover. Good. 12mo in red cloth, cover illustration in gilt. New endsheet unprofessionally added resulting in a flawed and torn frontis.

Ft. Scott, Ks, 1900. 145pp. Pictorial gilt-stamped cloth. Spine sunned, else very good, with compliments slip tipped in. The author arrived in Fort Scott in 1858, and his memoir covers the period through 1870, with a plug for his hotel at the rear of the book. This edition is vastly expanded over the pamphlet of the previous year. HOWES G240.

Fort Scott, Kansas: Monitor Printing Co, 1900. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Leatherette. Very Good. 145pp; frontispiece portrait of author, other full-page portraits and views from photographs. Bound in grained leatherette, gilt cover title; tail of spine chipped. 6.25" x 4.25" Written on the front endpaper: "Presentation copy from Eugene Ware," historian and author. [Howes, U.S.iana, G240. Decker 24:174--"...a chatty and informative work describing the vicinity of Ft. Scott during the days of the Jayhawkers and Border Ruffians."] This is an expanded version of the 1899 first edition. [Socolofsky & Dean, Kansas Bibliography, 3557.].

Monitor Printing Co. Used - Good. 1900. hardcover. Second edition. Stiff cloth boards. Duodecimo. 149 pp. Illustrated. Howes G-240. Some shelf wear and scuffing to boards. Gilt stamped decoration and lettering extremely rubbed and faded. Penciled notations to ffep. Part of front hinge and front binding starting. Altogether a copy in Good condition. Good. (Subject: Americana & Regional History).

GOODLANDER, C.W. Memoirs and Recollections of...of the EArly Days of Fort Scott from April 29, 1858, to January 1, 1870.... Fort Scott, Kansas: Monitor Printing Co., 1900. Illus. 145pp. Very good in orig. leatherette. Howes G-240. A scarce book giving accurate descriptions of the pioneers, border wars and raids etc.

Fort Scott, KS;: Monitor Printing Co.,, 1900. Second edition, enlarged. . Hardcover.. Subtitle reads; "From April 29, 1858, to January 1, 1870, Covering the Time Prior to the Advento of the Railroad and During the Days of the Ox-team and Stage Transportation, and Biographies of Col. H.T. Wilson and Geo. A. Crawford, the Fathers of Fort Scott." Tipped in slip with signature and compliments of Goodlander. Greatly expanded, being nearly doubled in size and with several more plates than the first edition of 1899. This is the preferred edition. 145 pages with photographs. Howes, G-240. Graff, 1584. Bound in original red cloth with lettering and illustration in gilt. Gilt is dulled. Hinges are sound. A very good copy of this delicate book. Digital photograph upon request.