Search Results: Kansas - Local History from heytotobooks

ABOUT THE BOOK: Born in 1924, Clyde Owen Martin grew up in a Kansas farm family, then worked in all aspects of the oil field from roughneck to driller to production manager. This book of family memories celebrates his 85 years of life and his pioneering Kansas family. Clyde died in 2012.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Clyde's wife, GAIL LEE MARTIN (1924 - 2013), researched and wrote most of the family history and profiles in this book. Some were published in Kanhistique magazine and in Prairie Schooner Genealogy magazine. She published an earlier book about her life, called MY FLINT HILLS CHILDHOOD: GROWING UP IN 1930S KANSAS. Other examples of her writing can be found on the Our Echo and ehow websites. She served as the assistant webmaster for the Our Echo website. For ten years, she was the state archivist for the Kansas Authors Club.
VIRGINIA ALLAIN (1948 - ), Clyde's second daughter, wrote three of the sections for this book. She compiled and designed this book and her mother's other book, MY FLINT HILLS… Read More

Self-published (2011). Like new trade paperback, 174 pages. Inscribed by author. Flexible, high-gloss laminated cover.
About the Book: Perry Rubart, born in 1931, has seen many changes in his lifetime—personally as well as in this country. In this book, Perry describes his childhood in the Flint Hills of Kansas during the Depression era, his young adulthood in the throes of the Korean War, and his experiences of small-town Ulysses, Kansas, in the changing times of the 1960s-1990s. This is a book about his poverty and affluence, pain and joy, hardships and blessings. In this story of a lifetime, we see a man who did "dare to dream and then dare to make the dream come true."

Olathe, KS: Charles R. Green, Historian and Publisher (1st Edition, January 1913 [though stated on front cover to be April, 1912], Green's Historical Series). Ex-museum copy, with call number sticker on front cover. Both boards creased and cracked full length of cover. Book is in rough condition, but is quite rare. Boards are age soiled and stained; edges and corners chipped and worn; spine extremities frayed. Text pages are toned; clean and unmarked. FFEP is pulling away from binding; RFEP loose and laid in. See our photos for condition.
About the Book: Part of Green's Historical Series, IN KEOKUK'S TIME ON THE KANSAS RESERVATION tells of various incidents pertaining to the Keokuks, the Sac & Fox Indians (Mississippi band) and tales of the early settlers and life on the Kansas reservation, located on the head waters of the Osage River, 1846-1870. Other books in the series include Annals of Lyndon: First Book; Along the Santa Fe and Lawrence Trails; Old Ridgeway, 1855-69; Leida Saylor's Story. The… Read More

Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press (1st Edition, 1957). Hardcover with gray boards and dust jacket, 38 pages. Former museum copy; only sign of that is a small shelving sticker on front cover. Dust jacket is scuffed and has several small closed and open tears and chipping. Book is clean and unmarked, with a square, tight binding.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Since this simple account is based upon what Mrs. Ida Eisenhower, President Dwight Eisenhower's mother, told Kunigunde Duncan concerning her life, it does not follow the usual pattern of biography. It seeks to capture the flavor and warmth of her personality; and, upon the best of authority, that of Ida Eisenhower herself, the essence of her life is here: its satisfactions, its disappointments and delights, its hopes and griefs, its tests and triumphs.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Author and poet Flora Kunigunde Duncan Isely (1886 - 1971) wrote and published a great deal of poetry during the early 1900s and later wrote a number of books under the pseudonym,… Read More

Lawrence, KS: The Regents Press of Kansas (1st Edition, 1980). Hardcover in very good condition with gold cloth boards and dust jacket, 467 pages. Dust jacket is in rough condition, with heavy shelf wear, several closed tears and chipping to the edges, and a 1" open tear at bottom front of spine; backstrip is sunned; damp stain to front cover. Small sticker inside front cover: "Kansas Collection of Charles D. Stough", but otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is square with a bit of play, but solid.
About the Book: A major contribution to the heritage of the Great Plains region, this volume is a compilation of over 7,000 separate items, relating to the folk customs, beliefs, and superstitions of Kansas. More than 2,000 people, representing every county in the state, were interviewed during a fifteen-year survey conducted by Koch and his assistants. Individuals of all ages contributed material that has lived in oral tradition for decades—items ranging from superstitions about when to hold… Read More

Relatively Searching, Hamilton, KS (1991). Set of two softcover books, 434 pages total. Book I (Books A, A1, B, C & D 1856-1895). Book II (Books E, F and G 1895-1917). Both volumes include a Table of Contents and Name Index.
Greenwood County, in the southeast part of the state, is in a region featuring gently rolling plains and tallgrass prairie. Organized in 1862, this was one of the original 33 counties established by the legislature in 1855. It is named for Arkansas congressman and commissioner of Indian affairs, Alfred B. Greenwood. In 1861 Greenwood gained more land from the former Madison County.

Calvin W. Gower, "Kansas Territory and the Pike's Peak Gold Rush," unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Kansas, 1958. Professionally bound hardcover with black boards, white titles, onion skin paper, 335 pages. No dust jacket, as issued. Clean and unmarked, with a square, tight binding. Includes two maps: 1) The Gold Fields, 2) Routes to the Gold Regions of Colorado, 1859.
ABOUT THE BOOK: The Pike's Peak gold rush was usually considered as a part of early Colorado history rather than as a phase of Kansas territorial history. However, the gold rush was undoubtedly one of the major events in the history of Kansas Territory in 1859 and 1860.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Calvin W. Gower (1926-2014) was born in Delta, Colorado on November 14, 1926 and moved to Grand Junction, which he considered his home town, in 1927. He graduated from high school in Grand Junction Colorado, attended Mesa College in Grand Junction, he received his BA degree from Western State College in Greeley Colorado, his master's… Read More

Fairfax, VA: Self Published (1st Edition, April 1999). Hardcover, 109 pages.
About the Book: The Kramer family was one of the German immigrant families that settled on the absentee Shawnee Indian lands in Douglas County, Kansas, in 1864. Tracing and documenting the movement of this family from Württemberg in southwest Germany to the Iowa frontier, to western Missouri, and then to eastern Kansas was a challenging task for the author.
About the Author: Helen McShane Bailey (1916-2013) was born in Kansas and grew up in Colorado. In 1941, she became a "government girl" and moved to Washington, DC where she worked for General George C. Marshall in the US Army Office of the Chief of Staff. From 1941-1945, she was the Head of the Records Section in the War Department. From 1945 to 1948, she was an historian for the US Army, writing and editing the US Army's official history series of World War II. From 1958 to 1959, she was a research assistant for the George C. Marshall Research Foundation. From 1968… Read More

ABOUT THE BOOK: A childhood on the Kansas prairies in the 1930s springs vividly to life in the detailed memories of Gail Martin. Her simple accounts of long ago school days, celebrations and family life are a treasure. Travel back in time to life in the Flint Hills during the Great Depression, and the time leading up to World War II. The memories include her father's work in the oil field, trips to town in the family's Model A, raising a pet badger, fishing on the Cottonwood River and wearing dresses made from feed sack material. The book also explores her family's role in early Kansas history with details of covered wagons, homesteading, the Civil War and fledgling industries. Follow the Tower, Vining and McGhee family from Tyro to Teterville to Eureka.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gail Lee Martin (1924-2013) was Kansas Authors Club State Archivist from 1995-2005. She joined Kansas Authors Club in 1992 and was a member of District 5. Martin enjoyed writing fiction, nonfiction, stories for children, journalism,… Read More

Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company (1st Edition, 1899). Tooled leather hardcover with gilt title and decoration, gilt top and fore edges, 845 pages. Book is housed in an archival museum box. Sewn binding of text block extremely weak. Backstrip of spine missing. Boards have separated from the binding. The leather covers are heavily worn, with sections along the spine, edges, and corners worn through to the cardboard. FFEP laid in; heavily chipped and torn along the edges; previous owner's small address sticker affixed. There are numerous pages with chipping and small closed tears along the edges and old tape repairs.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Excerpt: Coming generations will appreciate this volume and preserve it as a sacred treasure, from the fact that it contains so much that would never find its way into public records, and which would otherwise be inaccessible. Great care has been taken in the compilation of the work, and'every opportunity possible given to those represented to insure correctness in what… Read More

~~FLAT SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR ON 2ND FFEP VERSO~~
Baldwin City, KS: Telegraphics (1st Edition, 1975). Hardcover with gold cloth boards, black titles,193 pages. Dust jacket is lightly scuffed, with minor chipping at head of spine. Book itself is in beautiful condition: clean and unmarked, with a square, tight binding.
ABOUT THE BOOK: An invaluable book that preserves some of the history and memories of an earlier era of education and way of life in our country. Each school discussed has a line drawing of the schoolhouse and typically 2 - 3 pages of history on each one. 83 separate schools are covered in 193 pages. Sketches by the author.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Goldenbelle "Goldie" Piper Daniels was born in 1890 on a farm on the old California Road in Douglas County, Kansas, where her parents settled in 1885. She attended a one-room Douglas County rural school and lived in Douglas County her entire life. She began work on this book at age 78 and completed it in 1975. She died in 1980.

Baldwin City, KS: Telegraphics (1st Edition, 1975). Hardcover with gold cloth boards, black titles,193 pages. Dust jacket is now protected by clear mylar cover, but shows edgewear, rubbing to the spine, erosion to spine extremities, and a couple of jagged, closed tears to the back flap and back cover (1-1/2" and 3" respectively) (the one on the back cover has been repaired on both sides with regular scotch tape). Book itself is in beautiful condition: clean and unmarked, with a square, tight binding.
ABOUT THE BOOK: An invaluable book that preserves some of the history and memories of an earlier era of education and way of life in our country. Each school discussed has a line drawing of the schoolhouse and typically 2 - 3 pages of history on each one. 83 separate schools are covered in 193 pages. Sketches by the author.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Goldenbelle "Goldie" Piper Daniels was born in 1890 on a farm on the old California Road in Douglas County, Kansas, where her parents settled in 1885.… Read More