Conquest of Southwest Kansas by Blanchard, Leola Howard - 1989

Wichita, KS: Wichita Eagle Press, 1931. 355 pages. New old stock. Tight, clean, and un-read.. First Edition. Cloth - Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Wichita, KS: Wichita Eagle Press, 1931. 355 pages. Signed in name only by the author at the top of the front free end leaf. A previous owner's name/address is inked just below the author's signature. Volume remains tight and otherwise very clean, showing only the slightest signs of use.. First Edition. Cloth - Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Wichita, KS: Self Published by the author / The Wichita Eagle Press, 1931 Self Published by the author / The Wichita Eagle Press, Wichita, KS. c1931. Hardcover. First Edition. Signed by the author on the FFFP. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; bookshelf paint adherence to board bottom edges in places; slight shelfwear; slight dust soiling to textblock top. No DJ. black cloth boards and spine with green lettering on the spine; pictorial scene of shootout in green and gold on front board. Green endpapers. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 355 pp 8vo. This is a book written by Leola Rachel Howard Blanchard (1886-1975) that was to be only about Finney County, but was expanded to include the surrounding counties and make the book about Southwest Kansas, specifically to leave an imperishable record of what this country was like in the beginning and how it was transformed by settler hands into its present-day comforts and prosperity. Finney county came… Read More

Wichita, Kansas: Wichita Eagle Press , 1931. INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED 1932 BY THE AUTHOR on front free endpaper. Book-plate of previous owner on front pastedown. Color pictorial vignette in green and yellow on front cover. Lime endpapers. Illustrations in black and white. A history and stories of frontier life, including material on Dodge City, robbing of the Medicine Lodge Bank. 355pp. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Black Cloth. Light Edge Wear./No Jacket. Octavo.

Wichita: Privately printed, 1931., 1931. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Pictorial cloth, 355 pp., introduction, illustrated, numerous photographs. Six Guns 221 says "Material on Dodge City and on Henry Brown and Ben Wheeler in the robbing of the Medicine Lodge bank." Much on the history, early settlers, climate, cattle, agricultural crops, etc. of Southwest Kansas. Fine, bright copy. HERD 275. RADER 383. SIX GUNS 221.