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Trails South: The Wagon-Road Economy in the Dodge City-Panhandle Region
by C. Robert Haywood
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0974622222
- ISBN 13
- 9780974622224
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Meade, KS: Prairie Books, 2006 Prairie Books, Meade, Kansas. 2006. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition by Prairie Books-original printing 1986 by U of OK Press. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; scant rubbing to panels; light tip bumps. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 296 pp 8vo. This book is about the trade trails and trade vehicles that dominated the commerce of Kansas and Oklahoma in the late 1800s. The author puts the story of trail development in the Dodge City- OK Panhandle region into historical perspective with his account of the people who made the transportation network possible; the troops and early entrepreneurs who laid out rough paths, the freighters who refined and developed these paths, and the people who serviced and were served by the routes. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012563
- Title
- Trails South: The Wagon-Road Economy in the Dodge City-Panhandle Region
- Author
- C. Robert Haywood
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0974622222
- ISBN 13
- 9780974622224
- Publisher
- Prairie Books
- Place of Publication
- Meade, KS
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Western Kansas Commerce, The Old West, Stagecoaches, Freight Wagons, Dodge City Kansas, Oklahoma Panhandle, Jones and Plummer Trail, Meade Kansas, Beaver Kansas, Mobeetie Kansas, Tascosa Kansas, Kansas History, Fort County Kansas history, P.G. Reynolds, K
- Bookseller catalogs
- Transportation; Kansas Related;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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