The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains - The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain
Topeka: Crane & Company, 1907. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2187942
First edition. Top edge of rear board faintly stained, bottom corner lightly bumped causing 1/2 inch tear to cloth revealing board beneath.
xii, 351 pp. 8vo. Howes C730. A firsthand account of life on the American plains, specifically treating conflict with Native Americans ('Kiowas, Comanches, and Staked Plains Apaches') in Missouri and Kansas, and the rampant hunting of buffalo which led to their near-extinction. The first chapter also deals with the author's youth in Kansas, and provides his memories of time served as a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War, and commentary on border warfare. Brief mention is also made of the Benders of Kansas, a family of serial killers responsible for at least a dozen deaths over a period of four years. Includes a frontispiece of the author, 13 plates, and 4 illustrations in text.
Price: $125.00