One-Way Ticket to Kansas, the autobiography of Frank M. Stahl, as told and illustrated by Margaret Whittemore. University of Kansas Press, 1959. Transcribed by John D. MeredithContents
Preface..........................................................v I............Seven Times Seven Are Seven........ 1 II..........Woods and Streams........................... 6 III.........Farm Work................................... 11 IV........Making Barrels................................... 15 V..........The Whisky Bottle.......................... 19 VI........Slave or Free?.................................. 23 VII.......The One-Way Ticket........................ 27 VIII......Heading Up the Missouri.................... 31 IX........Out Where the West Begins............... 36 X..........A Friend in Need............................... 40 XI........"Keep the Mill A-Going"..................... 46 XII.......Western Kansas Diggings................... 50 XIII......There's Gold in Those Hills................. 54 XIV......The Long, Long Trail....................... 63 XV.......With the Cavalry in Arkansas............ 72 XVI......"Git Along, Little Dogies, Git Along!". 91 XVII....On the Trail of the Indian................... 96 XVIII...Stone Fences..................................... 109 XIX.....Prohibition Picnics.............................. 116 XX......."Old Alfalfa's" Raids........................... 122 XXI......Gambling Must Go............................. 129 XXII.. .Mission Accomplished........................ 135 Index.............................................................. 143
Photographic Illustrations
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Frank M. Stahl...................... | |
Jennie Dickson...................... | |
Stahl in later years................. | |
Trip card of the New Lucy..... | |
The steamer Wm. J. Lewis..... | |
Santa Fe Trail Ruts................ | |
Cimarron Crossing................ | |
Fort Harker Guardhouse....... | |
Last Chance Store................ |