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Ridges of Leavenworth County StoryChasers
The Spears decided to combine this observation with their knowledge of the pulp fiction era. They decided to give adult readers what they wanted:
Shorter books (50,000 to 65,000 words
instead of the standard 70,000 to 125,000 words)
Tightly written without too much description
Exciting story lines that pull the readers
through quickly--entertainment is our goal
Novels of place with recognizable features
We're starting with Bob Spear's mystery series set in Leavenworth; however, we will be adding other genres & authors and locales.
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| Buffalo Bill (Bob Spear) Reenactment |
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RJBurkhart3 (anonymous) says…
I found "The Prairie Traveler" by US Army Captain Randolph B.Marcy (1812-1887) to be a fact-filled handbook for Overland Expeditions. It includes maps, illustrations, and itineraries of the principal routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific.
This document was first published in 1859 by "Authority of the War Department" and included in following bibliography:
usnps: a Selective Bibliography of Exploration Relating to the United States (Nov 29, 2004)
Travels of Randolph B. Marcy, 1812-1887,
U. of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 1855. Colonel Randolph B. Marcy,
Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border, ...
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/ca...
RJBurkhart3 (anonymous) says…
To expand my Freedom's Frontier perspectives, I searched for keywords from Marcy's book:
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Randolph B. Marcy - Wikipedia
... packing, traveling, fording rivers, tracking, and bivouacking on the plains,
... Marcy also conveys information "concerning the habits of Indians," ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph...
"The Prairie Traveler" by Marcy Randolph Barnes ...
... provisions and medicines to fording rivers, selection of campsites, types of saddles, packing, tracking, guides, guards, etc. and habits of Indians. ...
http://www.onread.com/book/The-Prairi...
RJBurkhart3 (anonymous) says…
While visiting Leavenworth's Main Street "Book Barn" last Friday, I acquired Robert Collins "The Race to Indian Territory: Three Railroads, Their Struggle, and Their Ultimate Fates" (2005) ...
His "critical thinking" insight on p. 52,
>>Legends ran rampant on the frontier. But unless they can be proved, legends are not historical facts, no matter how colorful they might be, or how much a partisan might want to believe them.<< prompted a keyword search with one result:
"Kansas railroad" history frontier legends "ran rampant"
Full text of "this is the west"
william macleod raine- "Guns of the Frontier" james d. horan The Gunmen
they're all gone. Nothing remains but their hideouts, their legends and the names ...
http://www.archive.org/details/thisis...
Author: robert west howard
Publisher: rand mcnally & company
Language: English
Call number: 556
Book contributor: Universal Digital Library
Collection: printdisabled; universallibrary
Digital Jaywalker Journal ... Metadata:
Identifier: thisisthewest000556mbp
Mediatype: texts
Pagelayout: FirstPageLeft
Imagecount: 262
Copyrightowner: the westerners.chicago corral
Scanningcenter: rmsc-iiith
Digitalpublicationdate: 2003-10-16 00:00:00
Barcode: 102925
Identifier-access: http://www.archive.org/details/thisis...
Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t79s1m909
Noindex: true
RJBurkhart3 (anonymous) says…
Seeking related frontier insights, I clicked on the publisher's hyperlink to discover:
Commercial Geography - Edward Van Dyke Robinson (1910)
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan
and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb
Author: Edward Van Dyke Robinson
Publisher: Rand, McNally & company
Year: 1910
Possible copyright status: not_in_copyright
Language: English
Digitizing sponsor: Google
Book from the collections of: University of Michigan
Collection: americana
Identifier: commercialgeogr00robigoog
Scanner: google
Mediatype: texts
Identifier-access: http://www.archive.org/details/commer...
Oclc-id: 2495803
Scandate: 20070702
Copyright-region: US
Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t03x8969t
Imagecount: 555
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=Ly45...
Lccn: 10023971
RJBurkhart3 (anonymous) says…
This digital library discovery empowers highly-effective "Eco-Futures Forum" backcasting via Commercial geography By Edward Van Dyke Robinson ...
Searching for Kansas cites:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ly45...