Medicine Lodge; The Story of a Kansas Frontier Town by Nellie Snyder Yost (AUTHOR SIGNED) - 1970

Chicago, IL: The Swallow Press/Sage Books , 1970 The Swallow Press/Sage Books, Chicago, IL. 1970. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated First Edition/First Printing. Signed by the author on the FFFP. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name on the front wrap. Book Condition: Good; shelfwear to wrap edges and spine shoulders; rubbing to wraps; light soiling to wraps.No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is creased from opening but is not split; text is secure in binding. 237 pp 8vo. Written by a noted Nebraska historian, this is the story of typical and atypical frontier town of Medicine Lodge, Kansas. Medicine Lodge has the typical; Indians, pioneers, cattle, cowboys, violence, frontier justice, small town industries and growth. The on the other hand it has the legend of Flower Pot Mountain, a large Indian peace treaty gathering, the unusual poet the Pilgrim Bard, floods, tornadoes, Carry Nation, rodeo performer Lucille Mulhall, a hanging tree, an opera house, and a 300 pound congressman. A clean presentable copy.