Up from the Sod; The Life Story of a Kansas Prairie County
by Horace Jones
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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€11.63€8.14
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About This Item
Lyons, KS: Rice County Historical Society , 1968 Rice County Historical Society, Lyons, KS. 1968. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for former owner name on FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good; staining to top of front board. No DJ. Green cloth boards and spine with dark brown lettering on spine and front board with settler wagon picture on front board. 207 pp 8vo. This is the story of Rice County Kansas. It is the central county in the central state which makes it unique due to the time span involved, the important personages who figured in it and the subjects it embraces. The area holds the fame of being visited by Francisco Coronado in 1541 as he visited the Quivera Indians in the Lyons area on his quest for gold in the New World. A clean presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004456
- Title
- Up from the Sod; The Life Story of a Kansas Prairie County
- Author
- Horace Jones
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Rice County Historical Society
- Place of Publication
- Lyons, KS
- Date Published
- 1968
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Coronado, Spanish Explorers, Rice County Kansas, Santa Fe Trail, breadbasket of the nation, wheat production, Army posts, Indian Wars, Indian Raids, Fort Larned, buffalo, buffalo hunts, Fort Harker, Fort Zarah, Quivira, Father padilla, Cibola, Cabeza de V
- Bookseller catalogs
- Kansas Related;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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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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