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TWO GREAT BOOKS THAT REFLECT THE HERITAGE OF KANSAS!
Captain Osborn’s Legacy, by Patsy L. Redden
The true story of the life of Russell Scott Osborn, Civil War soldier, stonemason, Congregational minister, and Populist Party leader who was elected Kansas Secretary of State, therefore becoming an integral part of the Legislative War of 1893. Compiled from his own diaries and writings, Captain Osborn’s Legacy is that rare account that captures a period of Kansas and Western history largely overlooked until now.
A 2005 family reunion led Osborn’s great-great-granddaughter Patsy L. Redden to become not only aware of the accomplishments of her ancestor but also of the available primary material with which his story could be properly told.
“I have been discovering them [Russell and Sabrina Osborn] as real people who had needs, faults, and values, linking them to all other humans. They faced the common human dilemma in a world where dreams and goals do not always have the desired end results. While Russell and Sabrina were living their lives filled with adventure, hardships, successes, and even failures . . . they did not realize what a legacy they would be leaving.” - From the Introduction by Patsy L. Redden.
Valuable as a social and historical record, Captain Osborn’s Legacy is excellent scholarly writing presented in a personable style. Softbound, 546 pages on Superior Stock Paper. ISBN #978-1-60614-012-3. Price: $27.00.
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Hall of Fame Series: Tales of a Town Named Bull City, Compiled by Orville Grant Guttery & Edited by Von Rothenberger
"That name, Bull City, embodies all that was and is the romantic vision of the American West - of cowboys and cattle, of lawless men and endless open spaces and land to call your own, of a brash confidence in the future and what it held, and of the town’s larger-than-life namesake: lawyer, businessman and politician, known far and wide throughout Kansas and beyond . . . Bull City would have made a great title for a 20th Century Western television series.” - From the Introduction by Von Rothenberger.
Starting a town from scratch and building it into a prosperous community is always an uncertain goal. Bull City, Kansas was at first the quintessential 1870s frontier settlement in the American West - primitive, a bit wild, and certainly rough around the edges. But its earliest residents had a dream of building a better life there for themselves and their families, and after fifteen years the town had changed both its name and “wild and woolly” image and evolved into a more sedate and comfortable place to live by the time it was renamed Alton by nefarious means some fifteen years later.
In the 1930s and 1940s historian Orville Grant Guttery gathered together into scrapbooks the town’s early history, both good and bad, through original letters, newspaper clippings, unpublished writings and other primary documentation penned by those who had lived in those early days preserving their tales and memories about real people, adventures, triumphs, joys, trials, and hardships for future generations to eventually discover and enjoy.
Now, 52 years after Guttery’s death, his collection has been edited at last into a book that will appeal to all lovers of the American West. Rich, rough, and varied in tone, The Tales of a Town Named Bull City offers a detailed picture of daily life in a singular place and time in American history. Another volume in Ad Astra's ongoing Hall of Fame Series, it is an invaluable resource as a social and historical record for scholars and is also just a plain good read. Softbound, 276 pages on Superior Stock Paper. ISBN #978-1-60614-015-4. Price: $20.00.
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