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. Meredith

Contents
 
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

 
Facing page
Frank M. Stahl......................
38
Jennie Dickson......................
38
Stahl in later years.................
38
Trip card of the New Lucy.....
39
The steamer Wm. J. Lewis.....
39
Santa Fe Trail Ruts................
54
Cimarron Crossing................
54
Fort Harker Guardhouse.......
55
Last Chance Store................
55