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