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Wichita, KS: Rowfant Press , 2011 Rowfant Press, Wichita, KS. 2011. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition by Rowfant. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 300 pp 8vo. The author was a first generation Irish who writes of his family and his upbringing on a farmstead at the Arkansas River and South Hydraulic Street in Wichita Kansas where he was born in 1885. His father, Florence or Big Flurry, was from Ireland, married a girl from New York and moved to Wichita to become a farmer, a profession he was not good at. The author tells of family life, his upbringing, the problems of being Irish and Catholic in Kansas, and of a multitude of family problems both farming and marital. The author went on to graduate from Friends University, was the editor of the Wichita Eagle in 1912, and later moved to New York where he was a successful journalist and columnist. A clean…
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- Title Kansas Irish
- Author Charles B. Driscoll
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 300
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Rowfant Press
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781929731091 / 1929731094
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Driscoll, Charles B - Childhood and youth
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010034628
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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