Kansas: A History of the Jayhawk State
by William Frank Zornow
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Good +
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961 University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. 1961. Hardcover. Stated 2nd Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good+; light bumping to head, tail, and upper tips; light dust soiling to textblock top. DJ: Good+; NOT Price Clipped ($4.95); chipping and missing small pieces to head, tail, and tips; closed tear to top of rear panel; belt buckle on Brown on front board has been inked blue. Khaki cloth boards and spine with black lettering in a cream shadowbox on the spine. 417 pp 8vo. The author attempts to correct the usual writing that ends Kansas history with the firing on Fort Sumter as the state really has a very rich history that predates Jamestown by half a century. The author gives presentation to the prehistory stage, the Civil War period, the cattle towns, the Progressive era and William Allen White, World War I, the dust bowl and great depression, the post World War II era and the growth of big agro and aviation. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016337
- Title
- Kansas: A History of the Jayhawk State
- Author
- William Frank Zornow
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Place of Publication
- Norman, OK
- Date Published
- 1961
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Kansas history, Jayhawk State history, Indian History, agriculture, Civil War, Bleeding kansas, wheat farming, Progressivism, William Allen White, Aviation, The Dust Bowl, The Great Depression,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Kansas Related; Civil War;
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