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Before she was Wichita, Kansas, she was a assortment of grass huts, home to the ancestors of the Wichita Indians. Then emerged the Spanish conquistadors, seeking silver but finding instead great herds of buffalo. After the Civil War, Wichita played number to a cavalcade of American men: frontier soldiers, Indian warriors, buffalo hunters, border ruffians, hell-for-leather Tx cattle drovers, ready-to-die gunslingers, and steel-eyed lawmen. Peerless Princess of the Plains, they called her. Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Bat Masterson were here, but so were Jesse Chisholm, Jack port Ledford, Rowdy Joe and Rowdy Kate, Buffalo Costs Mathewson, Marshall Mike Meagher, Indian trader James Mead, Oklahoma Harry Hill, city founder Dutch Costs Greiffenstein, and a bunch of colorful heroes like you've never known before. Stan Hoig depicts a once-rambunctious cowtown on the Chisholm Cattle Trail, neighbor to the lawless Indian Place, roaring and bucking through its Outdoors West days toward becoming a major American city. Cowtown Wichita and the Outdoors, Wicked West provides tribute to those sometimes valiant, sometimes wicked, sometimes amusing, and often audacious heroes who played a role in shaping Wichita's former. The book is shared by College or university of New Mexico Press.
