A Kansas Notable BookNearing 60, William D. Street (1851–1911)
sat down to write his memoir of frontier life. Street’s early
years on the plains of western Kansas were both ordinary and
extraordinary; ordinary in what they reveal about the everyday life
of so many who went out to the western frontier, extraordinary in
their breadth and depth of historical event and impact. His tales
of life as a teamster, cavalryman, town developer, trapper, buffalo
hunter, military scout, and cowboy put us squarely in the middle of
such storied events as Sheridan’s 1868–1869 winter campaign on
the southern Plains and the Cheyenne Exodus of 1878. They take us
trapping beaver and hunting buffalo for hides and meat, and driving
cattle on the Great Western Cattle Trail. They give us insight into
his evolving understanding of his multi-decade relationship with
the Lakota. And they give us a front-row seat at the founding and
development of Jewell and Gaylord, Kansas, and a firsthand look at
the formation of Jewell’s “Buffalo Militia.” In later life
Street rose to prominence as a newspaper publisher, state
legislator, and regent of the Kansas State Agricultural College. At
the time of his death—noted in the New York Times—he was still
at work on his memoir. Handed down through his family over the past
century and faithfully transcribed here, Street’s story of
frontier life is as rich in history as it is in character, giving
us a sense of what it was to be not just a witness to, but a player
in, the drama of the plains as it unfolded in the late nineteenth
century. Edited by Street’s great-grandson, with an introduction
by Richard Etulain, a leading scholar of the West, this memoir is
history as it was lived, recalled in sharp detail and recounted in
engaging prose, for the ages.
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