Book Table

This is not a true crime book filled with my assumptions - this is the actual first-hand news in the editorial style of the actual reporters and editors from these Territorial years on the Kansas prairie!  Purchasing this book will also give you access to continued updates to the stories as they are found, along with new "old news" stories of murder during this time period.  If you enjoy real life history and mystery as told by those who lived through it, this is a perfect book for you.  400 pages with 400+ murders is yours to contemplate in this book, ranging from bar-room brawls to Indian attacks, Bushwhackers and Jayhawks, domestic disputes and claim jumpers.

Eyewitness newspaper accounts recall scenes that took place when Harvey County was little but unbroken prairie.  Read the various accounts of life and death in this newly forming county, the very same reports that shocked and horrified your ancestors at the time.

Domestic disputes and affairs, forsaken loves, robbery and revenge.  This volume recounts over 90 murders in one Kansas county during the early 1900's, directly from the notes of those who lived through them.

Few things shake a community's tranquility than the words, "There's been an accident..." The wide variety of tragedies which jolted Harvey County, Kansas through the years are not particular to location, but the devastation caused by them within families has been immense.

Conflict between Indian Tribes and Eastern Pioneers became inevitable by 1854. These eyewitness, true-life accounts of murder and mayhem on the Kansas prairie provide fascinating insight into the deadly encounters during this period. Your ancestors would have read with amazement and horror these same tales of crime, murder, and wholesale butchery on the expanding frontier. Throw another log on the campfire and enjoy making this old news, new again.

Travel of every kind, in every locality, has carried along with its passenger a certain element of danger.  Whether as a pedestrian or horseback rider, or traveling by buggy, bicycle, train or automobile, families have tragically lost even the most careful travelers by these accidents.