The Cattle Towns.

Book and dust jacket very good. First edition. Guns 656: "The author treats the Kansas cow towns from a different angle from that used by most writers dealing with this subject. He concentrates on their growth, economic condition, and decline rather than upon the lawlessness so often emphasized. The book is heavily annotated, and the author uses a distinctive method of numbering the footnotes.He mentions some of the gunmen of the cow towns, but they seem to be of secondary interest to him. I was glad to note that he does not claim that Wyatt Earp was in Ellsworth at the time Billy Thompson killed Sheriff Whitney." Six Score 35: "A social history of the Kansas cattle towns written almost entirely from primary sources. Few books have dealt seriously with the realities of life in the cattle trading centers of Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, and Dodge City, and none as well or as completely as this.".