Three Years / In The / Kansas Hell / Or / From A Life Of Honor To A Murderer's Cell

Overdorf, B.L.

Published by Central Kansas Publishing Co; Salina, Ks; nc/1900; 90 pp.; Wraps; Poor, 1900

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LACKS THE ORIGINAL PAPER COVERS. _____ The first twenty pages cover his early adult life in Indiana as a school teacher. _____ He subsequently changed locales and careers. _____ While running a saloon "in a certain city in Kansas", the author shot and killed a soldier. _____ Pages 22-54 describe that event and the subsequent three years at hard labor in the Kansas Penitentiary at Lansing in Leavenworth County from January 1896 to June 1898. _____ The remainder of the book describes his life after release. _____ First continuing his rascally ways in saloons and con games, later as a reformed Christian on the lecture circuit. _____  Illustrated with a single frontispiece portrait of the author. _____ Not in WorldCat (07/22) or Suvak. _____. Seller Inventory # 34654

Bibliographic Details

Title: Three Years / In The / Kansas Hell / Or / ...

Publisher: Central Kansas Publishing Co; Salina, Ks; nc/1900; 90 pp.; Wraps; Poor

Publication Date: 1900

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Poor

Edition: 1st Edition