Hidden history of Kinsley /
Settlers in Kinsely, Kansas, predicted that their home would be the next "great metropolis." Boons and busts came and went, and Kinsely never realized this dream. Instead, this town, once described as "Wild and Wooly," much like its neighbor; the infamous Dodge City, fostered cul...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charleston, South Carolina :
The History Press,
2025.
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| Summary: | Settlers in Kinsely, Kansas, predicted that their home would be the next "great metropolis." Boons and busts came and went, and Kinsely never realized this dream. Instead, this town, once described as "Wild and Wooly," much like its neighbor; the infamous Dodge City, fostered cultural activity of a city many times its size. Its poets and artists intermingled with vagabond entertainers, snake oil swindlers, hypnotists, multilingual automatons, elocutionists and Shakespeareans. By the 1910s, there was a published poet on every street and an aspiring actor around every corner. Local stars even went on to Hollywood and New York. Historians Joan Weaver and William Wolfgang explore how this remote community earned its recently rediscovered title, the "Drama Capital of the West." |
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| Physical Description: | 174 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781467158343 1467158348 |