The Merchant Prince of Dodge City: The Life and Times of Robert M. Wright

by C. Robert Haywood

Haywood (history emeritus, Washburn U., Topeka, Kansas) chronicles the parallels in the bronco-like rides of the trail-driving industry fortunes and 1890s depression misfortunes of one of Dodge City's leading citizens and 19th-century America's foremost cattle town. Includes a map of Wright's "princely domain" and several early photos. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

236 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1998

About the author

C. Robert Haywood grew up on a farm in Ford County, Kansas, south of Dodge City, during the "dust bowl" period, the setting for The Preacher's Kid, a set of stories told by Bobby Woodward--a boy the author insists is not autobiographical. He went on to Dodge City Junior College, then, after time in the Navy during World War II, went to the University of Kansas for his B.A. (1947) and M.A. (1948) in history. He taught history at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, for some years, then, after earning his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina (1956), became Dean of Southwestern, and then of Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, before coming to Washburn University in that capacity. But he was always first a teacher, and returned to the classroom as distinguished Professor of History at Washburn for several years before his retirement. Over the years, he has been very popular as a speaker, has published widely in academic periodicals, and has a series of books on the history the Dodge City region--Trails South and Cowtown Lawyers with University of Oklahoma Press, and The Victorian West with the University of Kansas Press--but the Preacher's Kid is his major work of fiction. -- from: https://www.washburn.edu/reference/br...

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[Rex]

God history.