Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and Buffalo

Nearing 60, William D. Street (1851-1911) sat down to write his memoir of frontier life. Street''s early years on the plains of western Kansas were both ordinary and extraordinary; ordinary in what they reveal about the everyday life of so many who went out to the western frontier, extraordinary in their breadth and depth of historical event and impact. His tales of life as a teamster, cavalryman,...