Deeply moved by his mother's memories of a waning era and rapidly disappearing lifestyle, John Ise painstakingly recorded the adventures and adversities of his family and boyhood neighbors—the early homesteaders of Osborne County, Kansas. First published in 1936, his "nonfiction novel" Sod and Stubble has since become a widely read and much loved classic. In the original, Ise changed some identities and time sequences but accurately retained the...

This volume -- the first of two -- selects the very best work by Cleo Eldon "Don" Wilcox, who published nearly 100 novels and short stories in the Ziff-Davis pulp magazines (including Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, and Fantastic Adventures). Volume 1 features his most famous story, "The Whispering Gorilla," plus the novel "The Hollow Planet," and the stories "The Dictator of Peace," "Whirlpool in Space," "Mademoiselle Butterfly," and "Secret...

Starting a town from scratch and building it into a prosperous community is always an uncertain goal. Bull City, Kansas was at first the quintessential 1870s frontier settlement in the American West - primitive, a bit wild, and certainly rough around the edges. But its earliest residents had a dream of building a better life there for themselves and their families, and after fifteen years the town had changed both its name and its "wild and woolly"...