The Jayhawker Cleveland: Phantom Horseman of the Prairie
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The Jayhawker Cleveland: Phantom Horseman of the Prairie (a Novel)
By: David Hann
The Free State of Kansas and the slave state of Missouri are the backdrop of this tale of heroic deeds and fatal mistakes. David Hann takes the reader on a trail ride through a gritty time in the American West when people were pitted against each other and some had to choose sides in a life-and-death battle of ideas.
A legend in his own time, Marshall L Cleveland rode into Leavenworth alone in June, 1861 to view his own "Wanted Dead or Alive" poster. No one in that town of 12,000 inhabitants, nor any soldiers from Fort Leavenworth, attempted to collect the reward, and Cleveland rode slowly out of town, tipping his hat.
Culled from 1860s newspaper articles and published reports of a tumultuous and violent era in American history. Hann describes how Cleveland, went from a naïve youth to a man of ruthless courage, a liberator of slaves and horses, found brief but deadly fame during the Kansas Missouri Border War.
Though written for the Young Adult audience, others will find this book of interest and enjoyment as well.
Paperback; 182 pages
ISBN: 978-1941237762
About the Author
David Hann retired from the Univeristy of Kansas in 2009.
He has since then spent his time questing for the curious by pouring over museum archives, traveling the back roads of Kansas and throughout the US, where he has numerous adventures like being surrounded by running buffalo at night in the rain, having a mountain lion cub jumped into the backseat of his car and refusing to leave or receiving a full-face lick from Skinny, a rather hefty buffalo at Ray Smith's ranch near Longford, Kansas. Just to name a few.
When not adventuring, he lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
By: David Hann
The Free State of Kansas and the slave state of Missouri are the backdrop of this tale of heroic deeds and fatal mistakes. David Hann takes the reader on a trail ride through a gritty time in the American West when people were pitted against each other and some had to choose sides in a life-and-death battle of ideas.
A legend in his own time, Marshall L Cleveland rode into Leavenworth alone in June, 1861 to view his own "Wanted Dead or Alive" poster. No one in that town of 12,000 inhabitants, nor any soldiers from Fort Leavenworth, attempted to collect the reward, and Cleveland rode slowly out of town, tipping his hat.
Culled from 1860s newspaper articles and published reports of a tumultuous and violent era in American history. Hann describes how Cleveland, went from a naïve youth to a man of ruthless courage, a liberator of slaves and horses, found brief but deadly fame during the Kansas Missouri Border War.
Though written for the Young Adult audience, others will find this book of interest and enjoyment as well.
Paperback; 182 pages
ISBN: 978-1941237762
About the Author
David Hann retired from the Univeristy of Kansas in 2009.
He has since then spent his time questing for the curious by pouring over museum archives, traveling the back roads of Kansas and throughout the US, where he has numerous adventures like being surrounded by running buffalo at night in the rain, having a mountain lion cub jumped into the backseat of his car and refusing to leave or receiving a full-face lick from Skinny, a rather hefty buffalo at Ray Smith's ranch near Longford, Kansas. Just to name a few.
When not adventuring, he lives in Lawrence, Kansas.