Daughter of the Sword (59 page)

Authors: Jeanne Williams

References & Acknowledgments

Books very helpful to me which are generally available and should interest those wishing to read more about this period are:
Civil War on the Western Border, 1854â1865,
by Jay Monaghan, Bonanza Books;
The Kaw,
by Floyd Benjamin Streeter, Rinehart, 1941;
Vanguards of the Frontier,
by Everett Dick, Bison Books, University of Nebraska, 1965;
The Dixie Frontier,
by Everett Dick, Knopf, 1948;
The Sod-House Frontier,
by Everett Dick, Johnsen Publishing Co., 1954;
Bowie Knife,
by Raymond W. Thorp, University of New Mexico Press, 1948;
The Common Soldier in the Civil War,
by Bell Iryin Wiley, Grosset & Dunlap by arrangement with Bobbs-Merrill;
The Old Santa Fe Trail,
by Stanley Vestal, Houghton Mifflin, 1939; and
The Look of the Old West,
by Foster-Harris, Viking, 1955.

Other valuable books have been:
A History of Lawrence, Kansas,
by Richard Cordley, reproduced for the Douglas County Genealogical Society by Walsworth Publishing Company from the 1895 Caldwell edition;
John Brown,
edited by Richard Warch and Jonathan Fanton, Prentice-Hall, 1973;
Recollections of Early Days in Kansas,
by S. W. Eldridge, Kansas State Historical Society, Vol. II, Topeka, Kansas, 1920;
The Annals of Kansas,
by N. W. Wilder, Topeka, Kansas, 1886;
History of Kansas,
by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, 1883;
A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans,
by William E. Connelly, Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and N.Y., 1919;
The Negro's Civil War,
by James McPherson, Pantheon, 1965; and
Colonel Colt London,
by Joseph G. Rosa, Fortress Publications, Ontario.

Tremendously useful, too, were microfilms of
The Herald of Freedom
and other items in the Kansas Collection in the Research Library at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. I wish to thank their staff, also the reference librarians at the Lawrence Public Library and the very friendly people at the Douglas County Historical Society, Lawrence.

Thanks to Kristin, who read as I worked and cheered me on; to Leila, whose typing brings order out of chaos; to Claire Smith, who didn't panic when the book went in a new direction, and to Rex Alan Smith, who generously shared information about early days on the plains and who gave me much of the detail for Johnny Chaudoin, the old buffalo hunter who'd lived among Sioux. Rex's
Moon of Popping Trees
(Reader's Digest Press) gives a perspective on the whiteâIndian confrontation which was most valuable to me in dealing with that issue in this book.

About the Author

Born on the High Plains near the tracks of the Santa Fe Trail, Jeanne Williams's first memories are of dust storms, tumbleweeds, and cowboy songs. Her debut novel,
Tame the Wild Stallion
, was published in 1957. Since then, Williams has published sixty-eight more books, most with the theme of losing one's home and identity and beginning again with nothing but courage and hope, as in the Spur Awardâwinning
The Valiant Women
(1980). She was recently inducted into the Western Writers Hall of Fame, and has won four Western Writers of America Spur Awards and the Levi Strauss Saddleman Award. For over thirty years, Williams has lived in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona.

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