Life & Adventures of Polk Wells, The Notorious Outlaw
Entry/Object ID
L1966.023.00012
Description
Life & Adventures of Polk Wells, The Notorious Outlaw. Wells live in southtern Buchanan County. Tells of life as gueriila during the Civil War. Also on Cover "Whose Acts of fearlessness and chivalry kept the Frontier trails afire with excitement and whose robberies and other depredation in the Platte Purchase and elsewhere have been a most frequent discussion to this day. All of which transpired during and just after the Civil War." Polk Wells father married the mother of Johnny Fry (First Pony Express Rider out of St. Joseph)..
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