{"product_id":"hidden-history-of-kinsley-joan-k-weaver-9781467158343","title":"Hidden History of Kinsley","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Story Behind the City \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSettlers in Kinsley, Kansas, predicted that their home would be the next \"great metropolis.\" Booms and busts came and went, and Kinsley never realized this dream. Instead, this town, once described as \"Wild and Woolly,\" much like its neighbor, the infamous Dodge City, fostered the cultural activity of a city many times its size. Its poets and artists intermingled with vagabond entertainers, snake oil swindlers, hypnotists, multilingual automatons, elocutionists and Shakespeareans. By the 1910s, there was a published poet on every street and an aspiring actor around every corner. Local stars even went on to Hollywood and New York. Historians Joan Weaver and William Wolfgang explore how this remote community earned its recently rediscovered title, the \"Drama Capital of the West.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joan K. Weaver,William Floyd Wolfgang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1467158348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781467158343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e History Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Joan K. Weaver","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47304721039615,"sku":"9781467158343","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d0f0f703-07ee-49e0-9e63-adb3dd493349.jpg?v=1758828960","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hidden-history-of-kinsley-joan-k-weaver-9781467158343","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}