{"product_id":"hidden-history-of-kinsley-paperback-1","title":"Hidden History of Kinsley - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoan K. Weaver\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWilliam Floyd Wolfgang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoan K. Weaver recently retired as the director of the Kinsley Public Library in Kinsley, Kansas. She has conducted eighty-five oral histories of local citizens, which capture life in Edwards County from the Dust Bowl days through World War II. Originally from Michigan, she earned her degree from Eastern Michigan University and spent many years teaching English, speech and drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Floyd Wolfgang, PhD, is a full-time lecturer in English literature at Stevenson University in Owings Mills, Maryland. After serving as a special researcher at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in the United Kingdom, he completed the first major study of community-based Shakespeare performance in the United States. For the last six years, his studies have taken him to Kinsley, Kansas, where he continues uncovering early twentieth-century Shakespeare festivals and community-based arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47520956317917,"sku":"9781467158343","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/ZFB8fQgAUO9781467158343_2f686cee-6319-43d1-83bb-2ee15f24f18a.webp?v=1772249092","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/hidden-history-of-kinsley-paperback-1","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}