| Abstract | Photo and biographical article about Sam Hastings, "a Kansas cowboy, a horse-trading mule-skinning frontiersman in the best shoot-em-up tradition," growing up near Fort Leavenworth and becoming a Confederate soldier and then railroad worker, moving to Weston, Missouri, in 1865 and traveling the West as a cowboy and Indian fighter with Buffalo Bill in the early 1870s, observing many buffalo and grasshoppers in the Great Plains, and becoming Leavenworth County sheriff in the late 1870s. |
