Floyd Benjamin Streeter

Floyd Benjamin Streeter (1888–1956) was an American historian and writer. He is best known for his biography of Ben Thompson.

Streeter was a historian and librarian of Hays City Kansas State College (now Fort Hays State University) and worked as an archivist for the Michigan Historical Commission for whom he assembled a 750+ page Michigan bibliography listing over 7000 books and pamphlets, published in 1921.[1][2] [3]

Streeter wrote a number of books on topics related to the Old West for children and adults.[4][5][6] Streeter conducted research that discredited Wyatt Earp’s claim to have arrested Ben Thompson in Ellsworth, Kansas on August 15, 1873.

Works

Books:

  • Political Parties in Michigan (University Series IV, Michigan Historical Publications 1918)
  • Michigan Bibliography: A Partial Catalogue of Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Miscellaneous Materials Relating to the Resources, Development and History of Michigan from Earliest Times to July 1, 1917: Together with Citation of Libraries in which the Materials May Be Consulted, and a Complete Analytical Index By Subject and Author. (Lansing, Michigan Historical Commission, 1921. 2 volumes)
  • Journal in America 1837-1838 by Joshua Toulmin Smith Edited with Introduction and Notes by Floyd Benjamin Streeter. (Charles F. Heartman, Metuchen, NJ, 1925)
  • Prairie Trails & Cow Towns: The Opening of the Old West, (Chapman & Grimes, Boston, 1936)
  • Longhorns, Shorthorns; The Life and Times of Captain Eugene Bartlett Millett, a Cattleman of the Old West, (manuscript, 1940's, University of Kansas)
  • The Kaw: Heart of the Nation (Farrar and Rinehart, New York, 1941) (The 12th volume in the Rivers of America Series)
  • The Kansas Library Association' (1953)
  • The Phantom Steer (Ariel Books, New York, 1953)
  • Ben Thompson: Man with a Gun (F. Fell, New York 1957)

Articles:

  • The Millett Cattle Ranch in Baylor County, Texas, Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 22 (1949)
  • Some Eastern Newspaper Men Who Wrote Books on the Kansas Territory, American Book Collector: A Monthly Magazine for Book Lovers, Vol. IV, Number 5, November, 1933.

References & Sources
  1. "Journal in America, 1837-1838, by Joshua Toulmin Smith; edited with introduction and notes by Floyd Benjamin Streeter". HathiTrust. 2010-09-22. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
  2. "Michigan bibliography : A partial catalogue of books, maps, manuscripts and miscellaneous materials relating to the resources, development and history ... v.1". HathiTrust. 2020-10-05. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
  3. Streeter, Floyd Benjamin (1922). ""Review and Notes"". Indiana Magazine of History. Indiana University Department of History. 18 (4): 387–388. ISSN 0019-6673. JSTOR 27786050. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
  4. Reynolds, Horace (1941-03-02). "The History of Kansas Flows With the Kaw River; Mr. Streeter Presents That Story as a Trilogy of Border Wars, Cow Towns and Wheat THE KAW: The Heart of a Nation. By Floyd Benjamin Streeter". The New York Times. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
  5. "Children and Young Adult Literature". Map of Kansas Literature. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
  6. Rane, Jordan (2017-05-11). "Best Of The West: Dodge City, Kansas". Cowboys and Indians Magazine. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
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