Excerpt from Reminiscences in the Early Sixties: From the Lives of Three Brothers I, being one of the early settlers, naturally had some part in local politics. Owing to the Kansas Brown condition there were some harsh and unreasonable utterances. Occasionally a claim owner or ranchman would be in town and of course have his say. A Mr. Putman became very much offended at me and threatened to shoot me. Not being seriously alarmed at his threat I did not avoid him. Whether he was only bluffing, or changed his mind, and also his plans, I never knew, but was of course glad to escape unhurt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.