Return to the Table of Contents<\/a><\/p>\nTable of Contents<\/h1>\n
Foreword–1<\/p>\n
Prologue–3<\/p>\n
The Beginning–7<\/p>\n
Waggoner’s Addition and the Barbed Wire Fence–15<\/p>\n
The Neutral Strip or No Man’s Land–20<\/p>\n
Denison, or Pedro–22<\/p>\n
Strong Prejudices–27<\n\nThe Crusaders and the Columnists--30\n\nAn Early Pamphlet--32\n\nClark Braden's Pamphlet--38\n\nMr. Walser's Residence in Liberal--45\n\nThe Incorporation of Liberal--48\n\nThe Liberal City Cemetery--50\n\nThe Old Gold Well--55\n\nThe Saloons Came--61\n\nThe Churches Came--66\n\nThe Spiritualist Movement--71\n\nSpiritualist Hoax Exposed--75\n\nCatalpa Park--78\n\nCity Park and the Old Fire Bell--80\n\nEarly Public Buildings--82\n\nThe Spiritual Science Association and the Old Spook Hall--84\n\nLike Shifting Sands--91\n\nEarly Benevolent Societies--93\n\nRecollections of an Early Resident--94\n\nMr. Walser's Marital Life--99\n\nA Midnight Burial--101\n\nThe Big Fire of 1887--105\n\nCivil Liberal at Turn of Century--107\n\nIndustrially -- Early--109\n\nThe Cranks Came--113\n\nThe Town Pump and the Old Watering Trough--115\n\n>Mrs. Burgess-Oster and the Burgess Tomb–118<\/p>\n
Bitter Creek–122<\/p>\n
Some Early Day Eccentrics–124<\/p>\n
Briefs of Other Persons and Facts–133<\/p>\n
Liberal’s Early Schools–139<\/p>\n
Liberal’s Newspapers–141<\/p>\n
Mr. Walser, the Man–144<\/p>\n
Words of a Grandson–156<\/p>\n
Freelove and the Common-Law Marriage–158<\/p>\n
O. E. Harmon’s Story of Liberal–163<\/p>\n
In Conclusion–166<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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