Stafford County native Lynda Beck Fenwick has spent years straddling two centuries as she researched historical events for her third book to be published, Prairie Bachelor, The Story of a Kansas Homesteader and the Populist Movement, scheduled for December 2020 release by the University Press of Kansas. Fort Hays State University Forsyth Library will host Fenwick, a 1966 FHSU Tigers alumna, for a guided discussion of Prairie Bachelor–which she based on the 480-page journal of Stafford County homesteader Isaac Beckley Werner–on Tuesday, December 1, with the program also available for public viewing online via Zoom. … “Werner’s journal gave me a front-row seat to the years Stafford County farmers and ranchers struggled to survive in a world increasingly controlled by the wealthy,” said Fenwick, who for the last ten years has traveled with her husband, Larry, to places Werner had lived and frequented as she carried out her research.
Source: Leavenworth Times
