Two Kansas authors will visit Salina Public Library this week. Rod Beemer will give a presentation on his book “Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters” at 7 p.m. May 12th in the Prescott Room. Darcy Leech will sign copies of her book “From My Mother: Surviving and Thriving in a Family Ravaged by Genetic Disease” from 1 to 3 p.m. May 14th in the Information Services section of the library.
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Minneapolis-based author Rod Beemer will give a presentation on his book “Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters” at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Prescott Room at the Salina Public Library, 301 W. Elm.
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NOTORIOUS KANSAS BANK HEISTS and the gunslingers and gangsters who committed them will be the focus of author Rod Beemer’s keynote presentation during the 79th Annual Meeting of the Members of the Franklin County Historical Society on Sunday, January 31, 2 p.m. at Neosho County Community College in Ottawa, Kansas.
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IT WAS A SELLOUT today (Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015) at Books-A-Million in the Salina, Kansas, Central Mall. Readers turned out in such large numbers for Rod Beemer’s first book signing of his newest release, Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters, that the supplies on hand were exhausted within the first thirty minutes of the scheduled two-hour event.
Read moreTHE TELEVISION PROGRAM “AROUND KANSAS,” co-hosted by Deb Goodrich and Frank Chaffin, featured a segment on author Rod Beemer and his new book Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters this morning, Wednesday, December 16, 2015.
Goodrich declared, “This book is fantastic,” adding that it “… is the perfect Christmas gift.”
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SOON AFTER ROBBING the Chautauqua State Bank in 1911, outlaw Elmer McCurdy was killed by lawmen in a gun battle.
However, McCurdy wasn’t buried for another 66 years.
It seems that when McCurdy was embalmed, the undertaker added arsenic to the embalming fluids, which perfectly preserved the ex-outlaw for decades to come.
Read moreNotorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters by Rod Beemer brings to light the true history of bank robberies that plagued Kansas from the Civil War to World War II. This captivating story unfolds as the result of extensive research documented in thorough endnotes. Woven throughout the engaging narrative are excerpts taken from contemporary newspaper articles and witness accounts of the times.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Rod Beemer is confident readers will find his books fascinating. So much so, the Minneapolis-based author is offering a money-back guarantee.
“If you don’t learn something from them or find them fascinating, I’ll give you your money back,” he said.
So far, no one’s taken him up on the offer.
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This example was on display at the Trego County Historical Society Museum in Wakeeny, KS. The museum has six or seven of them and they are between five and six feet in length, forged from iron rod about one inch in diameter.
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Unfortunately, this quote cannot be fully attributed to Parker. However, her wit was not lacking.
“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
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