num_pages: 64
description: From the "The town of Council Grove [Kansas] centers an area abounding in history and certainly one of its more intriguing facets has been the person of Kittie Parker Robbins Hays. Left orphaned by her mother's death and her father's rejection, her adoption and rearing by a bachelor frontier trader and former slave made her early childhood unique. Upon hearing of Kittie's place in the Seth Hays household and his death when she was eleven, visitors to Council Grove invariably present the question, 'Whatever happened to little Kittie?' For too long an adequate response has not been available, and the purpose of this writing has been to provide an answer to that question. ... Kittie was born during the first rumblings of the Civil War, and her life spanned eighty years into the months of uneasy prelude to World War II. ..." From the back "Kittie followed her own trail from her pioneer beginning in the frontier town of Council Grove, Kansas to Los Angeles, California, with many stops along the way. She was destined to a hard childhood afer her adoptive 'parents' died, but she maintained her dignity and zest for living as she following the path of life."
language: English
title: Miss Kittie Hays: Grand lady of the frontier
titlecomplete: Miss Kittie Hays: Grand lady of the frontier
publisher: Hearth Pub