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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The lives of a female Civil War soldier and a Civil War artist-correspondent converge at the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19, 1864. It’s a compelling story that suggests this female soldier was a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor for her actions at Cedar Creek.
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Dad has completed the manuscript for his new book about George Armstrong Custer and is now wrapping up the editing process. Soon it will be off to publication. He has done extensive research for this project which will be readily apparent in the text.
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BENNINGTON — A voracious reader from childhood, Rod Beemer remembered the day in 1960 when he purchased an entire set of the Encyclopædia Britannica with his own money.
It was a proud moment until his mother, a teacher, found out how much her 18-year-old son had spent on the multivolume set — nearly $700.
“My mom told me she could have bought the books for half the price,” he said.
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