Floyd Benjamin Streeter

Floyd Benjamin Streeter (1888–1956) was an American historian and writer. He is best known for his biography of Ben Thompson.

Streeter was a historian and librarian of Hays City Kansas State College (now Fort Hays State University) and worked as an archivist for the Michigan Historical Commission for whom he assembled a 750+ page Michigan bibliography listing over 7000 books and pamphlets, published in 1921.^{[1][2] [3]}

Streeter wrote a number of books on topics related to the Old West for children and adults.^[4][5][6] Streeter conducted research that discredited Wyatt Earp’s claim to have arrested Ben Thompson in Ellsworth, Kansas on August 15, 1873.

Works

Books:

• Political Parties in Michigan (University Series IV, Michigan Historical Publications 1918)
• Michigan Bibliography: A Partial Catalogue of Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Miscellaneous Materials Relating to the Resources, Development and History of Michigan from Earliest Times to July 1, 1917: Together with Citation of Libraries in which the Materials May Be Consulted, and a Complete Analytical Index By Subject and Author. (Lansing, Michigan Historical Commission, 1921. 2 volumes)
• Journal in America 1837-1838 by Joshua Toulmin Smith Edited with Introduction and Notes by Floyd Benjamin Streeter. (Charles F. Heartman, Metuchen, NJ, 1925)
• Prairie Trails & Cow Towns: The Opening of the Old West, (Chapman & Grimes, Boston, 1936)
• Longhorns, Shorthorns; The Life and Times of Captain Eugene Bartlett Millett, a Cattleman of the Old West, (manuscript, 1940's, University of Kansas)
• The Kaw: Heart of the Nation (Farrar and Rinehart, New York, 1941) (The 12th volume in the Rivers of America Series)
• The Kansas Library Association' (1953)
• The Phantom Steer (Ariel Books, New York, 1953)
• Ben Thompson: Man with a Gun (F. Fell, New York 1957)

Articles:

• The Millett Cattle Ranch in Baylor County, Texas, Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 22 (1949)
• Some Eastern Newspaper Men Who Wrote Books on the Kansas Territory, American Book Collector: A Monthly Magazine for Book Lovers, Vol. IV, Number 5, November, 1933.