Floyd Benjamin Streeter was an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

 and writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

 best known for his biography of Ben Thompson

Ben Thompson

Ben Thompson was a gunman, gambler, and sometime lawman of the Old West. He was a contemporary of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill Cody, Doc Holliday, John Wesley Hardin and James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickock, some of whom considered him a trusted friend, others an enemy.Ben Thompson had a colorful career,...

.

Floyd Benjamin Streeter was a historian and librarian of Hays City Kansas State College (now Fort Hays State University

Fort Hays State University

Fort Hays State University is a public, co-educational university located in Hays, Kansas, United States. It is the fourth-largest of the six state universities governed by the Kansas Board of Regents, with an enrollment of approximately 11,200 students .- History :FHSU was founded in 1902 as the...

). Streeter wrote a number of books on topics related to the Old West. Streeter conducted research that discredited Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American gambler, investor, and law enforcement officer who served in several Western frontier towns. He was also at different times a farmer, teamster, bouncer, saloon-keeper, miner and boxing referee. However, he was never a drover or cowboy. He is most well known...

’s claim to have arrested Ben Thompson in Ellsworth, KS 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
  Rivers of America Series
  The Rivers of America Series is a landmark series of books on American rivers, for the most part written by literary figures rather than historians. The series spanned three publishers and thirty-seven years.- History :...
  
  )
• 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.