Clyde W. Toland

Lawyer, Historian

Clyde W. Toland received a BA in history from the University of Kansas, a MA in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a JD from the University of Kansas. He is a retired lawyer, having practiced for 48 years in Iola, Kansas, his hometown.

As a grade school student, he became fascinated by his local Allen County, Kansas history and by Frederick Funston’s early adventurous life in Death Valley, Alaska, the British Northwest Territory, and Cuba. For more than thirty-five years, he has been a student of Funston’s life. Funston, the fighting bantam general of the U. S. Army, was a mere 5 feet, four inches in height and for most of his life weighed a scant 120 pounds. He was widely read, fearless, modest, and adored by his soldiers. He was mourned as a national hero at his death at age 51in 1917, and 10,000 people passed his casket as he lay in state in the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.

Books by this Author

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American Hero, Kansas Heritage - Frederick Funston’s Early Years 1865-1890

Heat and Ice - Frederick Funston's Exploration of Death Valley, Alaska, and the British Northwest Territory 1891-1894

Yankee HERO - Frederick Funston, Expedicionario in the Cuban Liberation Army 1896-1897

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