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.
^Streeter, Floyd Benjamin (1922). ""Review and Notes"". Indiana Magazine of History. 18 (4). Indiana University Department of History: 387–388. ISSN0019-6673. JSTOR27786050. Retrieved 2023-05-15.