Kathy -- The first edition is available at the LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 978.189 V2b, also film #2055496, item 1. It is a great resource for any death the was recorded in a Courier obituary. However, one must be aware that although the Courier reported many Cowley County Deaths, not all Cowley County deaths were covered by this work. It is certainly the best place to start a search! This info from the Cowley County GenForum post #1: The book, "Births and Deaths of Cowley County, Kansas as Abstracted from the Winfield Daily Courier and Other Sources", Second Edition, published in 1999, ISBN 0-9617907-6-8 is now available only on CD-ROM from Lawrence Publishing, 264 S. Willo-Esque, Wichita, KS 67209. This 784 page book contains: (1) Genealogical abstracts of 7,729 birth announcements published in the newspaper during the included years. (2) Genealogical abstracts of 17,903 obituaries published in the newspaper during the included years. (3) The date of the newspaper in which each of these obituaries and birth announcements appeared. (4) The locations of 129 cemeteries in Cowley County, Kansas along with each known name that each of these cemeteries has been known by over the years. (5) A bibliography containing 46 additional sources used to supplement data that appeared in the newspaper. (6) A Table of Contents. (7) An index containing 7,012 surnames. (8) The entire book is on the CD in 3 different formats: Word for Windows 95, version 7.0 (.doc) Rich Text Format (.rtf) Text (.txt) This book on CD-ROM can be ordered for $50 U.S. postage paid from Lawrence Publishing, 264 S. Willo-Esque, Wichita, KS 67209