What variety of pie cherry?

I had a pie cherry tree that recently broke off in a storm. We loved this tree and would like to replace it with the same variety, but do not know the variety. It produced a great yield of red-skin, yellow-meat pie (tart) cherries every year, without fail, even when there was a late frost (it was very hardy). The cherries ripened early–right around Memorial weekend, or shortly thereafter. I live in NE Kansas (zone 5b). Any idea what variety of cherry it might have been? The varieties I have seen in local nurseries claim they don’t ripen until July–I would much rather have my early-ripening variety.

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#1 Comment By shelley On 05/19/2015 @ 1:38 am

My best guesses are that it is a north star cherry:
http://www.starkbros.com/products/fruit-trees/cherry-trees/north-star-pie-cherry ^[1]

or a montmorency pie cherry
http://www.starkbros.com/products/fruit-trees/cherry-trees/stark-montmorency-pie-cherry ^[2]

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