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Topeka - Bok av Greg a Hoots - Inbunden

Topeka - Bok av Greg a Hoots - Inbunden

The city of Topeka was founded on December 5, 1854, by nine men who made camp by the Kansas River at what is today the intersection of First and Kansas Avenues. During Kansas's territorial days, Topeka played a leading role in the Free State movement. In 1858, Topeka was voted the Shawnee County seat, and in 1859 secured the position of state capital at the final constitutional convention, which took effect when Kansas achieved statehood in 1861. In the century and a half that followed, Topeka grew..

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Pflugerville - Bok av Audrey T Dearing, Vernagene H Mott, m.fl. - Inbunden

Pflugerville - Bok av Audrey T Dearing, Vernagene H Mott, m.fl. - Inbunden

When the early settlers arrived in the 1850s, the Blackland Prairie was covered with four-foot sage grass on which buffalo grazed. Land was cleared, homes were built, crops were planted in the rich fertile soil, and cattle were driven, via the Chisholm Trail, to market in Kansas. The village of Pflugerville in northeast Travis County received its name in 1893 when postal service was approved. In 1904, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad established a depot on land donated by George Pfluger. The railroad..

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Kearney - Bok av Arlynn Leiber Presser - Inbunden

Kearney - Bok av Arlynn Leiber Presser - Inbunden

Kearney, Missouri, is just 25 miles northeast of Kansas City, and though it's a quiet farming and ranching community, its close proximity to the downtown area makes it the perfect place for commuters who want a small town to come home to. Officially incorporated in 1869 and most likely named for Charles E. Kearney, president of the Kansas City and Cameron Railroad, Kearney is best known as the birthplace of outlaw Jesse James and his brother Frank. The James brothers joined with the Younger brothers..

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Wichita's Lebanese Heritage - Bok av Professor of History Jay M (Wichita State University) Price, Victoria Foth Sherry, m.fl. - Inbunden

Wichita's Lebanese Heritage - Bok av Professor of History Jay M (Wichita State University) Price, Victoria Foth Sherry, m.fl. - Inbunden

Wichita, a city of entrepreneurs, offered an ideal home for Middle Eastern Christians who started arriving in the 1890s. Initially identifying themselves as Syrians, they operated as peddlers across southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Peddling rapidly gave way to wholesale, grocery, and dry goods companies. Patriarchs such as N. F. Farha and E. G. Stevens established themselves in local business and civic circles. Primarily Eastern Orthodox, the Lebanese established two churches, St. George Orthodox..

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Flint Hills - Bok av Greg a Hoots - Inbunden

Flint Hills - Bok av Greg a Hoots - Inbunden

The Kansas Flint Hills stretch across a dozen counties in the eastern half of the Sunflower State. The region boasts rolling hills covered in native grasses, including the tallgrass varieties unique to the area. Dubbed the \Great American Desert\ by pioneers facing the prairie's vastness, the rich grassland became home to settlers pursuing ranching and farming enterprises. Images of America: Flint Hills presents over 200 historic images from a half-dozen counties in the region. Included are vintage..

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Pampa - Bok av Anne Davidson, Deborah Chambers, m.fl. - Inbunden

Pampa - Bok av Anne Davidson, Deborah Chambers, m.fl. - Inbunden

The Panhandle's first railroad, the Southern Kansas Railway of Texas, was constructed in 1886. Reaching Amarillo in 1889, the railway pulled cars filled with immigrant families and their belongings. The settlers were farmers from the east and south who came west to find water and cheap land. George Tyng, an adventurous fortune seeker, began leasing ranch land in 1887. A rail station was constructed, and Tyng eventually settled on the name \Pampa,\ a South American word that means \plains.\ Tyng..

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Lawrence - Survivors of Quantrill's Raid - Bok av Katie H Armitage - Inbunden

Lawrence - Survivors of Quantrill's Raid - Bok av Katie H Armitage - Inbunden

Stunned and grieving survivors stared into their burned-out town on the western frontier in the midst of the Civil War. William C. Quantrill's Missouri guerillas raided Lawrence, Kansas, on August 21, 1863, and killed 180 men and boys. Women lost husbands, children lost fathers, and fathers lost sons. Every one of the 2,500 residents lost either a loved one, a neighbor, or acquaintance. A few left town but most survivors were determined to remain and remember; not to \wink out.\ Newcomers brought..

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Sugar Creek - Bok av Sugar Creek Historical Center & Richard N Piland - Inbunden

Sugar Creek - Bok av Sugar Creek Historical Center & Richard N Piland - Inbunden

During the 1840s and 1850s, many of the pioneers and much of the supplies they needed for overland trips west from Independence on the Oregon, California, and Santa Fe Trails arrived at Wayne City Landing, the steamboat port on the Missouri River in what is now Sugar Creek. In 1892, Arthur Stillwell, a Kansas City railroad man, founded Fairmount Park, a first-class pleasure resort in the southern part of Sugar Creek that would be popular until the 1930s. Standard Oil of Indiana purchased land at..

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Early Abilene - Bok av Jack E North - Inbunden

Early Abilene - Bok av Jack E North - Inbunden

During the 1870s, there was wondrous change in West Texas. The area was ripe for settlement, and as the Texas and Pacific Railroad pushed west from Fort Worth, towns began springing up along the tracks. Ranchers coming to the area took advantage of the vast grasslands, and the new arrival of settlers was the beginning of a town named Abilene. Deriving its namesake from the town of Abilene, Kansas, the locals hoped the city would become a shipping point for cattle on their way to eastern markets...

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Arkansas City - People, Places, and Events - Bok av Heather D Ferguson - Inbunden

Arkansas City - People, Places, and Events - Bok av Heather D Ferguson - Inbunden

Arkansas City: People, Places, and Events is a continuation of the story of Arkansas City. The first Arkansas City told a general history of the community and its origins, the major events that occurred, and the people who built and shaped the community. Arkansas City: People, Places, and Events delves deeper into the early pioneer history of this Kansas town. It covers more of the major founders who came into Osage territory not only making a home but creating a thriving community, major entertainers..

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Wichita's Riverside Parks - Bok av James E Mason - Inbunden

Wichita's Riverside Parks - Bok av James E Mason - Inbunden

\Wichita was founded in 1870 at the junction of the Little and Big Arkansas Rivers in south central Kansas. From the very beginning, the rivers have been a focus for social and recreational activity. Parks, both public and private, were established along these waterways near downtown to capitalize on this natural asset and have gone through many changes. Some of these parks are now over 100 years old, but one no longer exists, having literally been dug up and hauled away in wheelbarrows in 1933...

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