Central Kansas Library System

This illustrated guide to Kansas ghost towns will delight travelers and armchair tourists alike. Organized by region, it tells the story of 100 towns that have either disappeared without a trace or are only "a shadowy remnant of what they once were." Fitzgerald chronicles each town's settlement, politics, colorful figures and legends, and eventual abandonment or decline. Ten maps and detailed intructions for finding each site are included.

An extensive update, this edition includes, for the first time, 96 color photographs of salamanders, frogs and toads, turtles, lizards, and snakes, as well as an impressive collection of black-and-white photographs. The addition of 1,000 new records since the first edition has enhanced the accuracy of the maps, which identify counties where each animal has been found. Also new in this edition is information on a snake recently discovered in Kansas,...

This is a fictionalized account of Kajsa Svensson Runeberg's first 20 years on her Kansas farm.--Pref.

This is a fictionalized account of Charlotta Johnson's journey from Sweden to Kansas in 1868.--Pref.

This is a fictionalized account of Charlotta Johnson's life as she and her husband build a farmstead on the Kansas prairie.