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3) Wagon wheels
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English
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Shortly after the Civil War, a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
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University Press of Kansas
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English
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"Regional history at its best ... Many of the traditional tales of early hardships- grasshopper plagues, Indian attacks, the stress of loneliness and isolation, drought, blizzards, prairie fires, and the unaccostomed hazards of nature- are retold with vigor and a sense of immediacy. These gritty tales of pioneer persistence and stubbornness are used to illustrate the region's cyclical history of hope and despair ... Not the least is Miner's talents...
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Butter in the well volume 1
Pub. Date
c1992
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English
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This is a fictionalized account of Kajsa Svensson Runeberg's first 20 years on her Kansas farm.--Pref.
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English
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Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City's streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent...
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University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c1996
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English
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An account of the raid on the small Kansas town of Coffeyville in October 1892 by the outlaw Dalton gang, whose members were stopped by the courageous actions of the town's citizens who refused to stand idly by while the criminals looted and pushed people around.
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Butterfield Books
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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This is a mixture of fact and fiction of Charlotta Johnson's life of events that shaped this Swedish immigrant's family, join Charlotta as she reminisces about the important places and events in her past as she bids farewell to her mortal life on the Kansas prairie.
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Kansas State Historical Society
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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Fort Wallace (ca. 1865?1882) was a US Cavalry fort built in Wallace County, Kansas to help defend settlers against Cheyenne and Sioux raids. All that remains today is the cemetery, but for a period of over a decade Fort Wallace was one of the most important military outposts on the frontier.