KanColl Articles

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special selections | letters and diaries | reminiscences | reference shelf | biographies | Special Selections   return to menu Connie Dipasquale's "Orphan Trains of Kansas" "Kansas, 'Ad Astra Per Aspera'" by Roscoe Fleming "A Tale of the Airly Days", by James Whitcomb Riley Preface to The Way It Was, by Tom Carney "Progress in Kansas", the 1930s Kansas State Chamber of Commerce magazine A Tribute to Homer White Paul Turner's "The Death of Jesse Turner" "Only Yesterday" - Stories by Lynn H. Nelson Bus Cornelius: Lane, Kansas History "A True Kansas Sunflower Story" by Lynn Nelson "Gone to the Dogs" by Dick Taylor "A Kansan in South Chicago" - More Stories by Lynn Nelson "The Small Pleasures of Autumn" by Lynn Nelson Centennial Anniversary (first published on August 15, 1896)     of What's the Matter with Kansas? by William Allen White Kansas Fact and Fancy: Trivia questions about Kansas history "Buffalo Bill, Won't You Come Out and Fight?" by Dick Taylor Letters and Diaries   return to menu A Soldier's Diary: The World War I Diary of Benjamin Edgar Cruzan Elijah Nelson Doughty's Civil War Diary of Travels Diary of William Anderson Thornton: Military Expedition to New Mexico The Ragle Letters Wells: Letters of a Kansas Pioneer, 1855-1860 Edwin Tucker's Diary Letter of Mary Jones Letter from William Smith (1859) Prairie Homestead: Letters of Clay and Kate Bowen (1886-1887/1925) Letter to Edward Beedles from Richard Smith (1870) At the Other End of the Bridge     Letter to Editor of the Dodge City Times (1886) Kansas Penitentiary, 1913 Life on the Plains: Elizabeth (Totten) Thorne's 1917 letter to Emma Forter Reminiscences   return to menu The Old Wooden Trunk by Debbie Berges The Swing and keepsake memories by Debbie Berges A Henneberg Heritage by Debbie Berges The Spring Over On The Bluff by Debbie Berges Henneberg Family Notes by Debbie Berges Memories of a Kansas Farm Boy, by Winton Slagle Sipe Personal Memoirs of Watson Stewart The Buffalow Hunt, by R. O. Blain Nancy Wisner's Recollections of Pioneer Life E. T. McFarland's Memories of Kansas Settlement Robert Condon Stone's Reminiscences Autobiography of Mary Beeson How WILLIAM met MILLIE by Tommy Graham "Nick Names of Lane, Kansas" by Dolly Belt George A. Root's Reminiscences of William Darnell Benjamin Franklin Smith and his memories of Lincoln and Douglas U. S. Grant Sanders' account of Frank Bursinger Fred Wishart's 1898 ride on The Zulu hello Milton Beach's Ice House Memories "Bootleggers in Jewell County" by Mike Jacobs "Autobiography of Sarah Edna Eutsler Kennedy" "Elizabeth Garen's Scrap Book" by Jim Bullock "The Old Windmill" by C.L. Edson "The Pet Snake Saga" by Faith James "Dr. McEwen Treats Emmett Dalton!" "The Factual History of Kansas" by Sherman Peter Young "Living with Dust" by Lynn Nelson "Tales of the Smokey Hills: Brownie, a Hobo" by Jim Sumner "The Sirens Began Wailing . . . " by Jim Banister "J. C. Returns Home" by Ray Downing "J. C. Redfield: Sheriff" by Ray Downing A Pretty Church Wedding contributed by John Maier Josie's Ledger by Josephine Winifred Hammond Crawford "Concerts in the Park" by Lynn Nelson "Kansas Skies" by Mike Hayes Reference Shelf   return to menu Oldtime Hardball -- We're talkin' BASEBALL by Dick Taylor The Surveyor's Trade -- by Lynn Nelson Excerpt from Dr. R. C. McClymonds' Physician's Pocket Account Book Amazing Grace by John Newton The Cross of Gold Speech by Willliam Jennings Bryan The Kansas Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier Aunt Ruth's Pioneer Woman by Mary Ann Sachse Brown The Raynesford Papers -- Notes on Kansas Trails and the Butterfield Overland Despatch James C. Malin: A Sampler The Life of the Dragoon Enlisted Men by J. Patrick Hughes, Ph.D. A History of Lawrence in Rhyme - Phillips Betts Civil War list of Kansas POWs at Camp Ford Eberly List of 1877 Unit Measures William E. Smith's The Oregon Trail through Pottawatomie County SUMMERFIELD on the KC, Wyandotte, & NW RR Camp Funston, 1918 Biographies   return to menu Margaret Young Stafford: A Life of Strength by James E. Stafford Gordon McLin: Kansan. - adapted from Rev. Paul B. Mitchell's remarks McKinley Burnett: Fired by a Dream The Remarkable Young Woman from Turkey Creek, by Gail Martin Who was the Wheat Dreamer? by Michelle Stafford Cora Pickering Cordell Dr. Ellis Hobson Obituaries John Brown of Osawatomie The Browns, kinfolk of Marilyn Getty and Barbara Rentenbach Dingus' Last Ride Tom Smith of Abilene The Life Altering Decisions of Joseph Dvorak and Francis Zvolanek Abraham Rothrock by Barbara Hill

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