KANSAS COLLECTION RESEARCH
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THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

RELATING TO

THE HISTORY OF
KANSAS AND ITS REGION


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Fletcher, Liona Blanche, M.A.
1920, University of Kansas.
Thomas H. Benton and the Pacific Railroad

Ream, Virginia Brandt, M.A.
1920, University of Kansas.
The Kansas Pacific

Malin, James Claude, Ph.D.
1920, University of Kansas.
The Relation of Indian Policy to Western Expansion

Craik, Elmer LeRoy, Ph.D.
1922, University of Kansas.
Southern Interest in Territorial Kansas

Taylor, Lora, M.A.
1922, University of Kansas.
History Curricula Development. The Kansas Situation

Dickerman, R. Anna, M.A.
1923, University of Kansas.
Grand Island, Nebraska, Settlement and Growth

Tracey, Jay W., M.A.
1923, University of Kansas.
The Genesis of the Missouri Pacific Railroad

Harrington, Wynne Powers, M.A.
1924, University of Kansas.
The Populist Party in Kansas

Albrecht, Abraham, M.A.
1925, University of Kansas.
Mennonite Settlements in Kansas

Ebel, August Richard, M.A.
1926, University of Kansas.
The Platt Amendment

Gaeddert, Gustave R., M.A.
1926, University of Kansas.
The Douglas Compromise of 1850

O'Meara, Edith Florence, M.A.
1928, University of Kansas.
Relief Work in Kansas 1856-57

Denton, Doris, M.A.
1929, University of Kansas.
Harmony Mission - 1821-1837

O'Meara, Mildred Elizabeth, M.A.
1929, University of Kansas.
The History of Onaga, Kansas

Howell, Frederick Noble, M.A.
1930, University of Kansas.
Pittsburg, Kansas, and its Industries

McIlvain, Zelma Edna, M.A.
1931, University of Kansas.
Governor Glick (Kansas) and Prohibition, 1883-1884

Frederikson, Otto Frovin, Ph.D.
1931, University of Kansas.
The Liquor Question in Kansas Before Constitutional Prohibition

Bohannon, Idita Eunice, M.A.
1932, University of Kansas.
The American Country Life Association

Donohue, Arthur Thomas, Ph.D.
1932, University of Kansas.
A History of the Early Jesuit Missions in Kansas

Garfield, Marvin H., M.A.
1932, University of Kansas.
Defense of the Kansas Frontier Against Indians and Outlaws 1864-1869

Tillmon, William Richard, M.A.
1932, University of Kansas.
The Legislative History of the Capper-Volstead Act

Caldwell, Martha Belle, Ph.D.
1933, University of Kansas.
The Attitude of Kansas Toward Reconstruction Before 1875

Harrison, Hortense Marie, M.A.
1933, University of Kansas.
The Populist Delegation in the Fifty-second Congress, 1891-1893

Leibengood, Dorothy, M.A.
1933, University of Kansas.
Governor Martin and the Labor Problem, 1886

George, Alva Allan, M.A.
1934, University of Kansas.
Dudley C. Haskell and His Times

Arnott, S. E. Lucile, M.A.
1936, University of Kansas.
Irrigation Legislation: 1877-1894

Feess, Marion Maude, M.A.
1936, University of Kansas.
Irrigation Under Federal Reclamation: 1902-1909

Kenney, Ruth, M.A.
1936, University of Kansas.
World History for High Schools -- a Problem and a Projected Course

Moyer, John L., M.A.
1936, University of Kansas.
Desert Reclamation -- Some Phases

Reese, Vincent Iden, M.A.
1936, University of Kansas.
Irrigation Legislation, 1894-1902

Gaeddert, Gustave Raymond, Ph.D.
1937, University of Kansas.
A History of the Establishment of the Kansas State Government

Bryant, Girard T., M.A.
1938, University of Kansas.
The Populist Movement and the Negro

Doyle, Alberta, M.A.
1939, University of Kansas.
The Progressive Movement in the Republican Party in Kansas, 1902- 1917

Moore, Bessie Ellen, M.A.
1939, University of Kansas.
Life and Work of Robert Simerwell

Opperman, Kermit Edward, M.A.
1939, University of Kansas.
The Political Career of Senator William Alexander Harris

Welch, George Murlin, M.A.
1939, University of Kansas.
Border Warfare in Southeastern Kansas, 1856-1859

Nelson, Harvey F., M.A.
1940, University of Kansas.
An Economic History of Chanute, Kansas

Tolin, Corabelle, M.A.
1940, University of Kansas.
The Political Career of J. R. Burton

Aldous, Lois Geraldine, M.A.
1941, University of Kansas.
The Grange in Kansas Since 1895

Smith, J. Harold, M.A.
1941, University of Kansas.
History of the Grange in Kansas, 1883-1897

Christner, Margaret Louise, M.A.
1942, University of Kansas.
The Ballinger Controversy, an Analysis of Political Intrigue

Klema, Marion Coral, M.A.
1942, University of Kansas.
The Later Career of William A. Phillips

Ewert, Henry, M.A.
1943, University of Kansas.
An Early History of Jackson County 1855-1880

Jackson, Sheldon Glenn, M.A.
1944, University of Kansas.
Quakers in Kansas: 1833-1900

Lindsay, Kathleen Roy, M.A.
1946, University of Kansas.
Early St. Joseph, Missouri

Zerger, Carl Ray, M.A.
1946, University of Kansas.
Historical Notes on Kansas Salt

Howard, Dwight, M.A.
1946, University of Kansas.
Southeastern Kansas Cow Towns

Tripp, Murray P., M.A.
1947, University of Kansas.
The Early Career of William A. Philips

Tuttle, Lillian Margaret, M.A.
1948, University of Kansas.
The Congressional Career of Victor Murdock, 1909-1911

Edwards, Anna Marie, M.A.
1948, University of Kansas.
The Congressional Career of Victor Murdock, 1903-1909

Linn, Vera Maxine, M.A.
1948, University of Kansas.
History of Harper County, Kansas, 1877-1890

McBurney, Charles Reed, M.A.
1948, University of Kansas.
Cache Creek Indian Mission: A Study in Religious Education Among the Comanche, Apache, and Kiowa Indians of Southwestern Oklahoma

Boswell, Lenis, M.A.
1949, University of Kansas.
The Political Career of Victor Murdock (1911-1917)

Corey, Leland Aubrey, M.A.
1951, University of Kansas.
Funston in Congress, 1884-1888

Ewing, Morgan R., M.A.
1951, University of Kansas. Charles F.
Scott: His Decade in Congress

Wells, Eugene Tate, Ph.D.
1951, University of Kansas. St.
Louis and Cities West, 1820-1880: A Study in History and Geography

Mitchell, William Henry, M.A.
1952, University of Kansas. Joseph L.
Bristow: Kansas Insurgent in the U.S. Senate, 1909-1915

Whitham, Rishel L., M.A.
1953, University of Kansas. Sooners in the Nebraska Territory

Knauer, Delbert Deane, M.
A.
1953, University of Kansas. The Senatorial Career of James Madison Harvey

Flory, Raymond LeRoy, Ph.
D.
1955, University of Kansas. The Political Career of Chester I.
Long

Pringle, Jack Bromwell, M.A.
1955, University of Kansas. The Congressional Career of Edmond H.
Madison (1907-1911)

Spillman, Patricia Rose, M.A.
1956, University of Kansas. The "Social Philosophy" of William A.
Phillips as Found in His Book, Labor, Land and Law: A Search for the Missing Wealth of the Working Poor

Dimmitt, Marius Albert, M.A.
1958, University of Kansas.
The Progressive Party in Kansas, 1911-1917

Davis, Rodney O., M.A.
1960, University of Kansas
The Fencing Problem and the Herd Law in Kansas, 1855-1883

Gower, Calvin W., Ph.D.
1960, University of Kansas
Kansas Territory and the Pike's Peak Gold Rush

Westerhaus, Harry E., Jr., M.A.
1960, University of Kansas
The Administration of James W. Denver, Kansas Territorial Executive December 21, 1857 to October 10, 1858

McGuire, Lloyd Horace, Jr., M.A.
1960, University of Kansas
The Settling of Guthrie, Oklahoma

Plummer, Mark Allen, Ph.D.
1960, University of Kansas
Governor Crawford: The Political Career of Samuel J. Crawford of Kansas

Skaggs, David Curtis, Jr., M.A.
1960, University of Kansas
Military Contributions to the Development of Territorial Kansas

Bittinger, Richard Desmond, M.A.
1961, University of Kansas
History of the Patrons of Husbandry in Kansas, 1872-1882

Curl, Thelma Jean, M.A.
1961, University of Kansas
Promotional Efforts of the Kansas Pacific and Santa Fe to Settle Kansas

Keuchel, Edward Frederick, Jr., M.A.
1961, University of Kansas
The Railway System of Fort Scott: A Study of the Impact of Railroad Development upon a Southeastern Kansas Community, 1867-1883

Brodhead, Michael John, M.A.
1961, University of Kansas
The Early Career of E. W. Hock 1870-1904

Snell, Joseph Warren, M.A.
1961, University of Kansas
The Stevens County Seat Controversy

Unruh, John David, Jr., M.A.
1962, University of Kansas
The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Brings the Mennonites to Nebraska, 1873-1878

Finger, John Robert, M.A.
1964, University of Kansas
Jonathan M. Davis, 1925-1942: A Kansas Democrat's Political Demise

Purcell, Edward A., Jr., M.A.
1964, University of Kansas
The Concept of Natural Rights in the Thought of Progressive Reformers, 1900-1916

Williams, Burton John, Ph.D.
1965, University of Kansas
John James Ingalls: A Personal Portrait of a Public Figure

Youngkamp, Joseph Edward, M.A.
1965, University of Kansas
Politics of the Second Congressional District of Kansas: the Political and Congressional Career of Justin DeWitt Bowersock, 1898-1907

Johnson, David G., M.A.
1965, University of Kansas
A Study of the Ideas of Charles M. Sheldon

Schuyler, Michael W., M.A.
1965, University of Kansas
Emergency Drought Relief Activities of the Federal Government in Kansas 1933-1936

Boyett, Gene W., M.A.
1966, University of Kansas
Aspects of the Thought of Albert Jay Nock

Johnson, David G., M.A.
1965, University of Kansas
A Study of the Ideas of Charles M. Sheldon

Schuyler, Michael W., M.A.
1965, University of Kansas
Emergency Drought Relief Activities of the Federal Government in Kansas 1933-1936

Nieder, Paul H., M.A.
1966, University of Kansas
The Timber Culture Laws in Western Kansas, 1873-1891

LaForte, Robert S., Ph.D.
1966, University of Kansas
The Republican Party of Kansas During the Progressive Era, 1900-1916

Taylor, David G., M.A.
1966, University of Kansas
The Economic Development of Leavenworth, Kansas 1854-1870

Clanton, Orval G., Ph.D.
1967, University of Kansas
The Kansas Populists: A Study of the Leadership and Ideology of the Kansas People's Party

Heitzman, Paul R., M.A.
1967, University of Kansas
The Reaction of the Kansas Press to the Career of Edmund G. Ross, 1856-1907

Murray, Bruce K., Ph.D.
1967, University of Kansas
The People's Budget

Neufeld, Victor H., M.A.
1967, University of Kansas
The Mennonite Flour Milling Industry of Harvey, Marion, and McPherson Counties, Kansas: 1873-1900

Tripp, Joseph Frederick, M.A.
1967, University of Kansas
Reactions to the Birth of the Labor Problem in Kansas: 1877-1883

Harmon, Terry H., M.A.
1968, University of Kansas
Charles Sumner Gleed: Spokesman for Business Interests and the Republican Party

Holmes, James A., M.A.
1968, University of Kansas
History of Ozark County, Missouri, to 1865

Sorensen, Willis Conner, M.A.
1968, University of Kansas
A History of Irrigation in the Arkansas River Valley in Western Kansas, 1880-1910

Youngmann, Carl Ernst, M.A.
1968, University of Kansas
The Quantitative Study of Land Disposal History -- The Settlement of Platte County, Missouri, 1837-1850

Brox, Albert J., M.A.
1968, University of Kansas
P.P. Elder of Franklin County-A Kansas Pioneer

Christianson, James R., Ph.D.
1968, University of Kansas
A Study of Osage History Prior to 1876

Lewis, Jimmie L., M.A.
1968, University of Kansas
Bismarck Grove, Lawrence, Kansas, 1878-1900

Loosbrock, Richard J., Ph.D.
1968, University of Kansas
The History of the Kansas Department of the American Legion: 1919-1968

Oltman, Marlo Dean, M.A.
1968, University of Kansas
The Smoky Hill Route: From the Missouri River to Ellsworth

Wood, Charles L., M.A.
1968, University of Kansas
Fencing in Five Kansas Counties Between 1875 and 1895

Craft, David Walter, M.A.
1969, University of Kansas
A History of the Garden City, Kansas, Land Office, 1883-1894

Godwin, Larry E., M.A.
1969, University of Kansas
The Exploration, Discovery, and Production of Oil in Richardson County, Nebraska, 1906-1967

Howard, Lee, M.A.
1969, University of Kansas
Household Furnishings on the Great Plains, 1880-1890 (A Guide to Location and Identification)

Sargent, Richard W., M.A.
1969, University of Kansas
History of Stanking Rock Indian Agency, 1868-1876

Shepard, John C., M.A.
1969, University of Kansas
The State Senatorial and Guvernatorial Career of John W. Leedy, Kansas Populist, 1892-1899

Blackledge, Leroy A., M.A.
1969, University of Kansas
A Study of Editorial Opinion in Selected Northeast Kansas Newspapers Relative to Negro Suffrage in Kansas, 1860-1870

Schuyler, Michael W., Ph.D.
1969, University of Kansas
Agricultural Relief Activities of the Federal Government in the Middle West, 1933-1936

Janzen, David Herman, M.A.
1970, University of Kansas
August Bebel: Creed or Ballot Box

Olson, Audrey L., C.S.J., Ph.D.
1970, University of Kansas
St. Louis Germans, 1850-1920: The Nature of an Immigrant Community and Its Relation to the Assimilation Process

Pankratz, Herbert Lee, M.A.
1970, University of Kansas
Loyalty-Disloyalty in Kansas During World War I

Taylor, David Gene, Ph.D.
1970, University of Kansas
The Business and Political Career of Thomas Ewing, Jr.: A Study of Frustrated Ambition

Caley, Timothy J., M.A.
1971, University of Kansas
Arkansas: Border State in Secession, Civil War, and Presidential Reconstruction

Waltner, John David, M.A.
1971, University of Kansas
The Process of Civilization on the Kansas Frontier, Newton, Kansas, 1871-1873

Bruce, Chester Charles, M.A.
1971, University of Kansas
Birger Sandzen, Distinguished Kansas Artist and Swedish-American

Habegger, Arman J., M.A.
1971, University of Kansas
Out of the Mud: The Good Roads Movement in Kansas, 1900-1917

Vandever, Elizabeth Jane, Ph.D.
1971, University of Kansas
Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka: Anatomy of a Decision

Steeves, Paul David, M.A.
1972, University of Kansas
The Experience of the Russian Baptists

LaRue, Lowell G., M.A.
1972, University of Kansas
Harry Hines Woodring: A Kansas Democrat Goes to Washington

Partin, John William, M.A.
1973, University of Kansas
Senator Arthur Capper, 1936-1941

Wiegand, Marguerite C., M.A.
1973, University of Kansas
Booming Western Cheyenne County, Kansas 1885-1900

Williams, Earl Martin, M.A.
1973, University of Kansas
White Cloud: The Development of a Frontier River Village, 1857-1872

Harmon, Terry H., Ph.D.
1973, University of Kansas
Charles Sumner Gleed: A Western Business Leader, 1856-1920

Wood, Charles L., Ph.D.
1974, University of Kansas
Cattlemen, Big Business, and Government: The Kansas Beef Industry, 1890-1940

Rickard, Louise Elaine, Ph.D.
1974, University of Kansas
The Impact of Populism on Electoral Patterns in Kansas, 1880-1900: A Quantitative Analysis

Laird, Judith Fincher, Ph.D.
1975, University of Kansas
Argentine, Kansas: The Evolution of a Mexican-American Community, 1905-1940

Unruh, John David, Jr., Ph.D.
1975, University of Kansas
The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1860

Morrison, Glenda E., Ph.D.
1977, University of Kansas
Women's Participation in the 1928 Presidential Campaign

Mueller, Roland Martin, Ph.D.
1977, University of Kansas
Tents and Tabernacles: The Chautauqua Movement in Kansas

Holtz, Milton Earnest, Ph.D.
1980, University of Kansas
Peculiar and Special Features of Public Land Disposal and Early Settlement of the Eastern Nebraska Frontier, 1825-1870

Rowland, Mary Scott, Ph.D.
1980, University of Kansas
Managerial Progressivism in Kansas, 1916-1930

DeWitt, Florence Carre, M.A.
1983, University of Kansas
Guild-town Influences in Kansas City's German Evangelical Community, 1860-1882

Fiorentino, Daniele, M.A.
1983, University of Kansas
A Household Divided: The Dawes Act and the Transformation of the Oglala Sioux Family

Fitzgerald, Daniel Clinton, M.A.
1984, University of Kansas
Town Booming: An Economic History of the Steamboat Towns Along the Kansas-Missouri Border 1840-1860

Worley, William Smith, Ph.D.
1986, University of Kansas
J. C. Nichols and the Origins of the Planned Residential Community in the United States, 1903-1930

Galentine, Shane Nelson, M.A.
1987, University of Kansas
The Kansas Elections of 1936

McWilliams, Robert Clovis, M.A.
1987, University of Kansas
Billard's Battle Over the Bible: Religion and the Public Schools in Turn-of-the-Century Topeka, Kansas

Hults, Jan E., Ph.D.
1987, University of Kansas
The Senatorial Career of James Alexander Reed

Eakin, William Linwood, M.A.
1988, University of Kansas
The Bidai Indians of Southeast Texas: An Ethnohistory

King, Charles R., M.A.
1989, University of Kansas
The Woman and Her Physician: Women's Medical Care on the Western Frontier, 1850-1900

Grant, Michael Johnston, M.A.
1993, University of Kansas
The City Comes to the Country -- the Kansas Farmer and the Urban Standard Of Living, 1910-1930

McCusker, Kristine Marie, M.A.
1994, University of Kansas
"The Forgotten Years" of America's Civil Rights Movement: the University Of Kansas, 1939-1961

Garner, Nancy g., PHD.
1994, University of Kansas
For God and Home and Native Land: the Kansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Graves, Donna Cooper, PHD.
1994, University of Kansas
Gender and the Geography of Crime: Criminal Activity in Kansas City, Kansas, 1890-1920

Logan, Matthew Bret, M.A.
1994, University of Kansas
Solid Waste Disposal and the Public Interest: Lawrence, Kansas 1947-1981

Monhollon, Rusty l., M.A.
1994, University of Kansas
"Away from the Dream": the Roots of Black Power in Lawrence, Kansas, 1960-1970

Schirmer, Sherry Lamb, PHD.
1995, University of Kansas
Landscape of Denial: Space, Status, and Gender in the Construction of Racial Perceptions among White Kansas Citizens

Erickson, Sonja Lucille, M.A.
1996, University of Kansas
In defense of the family: The fight to rescind the ERA in Kansas, 1974-1979

Robinson, Martha Kathleen, M.A.
1996, University of Kansas
Assimilation, ambivalence, and resistance: Students at Haskell Institute, 1920-1930

Bennett, Lyn Ellen, Ph.D.
1996, University of Kansas
Living on the edge: Families in crisis in nineteenth-century Kansas

Rome, Adam Ward, PhD
1996, University of Kansas
Prairie Creek Hills Estate: An Environmental History of American Homebuilding, 1945-1970

Anderson, Joseph L., M.A.
1997, University of Kansas
Farm Families and Technologial Change in Rural Iowa, 1930-1955

Connolly, Mark James, PhD
1997, University of Kansas
Public Health in 1920s Colorado: Health to Match its Valleys

Eakin, William Linwood, PhD
1997, University of Kansas
The Kingdom of the Tejas: The Hasinai Indians at the Crossroads of Change



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