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
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
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
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
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
"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
Milton Beach's Ice House Memories
"Bootleggers in Jewell County" by Mike Jacobs
"Elizabeth Garen's Scrap Book" by Jim Bullock
"The Old Windmill" by C.L. Edson
"The Pet Snake Saga" by Faith James
"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
Oldtime Hardball -- We're talkin' BASEBALL by Dick Taylor
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
Margaret Young Stafford: A Life of Strength by James E. Stafford
Gordon McLin: Kansan. - adapted from Rev. Paul B. Mitchell's remarks
The Remarkable Young Woman from Turkey Creek by Gail Martin
Who was the Wheat Dreamer? by Michelle Stafford
Cora Pickering Cordell by Julie Schossow
John Brown of Osawatomie
The Browns, kinfolk of Marilyn Getty and Barbara Rentenbach
Tom Smith of Abilene
Abraham Rothrock by Barbara Hill
The Kansas Collection website is managed by Susan Stafford and Dick Taylor and was created by Lynn H. Nelson, retired Professor of History at the University of Kansas.