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Special Selections
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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