Our Books collection is sorted by year, from oldest to most recently published.
Commerce of the Prairies - Gregg, Josiah (1844)
A Campaign in New Mexico With Col. Doniphan - Edwards, Frank S. (1847)
Report of the Committee of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society, with the Act of Incorporation (1854)
Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life - Robinson, Sara T. L. (1856)
Six Months in Kansas - Ropes, Hannah Anderson (1856)
Governor Geary's Administration in Kansas - Gihon, John H., M.D. (1857)
The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions - Marcy, Randoph Barnes, Captain, U. S. A. (1859)
Went to Kansas - Colt, Miriam D. (1862)
The Lawrence Massacre - Cordley, R. (1865)
Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest - McCoy, Joseph G. (1874)
My Life on the Plains - Custer, General George Armstrong (1874)
The Andreas History of the State of Nebraska - Cutler, Wm. G. (1882)
The Andreas History of the State of Kansas - Cutler, Wm. G. (1883)
Emigrant Life in Kansas - Ebbutt, Percy G. (1886)
Twin Hells - Reynolds, John N. (1890)
Extract from Marvels of the New West - Thayer, William M. (1890)
Kansas Exhibits of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition
A History of Lawrence, Kansas - Cordley, Richard (1895)
The Real Issue - White, William Allen (1896)
Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill (1896) [in progress]
In His Steps - Sheldon, Charles M. (1896, 1909)
Last of the Great Scouts - Wetmore, Helen Cody (1899, 1917)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Baum, Lyman Frank (1900)
Old Settlers' Tales - Crevecoeur, F. F. (1902)
Pioneer Days in Kansas - Cordley, R. (1903)
Legends of the Kaw - De Voe, Carrie (1904)
American Thumbprints - Stephens, Kate (1905)
The South Dakota National Guard Goes to Fort Riley, Souvenir Book (1906)
KANSAS: The Prelude to the War for the Union - Spring, Leverett Wilson (1906)
The People’s Reveille, Souvenir Book - Hill City, Graham Co., Kansas (1906)
The Lawrence Massacre - Cordley, R. (1865)
The Indian War of 1864 - Ware, Eugene F. (1911)
Report of the Committee of the Kansas State Historical Society on the Santa Fe Trail Through Kansas (1911-1912)
The History of Johnson County, Kansas - Blair, Ed (1915) [in progress]
Tales and Trails of Wakarusa - Harvey, A. M. (1917)
Howard Chase, Red Hill - Sheldon, Charles M. (1918)
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me - White, William Allen (1918)
The Perry Home Cook Book (1920)
Life at Laurel Town in Anglo-Saxon Kansas - Stephens, Kate (1920/1936)
History of The 353rd Infantry Regiment, 89th Division, National Army, September 1917-June 1919 - Dienst, Captain Charles F., et al. (1921)
The Story of a Kansas Pioneer - Anderson, Melissa Genett (1924)
The Last One - Maxton, Rosie Clem (1932)
The Pioneer History of Kansas - Roenigk, Adolph (1933)
The Grassland of North America - Malin, James C. (1946) (extract)
The Rath Trail - Rath, Ida Ellen (1961)
Wonderful Old Lawrence - Rowe, Elfriede Fischer (1971)
Autobiography of a Common Man - Beach, Milton
Sod Jerusalems: Jewish Agricultural Communities in Frontier Kansas - Harris, L. David (1984)
Do Tell: The Early Years - Dale, Don B. (1991)
Reflections from the Prairie - Schiller, George W. (1994)
The Cow from Grasshopper Falls - Brown, Mary Ann Sachse (illustrations by Roy Lee Brown) (1996)
A Prairie Wedding: Alonzo and Stella, October 21 1906 - Turner, Vern F. (1999)
The Abolitionist: A Saga of the Albert Gallatin Barrett family of early Kansas - Schiller, George W. (2002)
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.
