KANSAS COLLECTION


The Way It Was



Summerfield on the KC, Wyandotte & NW RR
    Relating how the little town of Summerfield began in 1888.

Oldtime Hardball -- We're talkin' BASEBALL
    An organized baseball club was established in Kansas by 1867. "Oldtime Hardball" explains what the game was like.

Tom Smith of Abilene
    The story of that legendary lawman.

Dingus's Last Ride
    A bearded horseman brought his younger associate to the rejuvenated Pawnee City.

Commerce of the Prairies (in progress)
    Josiah Gregg's 1844 book tells of dangerous adventures on the overland trade route from Kansas to New Mexico.



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