KANSAS SIGHTS: Historical Kansas

Kansas Books To Own

Kansas Books: On-Line

Books on Kansas:
* Kansas History, Amazon.com
* Kansas, Amazon.com

* Kansas On-Line Bookstore: free searches, plus Kansas, Santa Fe Trail books

* Book browsing and searching

* American West: Media

* Download Original Historical Documents, Footnote
* Find Your Ancestors in History, Footnote

* Kansas Collection and Book list
* Ford County Historical Society, Skyways
* Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas by James C. Malin. A classic on Kansas agriculture history.

University of PA:
* Border Ruffian Code in Kansas,
* Defense of Kansas, Beecher
* Liberty, the Fair Maid of Kansas, image
* Crime Against Kansas, Sumner
* Voice of Kansas, Let the South Respond, Law and Order Party of Kansas Territory

Yale:
* An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas

Geography

Kansas Sights

Located west of the Missouri River, Kansas is one of the Great Plains states.

Physiographic map of Kansas
On-Line Maps of Kansas
Kansas in 1895
Maps and Travel links & searches (MiniMeta)
Maps from the American West WWW-VL
Kansas: Prairie Dog Town from Roadside America
Old West Kansas
Travel Plan USA

People: As the population of the United States grew and moved westward, native Americans were relocated ahead. Other families left North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, and beyond to stake their claims to land out west. Some became Kansas pioneers.

The newer settlers' claims to land on the plains were based upon land grants determined not locally, and not traditionally, but by the government in Washington, D.C. Some homesteaded, like the Ingalls family who lived in the "LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE", including one near Independence, KS. Even before Kansas became a free state, African Americans crossed the Missouri River at Quindaro to escape slavery. Cattlemen and other businesmen staked their claims on the prairie, and gunfighters followed, especially after the American Civil War. Groups of people from other countries often immigrated into Kansas, so a wide variety of people have lived or passed through here. Do you have any Kansas ancestors?

Buffalo Soldiers
Buffalo Soldiers: 10th Cavalry served from Ft. Leavenworth.
International Museum of the Horse
Buffalo Soldier History Overview (Vision Quest)
Books about Buffalo Soldiers by Frank N. Schubert
United States Colored Troups in the Civil War
Black Military History (About.com)
Buffalo Soldiers from WWII
Rediscovering America: Buffalo Soldiers Q&As for school
Also see: Kansas people today: Kansas news, adoption,
government, newspapers, people, radio, TV, schools

Famous Kansans:
Maurice Greene, "World's Fastest Man", Kansas City, KS
Kansas History
Notable Persons of African Descent
Notable Kansan Women
More Notable Kansans
Eminent Kansans, famous elsewhere
Facts about Kansas
Prairie People
TrackStar's Civil War Quiz
Kansas and the Civil War
Also see: People of the American West.
Search for living people or ancestors.

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Kansas Trails

Exploring Kansas * Kansas Highways * Hwy 50/56 (Jensen)
Kansas Forts and Kansas Historic Trails
"Big Muddy" trip: Meander the Missouri on a River Barge
Oregon Trail: The Trail West (Philbrick) * Oregon Trail links (Larson) * Overland Trail History (Larson)
* Oregon Trail (Trinklein) * Pioneer Trails from US Land Surveys (Werner)
Pony Express Home Station (Crews)
Interactive Santa Fe Trail (Sween) * CyberTour- Santa Fe Trail (Sween)

Bloody Kansas

Sign Slideshow

What was "Bloody Kansas"?

Kansas Collection | KSHS bibliography | Hwy 69 Cybertour | Jayhawkers and women involved in the KS-MO border warfare |

Mine Creek Battlefield | History | Pictures: the area, today | School Project | Confederate soldiers, Mine Creek | Maps of the Mine Creek battle area
More on the Civil War The Civil War Comes to Indian Territory, with some activity in Kansas. This chapter is part of a dissertation on Cherokee and Black Freedmen.

Kansas Towns

Kansas City, KS

Some of the towns of Kansas established during the 1800s became well known "cow towns." Remember Abilene? Council Grove, in Morris County, was a rendezvous point on the commercial Santa Fe Trail. Ever hear how the law came to Dodge City? It's all right here, in Old West Kansas. Middle school students in Burdette, KS studied about the history of Ft. Larned. Speaking of school, can you pass a test 8th graders in Kansas took in 1918? Kansas had one room schools.

Kansas Museums

Ft. Scott KS

Kansas Museum list
Historical Markers

Search the Web for Kansas
* Google
* MSN Search
* Wikipedia
* Travel Searches

More Searches:

Living People Searches
Family Surname Searches
Current Travel & Historic Maps
Search Engine History

Kansas history
email lists:

Civil War West group, Yahoo
Civil War: Outlaws of Missouri group, Yahoo
Greater Kansas City area history & familes of area list
Kansas Genealogy Forum
kc.rail newsgroup (usenet)
Overland Trails - long distance trails impacting the settling of the US American West.
Santa-Fe-Trail history, travel, books, etc (once hosted by GardenCity.net; now at Yahoo

More Kansas History Links

Agricultural Hall of Fame
American West (WWW-Virtual Library)
The American West: Development and History
Bonner Springs - Library
Bonner Springs - History
Bonner Springs Pictures
Bonner Springs - Virtual
Books - Kansas (on-line)
Books - browse or search
Digital History: KC area schools
Doniphan County Plat Book, 1882
Edwardsville Pictures
Edwardsville - Virtual
Forts
Historical Directory of Kansas Towns
History Net
Interactive Genealogy
Johnson County
Kansas Collection
Kansas City
Kansas City Star
Kansas Community Networks
Kansas - Cool Things
Kansas Counties
Kansas County Cam
Kansas - Education
Kansas GenWeb
Kansas - Government
Kansas - Graphics
Kansas Heritage

Kansas History - Cutler

Kansas Interactive Genealogy

Kansas magazine: Voices

Kansas - News & Links

Kansas On the Net

Kansas 1 Room School House Project

Kansas - Prairie

Kansas - Radio & TV

Kansas Resource Sources

Kansas River - Fossils

Kansas River - Mouth to source

Kansas Sights

Kansas State Historical Society

Kansas Surnames

Law Library - Univ of KS

Leavenworth

New Perspectives on The West, PBS

Olathe

Old West, History of the

Old West Kansas

Oregon Trail

Photos: Kansas: and beyond

Photos: Kansas: Slideshows

Photos: Kansas: Things to do

Photos: Kansas: AmWest

Photos: Kansas (Kansas Collection)

Rep. Morrison - KS House

Santa Fe Trail

Scenes of Kansas: KanColl Graphics

Scenes of Kansas: some Kansas eCards

State of Kansas: Official Home Page

Santa Fe Trail

Timeline: Kansas

Trails

USA Today - Kansas news

WebRing: KS Sites

Wyandotte County

Wyandotte County Photos

Wyandotte County - Museum

Wyandotte County History - Cutler

Wyandotte County Official Site

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