Add to ORKGConquistadors and cowboys, Indians and Exodusters - to say nothing of such luminaries in the pantheon of popular culture as Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, and Buffalo Bill Cody - join the intricate weave of the historical tapestry of Kansas. Frequently glanced at as a passing through place, Kansas is more accurately perceived as a locale where regions and peoples meet, mingle, and merge. It is, after all, in Kansas that watered prairies taper off into vast Plains where Dust Bowl nightmares linger. This complex place and its complex history receive the attention of the twenty authors whose nineteen essays are brought together in Kansas and the West: New Perspectives
How does one describe the nature of this place that is the Great Plains? Diane Quantic and P. Jane H...
Review of: Peopling the Plains: Who Settled Where in Frontier Kansas. Shortridge, James R
With his latest book Meadows has made a significant contribution to our understanding of Native Amer...
Writing a one-volume state history is a formidable task. Deciding what political, economic, and soci...
Powerful mythologies have always blocked people\u27s understanding of the American West. This book p...
Kansas was born in the bloody prelude to the Civil War, a contested territory between North and Sout...
Novels and histories of the American West have always attracted a large, varied audience. Some reade...
In this delightful book, historian Craig Miner of Wichita State University narrates the history of w...
This is an eclectic collection of short biographical essays from the American West grouped from cont...
Review of: Hayseeds, Moralizers, and Methodists: The Twentieth-Century Image of Kansas. Bader, Rober...
The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains is a terrific soapbox for Plains historians, teachers, writers,...
The upper West Texas area is a huge region of the southern Great Plains. Including the Rolling Plain...
Robert W. Richmond has orchestrated a filiopietistic paean to the citizens of Kansas the hardy souls...
After the West Was Won is about pioneering in western South Dakota on land unsettled by agricultural...
Review of: Ghost Settlement on the Prairie: A Biography of Thurman, Kansas. Hickey, Joseph V
How does one describe the nature of this place that is the Great Plains? Diane Quantic and P. Jane H...
Review of: Peopling the Plains: Who Settled Where in Frontier Kansas. Shortridge, James R
With his latest book Meadows has made a significant contribution to our understanding of Native Amer...
Writing a one-volume state history is a formidable task. Deciding what political, economic, and soci...
Powerful mythologies have always blocked people\u27s understanding of the American West. This book p...
Kansas was born in the bloody prelude to the Civil War, a contested territory between North and Sout...
Novels and histories of the American West have always attracted a large, varied audience. Some reade...
In this delightful book, historian Craig Miner of Wichita State University narrates the history of w...
This is an eclectic collection of short biographical essays from the American West grouped from cont...
Review of: Hayseeds, Moralizers, and Methodists: The Twentieth-Century Image of Kansas. Bader, Rober...
The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains is a terrific soapbox for Plains historians, teachers, writers,...
The upper West Texas area is a huge region of the southern Great Plains. Including the Rolling Plain...
Robert W. Richmond has orchestrated a filiopietistic paean to the citizens of Kansas the hardy souls...
After the West Was Won is about pioneering in western South Dakota on land unsettled by agricultural...
Review of: Ghost Settlement on the Prairie: A Biography of Thurman, Kansas. Hickey, Joseph V
How does one describe the nature of this place that is the Great Plains? Diane Quantic and P. Jane H...
Review of: Peopling the Plains: Who Settled Where in Frontier Kansas. Shortridge, James R
With his latest book Meadows has made a significant contribution to our understanding of Native Amer...