Four Minute Stories from the Kansas Plains
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William Inge
A playwrite form Independance, Kansas!
Prison Writing
A review of a book about writings from jail!
Exceedingly Eloquant Insults
People had a whole lot of fan making insults back in the day!
What Does A New England Aid Company Have to do With Kansas?
How does a company in New England help Kansas?
What Were Patent Newspapers?
What were patent newspapers in early Kansas days?
A Sad Chapter in Kansas History
Kasas has a sad history.
Salina Before the Internet!
What was Salina like before the Internet and TV?
Debatable Issues in Earlier Times
A peek into what people used to debate about.
A True Kansas Welcome
A little poem that captures the true spirit of Kansas!
A Kansan's Welcome
No one is a stranger in Kansas!
John Wayne's Wild West
Cattle drives were a real challenge.
Mayoral Proclamations From Long Ago!
Mayoral proclamations from a bygone era!
Debatable Issues From the 1800's
So many hot topics!
The Hope Study Club
A charming story.
Everyone loved Lawrence Welk
Except one farm boy.
Being successful in business in 1905
Learn to be a stenographer!
Circumventing Prohibition...
A thirsty man or woman could always find a drink.
The Art and Science of Water Witching
Finding water by walking around with a stick.
Hoodwinked!
Early settlers were gullible and easily swindled.
Wild animals downtown!
Pigeons were the worst.
Wonderful newspaper names..
Between the 1860s and 1920s, Kansas published more newspapers than any state in the nation.
Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite.
Western life in the old days was far from comfortable.
Western Women
As tough as the men.
Kansas had its own monkey trial.
Shades of John Scopes!
Yet More Cowboy Poems.
This one is an award-winner!
The Rinehart Book and Study Club.
Sophisticated conversations from the 1920s.
Never A Dull Moment
Kansas is a happening place!
Animal Husbandry.
A brief summary of the Grange movement,
The Manhattan Kansas Book Club
In existence for 86 years.
More Cowboy Poems.
Enlightenment for city slickers.
A Futile Search for the City of Gold
Francisco Coronado, in 1541, didn't find what he was looking for.
A True Kansas Welcome
No one is a stranger in Kansas.
The Abilene PTA
A really sweet story about public schools.
Even More Discomforts in the Old West!
All kinds of critters made life miserable.
Cowboy poet
You can tell a lot about a woman by how she builds a fence.
Writing From Prison.
Powerful words.
Debatable Issues in the 1870s.
Hot topics!
A Kansas Playwright.
He won an Academy Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
Two Amusing Poems.
A bit of doggerel.
Exceedingly Eloquent Insults!
Kansas newspaper editors were not at a loss for words.
Never a Dull Moment in Kansas
Trials of biblical proportion!.
An Uplifting Story
A bumpy ride in Kansas!
What People Have Said About Kansas Over Time
For Better and for Worse
Prairie Madness
Not all settlers survived frontier life.
Smashing Saloons!
The Women's Christian Temperance Union,
Life at St. John's Military Academy
Strict discipline!
What were Patent Newspapers?
Pre-printed news in frontier days.
Frontier Gambling Was Not for the Faint of Heart
Dangerous times at the card table.
Paying people to move to Kansas.
The New England Emigrant Aid Society,
High Times in McPherson!
From the 1880s.