EPISODE · Nov 28, 2007 · 13 MIN

Immigrant Guides

from A Kansas Memory: The Kansas Historical Society Library and Archives Podcast · host Lin Frederickson

Immigrants flocked to Kansas in the 1870s in response to the opening of vast tracts of land for white settlement. Their excitement was fueled in no small part by brochures the railroads were distributing, claiming the state had the "best and cheapest farming and grazing lands in America"; and touting Kansas as "the garden of the West."; Listen and marvel at the words these promoters used to lure settlers to the midwest!

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