Four Minute Stories from the Kansas Plains

A playwrite form Independance, Kansas!

A review of a book about writings from jail!

People had a whole lot of fan making insults back in the day!

How does a company in New England help Kansas?

What were patent newspapers in early Kansas days?

Kasas has a sad history.

What was Salina like before the Internet and TV?

A peek into what people used to debate about.

A little poem that captures the true spirit of Kansas!

No one is a stranger in Kansas!

Cattle drives were a real challenge.

Mayoral proclamations from a bygone era!

So many hot topics!

A charming story.

Except one farm boy.

Learn to be a stenographer!

A thirsty man or woman could always find a drink.

Finding water by walking around with a stick.

Early settlers were gullible and easily swindled.

Pigeons were the worst.

Between the 1860s and 1920s, Kansas published more newspapers than any state in the nation.

Western life in the old days was far from comfortable.

As tough as the men.

Shades of John Scopes!

This one is an award-winner!

Sophisticated conversations from the 1920s.

Kansas is a happening place!

A brief summary of the Grange movement,

In existence for 86 years.

Enlightenment for city slickers.

Francisco Coronado, in 1541, didn't find what he was looking for.

A really sweet story about public schools.

All kinds of critters made life miserable.

You can tell a lot about a woman by how she builds a fence.

Powerful words.

Hot topics!

He won an Academy Award and a Pulitzer Prize.

A bit of doggerel.

Kansas newspaper editors were not at a loss for words.

Trials of biblical proportion!.

A bumpy ride in Kansas!

For Better and for Worse

Not all settlers survived frontier life.

The Women's Christian Temperance Union,

Strict discipline!

Dangerous times at the card table.

The New England Emigrant Aid Society,

From the 1880s.

At one time, 100,000 Klan members in Kansas.

Literary clubs in Salina in the early 1900s.