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Author : William C. Sharp
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Dashing Kansan written by William C. Sharp and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig Miner
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700614249
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Kansas written by Craig Miner and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2002-10-21 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kansas is not only the Sunflower State, it's the very heart of America's heartland. It is a place of extremes in politics as well as climate, where ambitious and energetic people have attempted to put ideals into practice-a state that has come a long way since being identified primarily with John Brown and his exploits. Craig Miner has written a complete and balanced history of Kansas, capturing the state's colorful past and dynamic present as he depicts the persistence of contrasting images of and attitudes toward the state throughout its 150 years. A work combining serious scholarship with great readability, it encompasses everything from the Kansas-Nebraska Act to the evolution-creationism controversy, emphasizing the historical moments that were pivotal in forming the culture of the state and the diverse group of people who have contributed to its history. Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State is the first new state history to appear in over twenty-five years and the most thoroughly researched ever published. Written to enlighten general readers within and well beyond the state's borders, it offers coverage not found in previous histories: greater attention to its cities-notably Wichita-and to its south central and western regions, accounts of business history, contributions of women and minorities, and environmental concerns. It presents the dark as well as the bright side of Kansas progressivism and is the first Kansas history to deal with the post-World War II era in any significant detail. Craig Miner has spent almost forty years researching, teaching, and writing Kansas history and has dug deeply into primary sources-especially gubernatorial papers-that shed new light on the state. That research has enabled him to assemble a wider cast of characters and more entertaining collection of quotations than found in earlier histories and to better show how individual initiative and entrepreneurial aspirations have profoundly influenced the creation of present-day Kansas. Ranging from the days of cattle and railroads to the era of oil and agribusiness, this history situates the state in its own terms rather than as a sidebar to a larger American epic. Miner brings to its pages an identifiable Kansas character to preserve what is distinctive about the state's identity for future generations, echoing what one Kansan said over half a century ago: "Kansas is simply Kansas. May she never be tempted to become anything else."
Author : Margaret R. O’Leary
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491758732
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book R. D. O’Leary (1866–1936) written by Margaret R. O’Leary and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the span of forty years, Professor Raphael Dorman OLeary labored tirelessly to make his students understand the importance of originality and of apt expression in English composition. He especially loved words well chosen and dared his students to put beauty and smoothness and sinew into their sentences. He tried passionately to make them feel the dignity and the majesty of the English language at its best. When he died after a short illness in 1936, his personal effects passed among descendants until finally coming to rest with Dennis OLeary and his spouse, Margaret, who discovered them in a poor condition while restoring a family house. Amid Professor OLearys papers was his handwritten journal from the year 1914 to 1915. The journal displays the full measure of R. D. OLeary in his myriad academic, social, political, and religious experiences at the University of Kansas atop Mount Oread; in the adjacent city of Lawrence, Kansas; and while traveling to rural Kansas during the summer months and to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the dead of winter. Throughout his journal, Professor OLeary portrays with humor and pathos his encounters with students, colleagues, his spouse, his three sons, his mother, shopkeepers, religious zealots, pro-German zealots, anti-German zealots, drayers, Pullman conductors, bankers, politicians, publishers, educated spinsters, and garden wasps, while vividly describing cold classrooms, interminable whist parties, trilling sopranos, Kansas football games, and Lawrence seed stores. R. D. OLeary (18661936): Notes from Mount Oread 19141915 is a fascinating glimpse into the life and times of a revered English professor, half way through his forty years of teaching at the University of Kansas.
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Total Pages : 1264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Kansas Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kansas State Historical Society
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Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society written by Kansas State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Speeches Made in the House of Representatives Upon the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, January - July, 1854 written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eliza Johnston Wiggin
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Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Impressions of Early Kansas written by Eliza Johnston Wiggin and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictionized account of pioneer life in Troy, Kan.
Author : Missouri. Courts of Appeals
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Total Pages : 816 pages
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Download or read book Cases Determined in the St. Louis and the Kansas City Courts of Appeals of the State of Missouri written by Missouri. Courts of Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Missouri. Courts of Appeals
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Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cases Determined by the St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield Courts of Appeals of the State of Missouri written by Missouri. Courts of Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kansas. State Board of Agriculture
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Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture written by Kansas. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chuck Warner
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700627731
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Birds, Bones, and Beetles written by Chuck Warner and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, in natural history museums all across the country, colonies of dermestid beetles diligently devour the decaying flesh off of animal skeletons that are destined for the museum’s specimen collection. That time-saving process was developed and perfected at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum by Charles D. Bunker, a lowly assistant taxidermist who would rise to become the curator of recent vertebrates and who made an indelible mark on his field. That innovative breakthrough serves as a testament to the tenacity of a quietly determined naturalist. Bunker was part of the small team of men who constructed and installed the famous Panorama of North American Mammals, the centerpiece exhibit of the KU Natural History Museum located in Dyche Hall. That iconic building on the KU campus was expressly built to house the collection of mounted animals that impressed the world a decade earlier at the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition and World’s Fair. Once the panorama was completed, Bunker turned his attention to field collecting. Bunker’s field notes provide an accurate, authentic account of several expeditions to collect such specimens as well as a rare view of the extreme hardships of fieldwork in those early days. Perhaps most notable is “Bunk’s” 1911 expedition to western Kansas, where he discovered the fossil remains of a forty-five-foot-long sea serpent—later identified as Tylosaurus proriger, an aquatic reptile from the mosasaur genus and the largest example of the species found in North America. In 2014, Tylosaurus was named the marine fossil of the state of Kansas. Birds, Bones, and Beetles tells the story of a man whose passion for learning led to remarkable discoveries, extraordinary exhibits, and the prestigious careers of many students he mentored in the natural sciences.
Author : Kansas State Historical Society
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Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Transactions written by Kansas State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1st-6th biennial reports of the society, 1875-88, included in v. 1-4.
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Total Pages : 1170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book History of Montgomery County, Kansas written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of Kansas
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Total Pages : 372 pages
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Download or read book The Kansas University Science Bulletin written by University of Kansas and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted to the publication of the results of research by members of the University of Kansas.
Author : Ann B. Shteir
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656036
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Figuring it Out written by Ann B. Shteir and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fifteen original essays analyzing gender in the imagery of science.
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Total Pages : 420 pages
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Download or read book The Kansas City Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melvin Litton
Publisher : Crossroad Press
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Total Pages : 1346 pages
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Download or read book The Kansas Murder Trilogy written by Melvin Litton and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in one volume, the complete Kansas Murder Trilogy. KING HARVEST In the summer of 1975 a group of young men known as “the boys” make their stab for freedom harvesting wild hemp, or marijuana, on the Kansas plains. Several are Vietnam vets, and all are somehow marked, at odds with their time. They see themselves as inheritors of the mythic West, like buffalo hunters in league with their captain, Frankie Sage. As long as they remain unarmed their crime is counted only a misdemeanor. But a rival gang led by Valentine LaReese is prone to gunplay. The two are fated to clash. Privy to the action is CC Holtz, “King of the county,” who like any king demands tribute. Early on a double murder on the border of two counties calls out both sheriffs. Their investigation and the free-spirited harvest run parallel till all trails converge, leading to a wry, dramatic climax. BANKS OF THE RIVER Jack Marshal, known as “the Lion,” is a prideful sinner and reckless womanizer. When his 15-year-old daughter, Bonny, winds up pregnant by an old running buddy, Jack is outraged. And when the man is found dead, Jack is charged with murder. Alongside the coming trial play the many goings-on in a small Kansas town, summer 1960. There’s Ruthie, Jack's sister and local femme fatale, who does what with whom and when she pleases; the old priest, Father Horabet, who harbors sins of his own; Anna, Jack's wife, who quietly sustains herself and her daughter through the storm of scandal; and Johnny, Jack’s son, who faces howls of scorn pitching in little league baseball. Finally the town gathers for Jack’s trial. Beyond the drama of guilt or innocence plays the question of how men and women grapple for meaning in their wary coexistence. For temptation like the sunrise returns each day, even as we imagine ourselves standing on the banks of the river, we are immersed, carried in a greater current. SKIN FOR SKIN Part mystery and part myth born of fact and rumor left buried in the Kansas dirt. The story opens with a murder as desperate as the voice that stirs from the dust in witness. This voice, or knowing, haunts a young man, Faris Clayton, who will play in events to come. Time and place, 1934, Elim, Kansas. The action involves six gamblers initially robbed and a seventh absent that fateful night who is killed through foolish mischance. And whose older brother vows vengeance. Amid the swirl of death two farm families, the Claytons and the Wales, struggle to survive the drought and depression. Faris knows the gamblers, the victim, and the widow. Guesses the why of things and carries the burden of his knowing. Vera Ellen Wales, or Elle, stands at a greater remove and innocence. Enters the story a girl of 14 and matures into a young woman of 16 when she and Faris finally meet and lace hands. Meanwhile in Elim, guilt and madness play to the final scene.
