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Kansas State Evolution: How the Culture & Traditions Survived In the Harsh Timelines

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Written by Samantha Kaylee
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The US state of Kansas, nicknamed the Sunflower State, is known for producing more wheat than any other state in the Union and thus earning the title of the breadbasket of the country. Home to the largest cattle market in the world, Kansas has an economy that is primarily based on agricultural produce.

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Kansas and the Women’s Suffrage Movement

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Written by Alanah Reid
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Kansas holds a very special place in the history of the women’s suffrage movement, being one of the first states to make real progress towards the vote for women. As the first state to hold a referendum on women’s suffrage and the eighth earliest to extend full voting rights to women, Kansas was continually involved in the movement and acted as a leading state in the fight for equal suffrage.  

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A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

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Written by Charles Dickens
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Category: Kansas Holiday Articles

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PREFACE

I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.  May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.

Their faithful Friend and Servant, C. D. December, 1843.

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Forts In Early Kansas

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Written by Anna E. Arnold
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Category: Kansas Military History

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Many forts were established in early Kansas; a few by the fur companies, some by the War Department, some by state troops, a number by settlers as a place of refuge from the Indians, and a few by free-state and proslavery forces during the Territorial struggle. Some of them consisted merely of a wall of earth thrown up, others of a strongly built log cabin within a line of earthworks or line of palisades. Many of them were more pretentious, and were built of logs, adobe, or stone. Some of the forts established by the National Government cost many thousands of dollars and most of them had large land reserves. As the settlements moved westward the necessity for the forts no longer existed, and with the exception of Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley, which are still maintained by the National Government as army posts, they fell into disuse.

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Kansas As An Indian Country

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Written by Anna E. Arnold
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Kansas Belonged to the Indians 

During the years when the white men were traveling back and forth across Kansas they were not making settlements here. The country remained in the undisputed possession of the Indians. The white men did not want it as yet. They looked upon these vast prairies, not as a resource, but as so much land to be crossed in reaching places farther west. But changing conditions in the states east of the Mississippi River made people begin to look upon Kansas in a different light. The country there was becoming thickly settled and the people wanted the lands of the eastern Indians.

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The Kansas Spirit

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Written by Anna E. Arnold
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Introduction 

Kansas is a great State; great in size and wealth, great in industries and resources, and great in what it has accomplished. But there are states that are larger, others that are wealthier, and many that have larger cities, greater population, a longer history, and more splendid memorials, so it is not for these things that Kansas is especially noted among the states. The quality that is the mark of its distinction is the character of its history and of its people.

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