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Midwest Pioneers: Genealogical Records
CD1860 U.S. Federal Census Index: CA, ID, IA, KS, NE, NV, NM, TX, UT, WA
CDKansas 1855 Territorial Census Index
History of Kansas Newspapers: 1854-1916
Ballots And Bullets: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas
Pioneers and Pilgrims: The Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde in Manitoba, Nebraska, and Kansas, 1874 to 1882
Kansas Territorial Settlers of 1860 Who Were Born in TN, VA, NC & SC
85th Anniversary Membership Registry and Roster of All Members of the Kansas Society of the National Society, Sons of the American Revolution, from 1892 to 1977: Showing Ancestor From Whom Descent is Claimed
Home Town News: William Allen White and the Emporia Gazette
The Northern Tier: Or, Life Among the Homestead Settlers
Pioneers of the Bluestem Prairie; Kansas Counties: Clay, Geary, Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley Wabaunsee, Washington
Visiting Historic Sites on the Central Hi-Plains
Rock Creek Crossings: Six Generations on the Kansas Prairie
The Forgotten Settlers of Kansas, Volume 22.
Sod-House Days: Letters from a Kansas Homesteader, 1877-78
West of Wichita: Settling the High Plains of Kansas, 1865-1890
This volume, which presents a "slice-of-life" on the Plains during its early settlement, adds rich detail to our understanding of the struggle for survival in a harsh landscape that tested the hardiest pioneer. Miner concentrates not only on the major economic events of the period--railroad building, Indian raids, the grasshopper invasion of 1874, the blizzard of 1886--but also on the more personal experiences equally important: building sod houses, choosing crops, filing of claims, fighting varmints, and dealing with the deaths of children on the prairie.Kansas Past
Times and Remembrance: A Kansas Legacy
KANSAS PAST is a compilation of 28 historical vignettes, all true, some tragic, some comic, illustrating the lesser-known people, places, and events that were shaped by or helped to shape the state known as Kansas
Kansas History: An Annotated Bibliography
Historical Atlas of Kansas
The first volume in the series State Bibliographies, this book provides comprehensive coverage of secondary materials on Kansas history and also includes useful references to major archival and manuscript collections. Its broad and diverse scope ranges from standard political and economic studies to social and environmental histories, to local studies, to regional studies with special significance to the state. It includes informative annotations designed to aid the novice and the scholar, and is thoroughly indexed by author and subject.Peacekeeping on the Plains: Army Operations in Bleeding Kansas
Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State, 1854-2000
History of Allen and Woodson Counties, Kansas
The RAMSEYs of Bourbon County, Kansas
Farewells: a Collection of Thumbnail Biographies from the Editorial Pages of the El Dorado Times
History of Butler County, Kansas
Main & Central, El Dorado Kansas 1860-1985
Butler CountyChase County Historical Sketches
Chase CountyGhost Settlements on the Prairie: a Biography of Thurman, Kansas
Chase CountySold!
Platt Book of Cherokee County, Kansas(1902)
The History of Cheyenne County, Kansas
Notes on Early Clark County, Kansas; Volume II, August 1940-1941
Yesterday's Tomorrow: a History of Strawn, Kansas and Surrounding Territory
Coffee CountyHistory of Cowley County, Kansas Vol. 1: the Beginning
History of Cowley County, Kansas, Heritage, Two Volume Set 2
Blaze Marks on the Border. the Story of Arkansas City, Kansas Founded 1870-1871. Written for the Centennial Years 1970-1971
Doniphan County, Kansas, History and Directory for 1868-9
Cowley CountyFrom Doniphan to Verdun, the Official History of the 140th Infantry
(1920)Douglas County, Kansas, Family Histories, 1991-1992
Complete Tombstone Census of Douglas County, Kansas
Rural Schools and Schoolhouses of Douglas County, Kansas
Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas: an Informal History
Nineteenth Century Houses in Lawrence, Kansas
Douglas CountyOft' Told Tales [a History of Edwards County, Kansas, to 1900]
The Kinsley-Edwards County Centennial, 1873-1973
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Our Ancestors' Quest for Freedom Realized in Schoenchen, KansasEllis County
History of Finney County, Kansas
Dodge City Up Through a Century in Story and Pictures
Dodge City: Queen of Cowtowns: "the Wickedest Little City in America" 1872-1886
Facts and fiction about the town with the wild reputation.
Ford CountyFort Riley and Its Neighbors: Military Money and Economic Growth, 1853-1895
Geary CountyHistory of Grant County Families: Volume 2
History of Grant County, Kansas
History of Early Greeley County: A Story of its Tracks, Trails, and TribulationsThe History of Greenwood County, Kansas
Anatomy of a Town: Hesston, Kansas
Harvey CountyHaskell County, Kansas, 1887-1987: 100 Years Beneath the Plow: A Historical Anthology
From Dust Bowl to Green Circles: a Case Study of Haskell County, KansasAt the River's Bend: an Illustrated History of Kansas City: Independence and Jackson County
1860 Federal Census, Johnson County, Kansas
Historic Johnson County: a Bird's Eye View of the Development of the Area
Johnson County Kansas Cemetery Index
Polk's Parsons (Labette, Kansas) City Directory 1965, Including: Labette County
The 20th Century in Labette County 1900-1999
Indian Raids in Lincoln County, Kansas, 1864 and 1869
From Pioneering to the Present, Linn County...
Linn County, Kansas: A History
History of Logan County, Kansas: From Prairie Pioneers to Pioneers of ProgressHistory of Emporia in Lyon County, Kansas
A Pictorial and Family History of Waterville, Kansas
Marshall CountyA History of Meade County, Kansas
Surely it Floweth with Milk and Honey - a History of Montgomery County, Kansas to 1930Marriages of Neosho County, Kansas
Sod and Stubble
The CAHILLs of Cincinnati and Related Families: Including the DOANEs of Osborne County, Kansas, and the DAVISes of Lee County, Iowa
Osborne CountyPhillips County, Kansas, Settlers Prior to 1900
Pioneer Saints and Sinners; Pratt County from its Beginnings to 1900
The Time That Was the Courageous Acts and Accounts of Rawlins County, Kansas 1875-1915
History of Rawlins County Kansas (Two Volumes)
Reno's Response: History of Reno County's War Work Activities During the World War 1917-1918
Reno County: The Early Years
(1920)Up From the Sod: the Life Story of a Kansas Prairie County
Rice CountyRiley County, Kansas; a Story of Early Settlements, Rich Valleys, Azure Skies and Sunflowers
Rush County, Kansas ....A Century in Story & Pictures
City on the Move: the Story of Salina
Saline CountyA History of the Sedgwick County Medical Society
Peerless Princess of the Plains Postcard Views of Early Wichita
Honor Roll. Shawnee County, KansasThe Melting Pot: A History of Shawnee County's Ethnic Communities
A Grey Mound and a Crystalline Hill the Story of the Great Topeka Tornado
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Thirty Years in Topeka: A Historical SketchStories in Stone: a Sharing of the Lives of Some Who Rest in Topeka CemeteryShawnee County
The History of the Reamsville Methodist Church
Smith CountyStanton County Kansas, 1887-1987
History of Stevens County, Kansas
Portrait & Biographical Album of Sumner County, Kansas
Land of the Windmills-Thomas County, Kansas
Tombstone Inscriptions
Union CountyHistory of Wichita County Kansas
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Woodson County, Kansas Marriages, 1860-1985"Silver City, " a History of the Argentine Community of Kansas City, Kansas
Wyandotte: A Pictorial History: The Early Years
Wyandotte County
Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865
Centennial Cookbook Our 100th Year 1890-1990 (First Lutheran Church Phillipsburg, Kansas)
Prairie Recipes and Kitchen Antiques
Pictures on My Wall: a Lifetime in Kansas
ADAMS - KIMBREL Family: A Century in Kansas
STEVENSON and ANDERSON Families of New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, and Kansas
A Tree Grows in Kansas: Kansas Descendants of the Dedham Branch of the AVERY FamilyThe CALLAHANs of Kansas: With BRADY, BURKE, O'DONNELL, RYAN, WHITE & YOUNG Genealogies
The Music of Our Lives the HUTCHINSONs of Smith County, Kansas, Their History and Descendants
The John Stephen McFADIN Family of North Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, and Kansas
The RAMSEYs of Bourbon County, KansasThe Northern Tier: Or Life Among the Homestead Settlers
Original, circa 1920 Post Card: Looking West on 5th Ave. (Avenue), Arkansas City, Kansas... Bank (and) Post Office
Kansas Quilts & Quilters
"Mary Ellison came to Kansas in 1870, keeping house for her father and numerous siblings before raising her own family. By the age of 92, she estimated, she'd made more than three hundred quilts. Rose Kretsinger studied design at the turn of the century in Europe and at the Art Institute of Chicago. Quilts made from her award-winning designs are now in an art museum collection. Kay McFarland sold quilts to put herself through law school in the 1960s. Today she is the first woman on the Kansas Supreme Court."These three women, along with thousands of other Kansans from a variety of backgrounds, have pursued quiltmaking for economic and artistic purposes. The result of their efforts: a treasury of quilts, from plain to fancy, utilitarian to decorative.
"In 1986 the Kansas Quilt Project began an ambitious effort to find and document Kansas quilts. Aided by legions of volunteers, this group catalogued 13,107 quilts and quilt tops made in Kansas or brought to the state. From this cataloguing, from interviews with quilters and their descendants, and from extensive historical research, the six authors of this book have produced the first comprehensive discussion of quilts and quiltmaking in Kansas.
"They focus on specific types of quilts and fabrics, such as red-and-green appliqué quilts and conversation prints; regional and ethnic quiltmaking communities, including Mennonites, African-Americans, and an unusually prolific lented group of quilters in Emporia a half-century ago; and present-day quilting groups.
"Featuring 165 photographs, 68 in full-color, this volume is a visually rich mosaic that illuminates the enduring community of quiltmakers in Kansas and chronicles its relation to the historical and cultural heritage of the state."
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