Four Minute Stories from the Kansas Plains
Engaging and surprising stories about midwestern people, history, and culture. Each episode is only four minutes long.
Yet More Cowboy Poems.
This one is an award-winner!
The Rinehart Book and Study Club.
Sophisticated conversations from the 1920s.
Never A Dull Moment
Kansas is a happening place!
Animal Husbandry.
A brief summary of the Grange movement,
The Manhattan Kansas Book Club
In existence for 86 years.
More Cowboy Poems.
Enlightenment for city slickers.
A Futile Search for the City of Gold
Francisco Coronado, in 1541, didn't find what he was looking for.
A True Kansas Welcome
No one is a stranger in Kansas.
The Abilene PTA
A really sweet story about public schools.
Even More Discomforts in the Old West!
All kinds of critters made life miserable.
Cowboy poet
You can tell a lot about a woman by how she builds a fence.
Writing From Prison.
Powerful words.
Debatable Issues in the 1870s.
Hot topics!
A Kansas Playwright.
He won an Academy Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
Two Amusing Poems.
A bit of doggerel.
Exceedingly Eloquent Insults!
Kansas newspaper editors were not at a loss for words.
Never a Dull Moment in Kansas
Trials of biblical proportion!.
An Uplifting Story
A bumpy ride in Kansas!
What People Have Said About Kansas Over Time
For Better and for Worse
Prairie Madness
Not all settlers survived frontier life.
Smashing Saloons!
The Women's Christian Temperance Union,
Life at St. John's Military Academy
Strict discipline!
What were Patent Newspapers?
Pre-printed news in frontier days.
Frontier Gambling Was Not for the Faint of Heart
Dangerous times at the card table.
Paying people to move to Kansas.
The New England Emigrant Aid Society,
High Times in McPherson!
From the 1880s.
The Ku Klux Klan in Kansas
At one time, 100,000 Klan members in Kansas.
Salina Before the Internet
Literary clubs in Salina in the early 1900s.
Everybody has an opinion about Kansas
Both good and bad.
Debatable issues in the early days.
Social and debate clubs in the late 1800s.
Policing sex in the sunflower state
A sad chapter in Kansas history.
John Wayne's West
Cattle drives were a real challenge.
Mayoral proclamations were just terrific!
Reflections of a bygone era.
A terrific Kansas welcome
No one does it better than Kansans.
Everybody Loved Lawrence Welk
Except native Kansan Arnold Bauer
Being Successful in Business in 1905
It all starts with learning shorthand,
The Art and Science of Water Witching
Not all are blessed with divining or dowsing for water.
An Uplifting Story
About a bus line that didn't have a single passenger on its first run.
Circumventing Prohibition
Kansas had various forms of prohibition in place for over 100 years,
Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite!
Living conditions in the old west were less than ideal.
