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viii, 319 pages : 23 cm, Includes bibliographical references and index, The land and its native people -- The White Man comes to the Great Plains -- Indian removal and Christian missionary efforts -- Trails and early transportation -- \"Bleeding Kansas\"--the territorial period -- The first years of statehood -- The development of the railroads -- The cattle trade: trail herds, towns, and ranchers -- The frontier is settled -- Immigrants on the prairies -- Prohibition to populism, 1870-1900 -- Progressive politics and progress to a new century -- The first world war and a \"return to normalcy\" -- The changing, troubled twenties -- The \"dirty thirties\": Kansas and the Great Depression -- Changing times: World War II and its aftermath -- Kansas and the arts -- Change, controversy, and commemoration

Author

Richmond, Robert W., author

Publisher

[Saint Charles, Missouri] : Forum Press

Published

1974

Language

EN

ISBN

9780882730257

Subjects

Travel, History, Humanities