Category: Kansas
The John Brown Historic Site
In the years just ahead of the Civil War, thousands of people came to Kansas ahead of a critical vote on whether the new state…
A Safari Couple’s Museum
Osa Johnson was certainly not an imposing figure, but give her a gun and she could drop some of the most ferocious animals in the…
The Safari Museum
Many towns have a museum of local history. But why is Chanute, Kansas home to the Safari Museum? It may seem like a piece of…
Shawnee Mission
It was one of the most ethnically mixed schools in America with whites and slaves teaching children of many backgrounds from the age of 5…
A Midwest Mission
As Europeans crossed the Atlantic, those who had been living on the eastern seaboard for centuries were often forced to leave their homes. Here’s the…
The Dalton Gang
Today these streets and the adjacent alley are peaceful avenues lines with small town businesses. The fall of 1892, it was the sight of citizens…
A Hometown Holdup
Bob, Emmit and Grat–three brothers that would return to their hometown to do business–but the business to be transacted would cost the lives of some…
The Oklahoma Land Rush
Imagine a train chugging south out of Kansas with people jumping from the cars all along its route. The reason they jumped and mass chaos…
Limited Married Life at Fort Hays
(Hays, Kansas) – For an enlisted man at Fort Hays, it wasn’t enough to win a young woman’s heart and ask her hand in marriage….
The Men at Fort Hays
The Army certainly needs strong, upstanding young men and women to fill its ranks today. But in the late 19th Century, the reasons men enlisted…
