Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
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Category : Food relief
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Parsons and Horton, Kans
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
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Category : Food relief
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : Food relief
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Parsons
Author: David Mattox
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439636885
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Parsons, located in southeast Kansas, owes its existence to the railroad. When the first Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad locomotive reached the southern border of Kansas in June 1870, the railroad won two prizes, the coveted right to build across Oklahoma Indian Territory and the right to acquire extensive land grants in the territory. The fall of the same year, railroad executives selected a site for a major junction and terminal. The Parsons Town Company sold its first lots in 1871 at Parsons Junction, named for railroad president Judge Levi Parsons. Because of the towns phenomenal growth, it soon earned the title of Infant Wonder of the West. The photographs contained in this book, including some of the earliest known of Parsons, serve as testimony to the energies and ingenuity of early settlers. These images also depict the development of Parsons-on-the-Prairie and its transformation from frontier town to the Queen City of the Great Southwest.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439636885
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Parsons, located in southeast Kansas, owes its existence to the railroad. When the first Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad locomotive reached the southern border of Kansas in June 1870, the railroad won two prizes, the coveted right to build across Oklahoma Indian Territory and the right to acquire extensive land grants in the territory. The fall of the same year, railroad executives selected a site for a major junction and terminal. The Parsons Town Company sold its first lots in 1871 at Parsons Junction, named for railroad president Judge Levi Parsons. Because of the towns phenomenal growth, it soon earned the title of Infant Wonder of the West. The photographs contained in this book, including some of the earliest known of Parsons, serve as testimony to the energies and ingenuity of early settlers. These images also depict the development of Parsons-on-the-Prairie and its transformation from frontier town to the Queen City of the Great Southwest.
The Wonder of the Great Southwest
Author: Parsons (Kan.). Board of Trade
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Category : Parsons (Kan.)
Languages : en
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Category : Parsons (Kan.)
Languages : en
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Meyer Brothers Druggist
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Category : Pharmaceutical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Category : Pharmaceutical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Revised Ordinances of Parsons, Kansas, 1930 ...
Author: Parsons (Kan.).
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Languages : en
Pages : 499
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Languages : en
Pages : 499
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Cities on the Plains
Author: James R. Shortridge
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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"Drawing on rich historical research filtered through cultural geography, Shortridge looks at the 118 communities that ever achieved a population of 2,500 and unravels the many factors that influenced the growth of urban Kansas. He tells how mercantilism dominated urban thinking in territorial days until after statehood, when cities competed for the capital, prisons, universities, and other institutions. He also shows how geography and size were employed by entrepreneurs and government officials to prepare strategies for economic development. And he describes how the railroads especially promoted the founding of cities in the nineteenth century - and how this system has fared since 1950 in the face of globalization and the growth of interstate highways."--BOOK JACKET.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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"Drawing on rich historical research filtered through cultural geography, Shortridge looks at the 118 communities that ever achieved a population of 2,500 and unravels the many factors that influenced the growth of urban Kansas. He tells how mercantilism dominated urban thinking in territorial days until after statehood, when cities competed for the capital, prisons, universities, and other institutions. He also shows how geography and size were employed by entrepreneurs and government officials to prepare strategies for economic development. And he describes how the railroads especially promoted the founding of cities in the nineteenth century - and how this system has fared since 1950 in the face of globalization and the growth of interstate highways."--BOOK JACKET.
The Town that Loved KATY
Author: I. E. Quastler
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ISBN: 9780942035940
Category : Parsons (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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ISBN: 9780942035940
Category : Parsons (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The Official Railway List
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Annual Report
Author: Kansas. Dept. of Labor and Industry
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics
Author: Kansas. Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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