Author: Family Heritage Society
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Category : Ness County (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Author: Family Heritage Society
Publisher:
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Category : Lane County (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Family Heritage Society (McPherson, Kansas)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Author: Ramon Powers
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806185902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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The exodus of the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to flee from Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an important event in American Indian history. It is equally important in the history of towns like Oberlin, Kansas, where Cheyenne warriors killed more than forty settlers. The Cheyennes, in turn, suffered losses through violent encounters with the U.S. Army. More than a century later, the story remains familiar because it has been told by historians and novelists, and on film. In The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers explore how the event has been remembered, told, and retold. They examine the recollections of Indians and settlers and their descendants, and they consider local history, mass-media treatments, and literature to draw thought-provoking conclusions about how this story has changed over time. The Cheyennes’ journey has always been recounted in melodramatic stereotypes, and for the last fifty years most versions have featured “noble savages” trying to reclaim their birthright. Here, Leiker and Powers deconstruct those stereotypes and transcend them, pointing out that history is never so simple. “The Cheyennes’ flight,” they write, “had left white and Indian bones alike scattered along its route from Oklahoma to Montana.” In this view, the descendants of the Cheyennes and the settlers they encountered are all westerners who need history as a “way of explaining the bones and arrowheads” that littered the plains. Leiker and Powers depict a rural West whose diverse peoples—Euro-American and Native American alike—seek to preserve their heritage through memory and history. Anyone who lives in the contemporary Great Plains or who wants to understand the West as a whole will find this book compelling.

Author: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Examines the social impact of drought and depression in Kansas, illustrating how both farm and town families dealt with the deprivation by finding odd jobs, working in government programmes, or depending on federal and private assistance.

Author: Homer E. Socolofsky
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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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. Although excellent specialized bibliographies have been published, this volume is the most complete compilation of historical and related materials for the state. Its broad and diverse scope ranges from standard political and economic studies to social and environmental histories, to local studies, and to regional studies with special significance to the state. The volume is divided into sections on prehistory; indigenous population; early exploration; territorial period; statehood; Kansas since 1898; agriculture; economic life; transportation; cultural life; education; science and medicine; social history; general histories and reference guides; local and county history; historiography materials; and historic sites. Entries include informative annotations designed to aid the novice and the scholar. The volume is thoroughly indexed by author and subject and includes the only existing index for all the major articles appearing over the past 125 years in the Kansas State Historical Society's major publications.

Author: Millbrook
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780740458996
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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Author: Daniel Fitzgerald
Publisher:
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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This illustrated guide to Kansas ghost towns will delight travelers and armchair tourists alike. Organized by region, it tells the story of 100 towns that have either disappeared without a trace or are only 'a shadowy remnant of what they once were.'

Author: Dolores Jean Ogden
Publisher:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Author: Family Heritage Society
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Category : Russell County (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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