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1KanColl Articles</h1></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container unequal-columns-box unequal-columns-box-shrink" id="ed-632630187"><div class="inner"><figure class="ed-element ed-image" id="ed-632626622"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20width='800'%20viewBox='0%200%20800%20892'%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%3E%3Crect%20width='800'%20height='892'%20style='fill:%20%23F7F7F7'%20/%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" data-src="/assets/images/wheatc.gif" class="ed-lazyload"></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-headline custom-theme" id="ed-632624793"><h5>Quick Scroll</h5></div><div class="ed-element ed-container wv-boxed wv-spacer preset-columns-five-v2-5-column" id="ed-587905271"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-container columns-box wv-overflow_visible" id="ed-587905274"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-headline custom-theme" id="ed-587848225"><h6><a href="/articles/index.html#ed-587768415" class="wv-link-elm">Special Selections</a></h6></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container columns-box wv-overflow_visible" id="ed-587905277"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-headline custom-theme" id="ed-587848231"><h6><a href="/articles/index.html#ed-587842319" class="wv-link-elm">Letters and Diaries</a></h6></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container columns-box wv-overflow_visible" id="ed-587905280"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-headline custom-theme" id="ed-587848237"><h6><a href="/articles/index.html#ed-587888807" class="wv-link-elm">Reminiscences</a></h6></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container columns-box wv-overflow_visible" id="ed-587905283"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-headline custom-theme" id="ed-587848246"><h6><a href="/articles/index.html#ed-587889023" class="wv-link-elm">Reference Shelf</a></h6></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container columns-box wv-overflow_visible" id="ed-587905286"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-headline custom-theme" id="ed-587848252"><h6><a href="/articles/index.html#ed-587902880" class="wv-link-elm">Biographies</a></h6></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container wv-boxed wv-spacer" id="ed-587768415"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-headline custom-theme" id="ed-587768418"><h4>Special Selections</h4></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587768421"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587768424"><p>Connie Dipasquale's <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/orphans/index.html" title="">"Orphan Trains of Kansas"</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587768427"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587768430"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/fleming/" title="">Kansas, 'Ad Astra Per Aspera'</a>" by Roscoe Fleming</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587768433"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587768436"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/riley.htm" title="">"A Tale of the Airly Days"</a>, by James Whitcomb Riley</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587768439"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587768442"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/tcarney.htm" title="">Preface to The Way It Was</a>, by Tom Carney</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587768445"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587768448"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/progress/" title="">Progress in Kansas</a>", the 1930s Kansas State Chamber of Commerce magazine</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587768451"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587768454"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/hwhite/index.html" title="">A Tribute to Homer White</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587768457"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587768460"><p>
1Paul Turner's "<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/pturner/index.html" title="">The Death of Jesse Turner</a>"</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587768463"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587768466"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/nelson/onlyyes.htm" title="">Only Yesterday</a>" - Stories by Lynn H. Nelson</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587768469"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587768472"><p>Bus Cornelius: <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/bus/index.html" title="">Lane, Kansas History</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587768475"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587768478"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/nelson/sunflowr.htm" title="">A True Kansas Sunflower Story</a>" by Lynn Nelson</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587768481"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587768484"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/dogs.htm" title="">Gone to the Dogs</a>" by Dick Taylor</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587768487"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587768490"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/nelson/chicago.htm" title="">A Kansan in South Chicago</a>" - More Stories by Lynn Nelson</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587768493"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587768496"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/nelson/autumn.htm" title="">The Small Pleasures of Autumn</a>" by Lynn Nelson</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587768499"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587768502"><p>Centennial Anniversary (first published on August 15, 1896) </p><p style="margin-left: 40px;">of <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/what's_the_matter_with_kansas.html" title="">What's the Matter with Kansas?</a> by William Allen White</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587768505"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587768508"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/kstrivia/" title="">Kansas Fact and Fancy</a>: Trivia questions about Kansas history</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587768511"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587768514"><p>"Buffalo Bill, Won't You Come Out and Fight?" by Dick Taylor</p></div><figure class="ed-element ed-audio" id="ed-587842313"><audio controls="" controlslist="nodownload"><source type="audio/mpeg" src="/assets/buffalobill2-YQPKhJO3JjQSk7_j3X-7iQ.mp3"></audio></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container wv-boxed wv-spacer" id="ed-587842319"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-headline custom-theme" id="ed-587842322"><h4>Letters and Diaries</h4></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587842325"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587842328"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/cruzan/index.html" title="">A Soldier's Diary</a>: The World War I Diary of Benjamin Edgar Cruzan</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587842334"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587842337"><p>Elijah Nelson Doughty's <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/nichols/index.html" title="">Civil War Diary of Travels</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587842340"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587842343"><p>Diary of William Anderson Thornton: <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/thornton.htm" title="">Military Expedition to New Mexico</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587842349"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587842352"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/jragle/index.html" title="">The Ragle Letters</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587842355"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587842358"><p>Wells: <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/wells/wellsmn.htm" title="">Letters of a Kansas Pioneer</a>, 1855-1860</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587842364"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587842367"><p>Edwin Tucker's <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/tuckerdi.htm" title="">Diary</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587842370"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587842373"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/beesonltr.htm" title="">Letter</a> of Mary Jones</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587842379"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587842382"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/wmsmith.htm" title="">Letter</a> from William Smith (1859)</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587842385"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587842388"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/attey/" title="">Prairie Homestead</a>: Letters of Clay and Kate Bowen (1886-1887/1925)</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587842394"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587842397"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/beedltr.htm" title="">
1Letter to Edward Beedles</a> from Richard Smith (1870)</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587842400"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587842403"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/sododge.htm" title="">At the Other End of the Bridge</a></p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Letter to Editor of the Dodge City Times (1886)</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587842409"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587842412"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/swan.htm" title="">Kansas Penitentiary</a>, 1913</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587842415"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587842418"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/thorne.htm" title="">Life on the Plains</a>: Elizabeth (Totten) Thorne's 1917 letter to Emma Forter</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container wv-boxed wv-spacer" id="ed-587888807"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-headline custom-theme" id="ed-587888810"><h4>Reminiscences</h4></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888813"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888816"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/berges/theoldtrunk.php" title="">The Old Wooden Trunk</a> by Debbie Berges</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888819"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888822"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/berges/theswing.php" title="">The Swing</a> and keepsake memories by Debbie Berges</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888825"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888828"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/berges/heritage.php" title="">A Henneberg Heritage</a> by Debbie Berges</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888831"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888834"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/berges/thespring.php" title="">The Spring Over On The Bluff</a> by Debbie Berges</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888837"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888840"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/berges/debbiesnotes.php" title="">Henneberg Family Notes</a> by Debbie Berges</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888843"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888846"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/sipe/index.html" title="">Memories of a Kansas Farm Boy</a>, by Winton Slagle Sipe</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888849"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888852"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/stewart/index.html" title="">Personal Memoirs</a> of Watson Stewart</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888855"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888858"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/blain/index.html" title="">The Buffalow Hunt</a>, by R. O. Blain</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888861"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888864"><p>Nancy Wisner's <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/cobb.htm" title="">Recollections of Pioneer Life</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888867"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888870"><p>E. T. McFarland's <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/tilton.htm" title="">Memories of Kansas Settlement</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888873"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888876"><p>Robert Condon Stone's <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/rcstone.htm" title="">Reminiscences</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888879"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888882"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/beeson.htm" title="">Autobiography</a> of Mary Beeson</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888885"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888888"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/lanepoem.html" title="">Nick Names of Lane, Kansas</a>" by Dolly Belt</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888891"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888894"><p>George A. Root's <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/darnell0.htm" title="">Reminiscences of William Darnell</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888897"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888900"><p>Benjamin Franklin Smith and his <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/bfsmith.htm" title="">Memories of Lincoln and Douglas</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888903"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888906"><p>U. S. Grant Sanders' account of <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/sanders.htm" title="">Frank Bursinger</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888909"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888912"><p>Fred Wishart's 1898 ride on <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/zulu.htm" title="">The Zulu</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888915"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888918"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/memories/me.htm" title="">hello</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888921"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888924"><p>Milton Beach's <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/beach.htm" title="">Ice House Memories</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888927"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888930"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/memories/jacobs.htm" title="">Bootleggers in Jewell County</a>" by Mike Jacobs</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888933"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888936"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/seken.htm" title="">Autobiography of Sarah Edna Eutsler Kennedy</a>"</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888939"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888942"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/garen/garen2.htm" title="">Elizabeth Garen's Scrap Book</a>" by Jim Bullock</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888945"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888948"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/windmill.htm" title="">
1The Old Windmill</a>" by C.L. Edson</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888951"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888954"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/snake.htm" title="">The Pet Snake Saga</a>" by Faith James</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888957"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888960"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/mcewen/" title="">Dr. McEwen Treats Emmett Dalton!</a>"</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888963"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888966"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/young/" title="">The Factual History of Kansas</a>" by Sherman Peter Young</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888969"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888972"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/nelson/dust.htm" title="">Living with Dust</a>" by Lynn Nelson</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888975"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888978"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/sumner/brownie.htm" title="">Tales of the Smokey Hills: Brownie, a Hobo</a>" by Jim Sumner</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888981"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888984"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/memories/jbanis.htm" title="">The Sirens Began Wailing . . . </a>" by Jim Banister</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888987"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888990"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/downing/jc.htm" title="">J. C. Returns Home</a>" by Ray Downing</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888993"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587888996"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/downing/sheriff.htm" title="">J. C. Redfield: Sheriff</a>" by Ray Downing</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587888999"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889002"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/wedding.htm" title="">A Pretty Church Wedding</a> contributed by John Maier</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889005"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889008"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/josie/" title="">Josie's Ledger</a> by Josephine Winifred Hammond Crawford</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889011"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889014"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/nelson/park.htm" title="">Concerts in the Park</a>" by Lynn Nelson</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889017"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889020"><p>"<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/skies.htm" title="">Kansas Skies</a>" by Mike Hayes</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container wv-boxed wv-spacer" id="ed-587889023"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-headline custom-theme" id="ed-587889026"><h4>Reference Shelf</h4></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889029"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889032"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/onecat.htm" title="">Oldtime Hardball</a> -- We're talkin' BASEBALL by Dick Taylor</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889035"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889038"><p>Excerpt from Dr. R. C. McClymonds' <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/mcclymonds/" title="">Physician's Pocket Account Book</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889041"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889044"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/songs/amazing_grace.htm" title="">Amazing Grace</a> by John Newton</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889047"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889050"><p>
1<a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/speeches/bryan.htm" title="">The Cross of Gold Speech</a> by Willliam Jennings Bryan</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889053"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889056"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/whittier.html" title="">The Kansas Poems</a> of John Greenleaf Whittier</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889059"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889062"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/ruthcons.htm" title="">Aunt Ruth's Pioneer Woman</a> by Mary Ann Sachse Brown</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889065"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889068"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/raynesford/index.html" title="">The Raynesford Papers</a> -- Notes on Kansas Trails and the Butterfield Overland Despatch</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889071"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889074"><p>James C. Malin: <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/malin/index.html" title="">A Sampler</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889077"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889080"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/dragoons.htm" title="">The Life of the Dragoon Enlisted Men</a> by J. Patrick Hughes, Ph.D.</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889083"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889086"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/phillip1.htm" title="">A History of Lawrence in Rhyme</a> - Phillips</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889089"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889092"><p>Betts Civil War list of <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/betts.htm" title="">Kansas POWs at Camp Ford</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889095"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889098"><p>Eberly List of <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/eberly.htm" title="">1877 Unit Measures</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889101"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889104"><p>William E. Smith's <a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/otrail/ortrail0.htm" title="">The Oregon Trail through Pottawatomie County</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889107"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889110"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/smrfld/smfld0.htm" title="">SUMMERFIELD</a> on the KC, Wyandotte, &amp; NW RR</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587889113"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587889116"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/funston.htm" title="">Camp Funston</a>, 1918</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container wv-boxed wv-spacer" id="ed-587902880"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-headline custom-theme" id="ed-587902883"><h4>Biographies</h4></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587902886"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587902889"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/stafford/index.html" title="">Margaret Young Stafford: A Life of Strength</a> by James E. Stafford</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587902892"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587902895"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/gmclin.htm" title="">Gordon McLin: Kansan</a>. - adapted from Rev. Paul B. Mitchell's remarks</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587902898"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587902901"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/burnett/burnett.htm" title="">McKinley Burnett: Fired by a Dream</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587902904"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587902907"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/martin/index.html" title="">The Remarkable Young Woman from Turkey Creek</a> by Gail Martin</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587902910"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587902913"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/dreamer.htm" title="">Who was the Wheat Dreamer?</a> by Michelle Stafford</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587902916"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587902919"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/memories/cora.htm" title="">Cora Pickering Cordell</a>&nbsp;by Julie Schossow</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587902922"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587902925"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/jbrown.htm" title="">John Brown</a> of Osawatomie</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587902928"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587902931"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/browns.htm" title="">The Browns</a>, kinfolk of Marilyn Getty and Barbara Rentenbach</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587902934"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587902937"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/dingus.htm" title="">Dingus' Last Ride</a></p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587902940"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587902943"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/tomsmith.htm" title="">Tom Smith</a> of Abilene</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587902946"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587902949"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/erictaylor/erictays.htm" title="">The Life Altering Decisions of Joseph Dvorak and Francis Zvolanek</a> by Eric Taylor</p></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-container" id="ed-587902952"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-587902955"><p><a href="https://kancoll.org/articles/rothrock.html" title="">Abraham Rothrock</a> by Barbara Hill</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-reference ed-reference-container wv-boxed wv-spacer footer preset-footer-skadi-v2-default" style="border-color: rgb(132, 0, 0);" id="ed-587768403" data-reference="586779743"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-container wv-boxed wv-spacer preset-unequal-columns-v2-4-30-70" id="ed-632646226"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-container unequal-columns-box unequal-columns-box-flex" id="ed-632646229"><a class="inner" href="/index.html"><div class="ed-element ed-logo" id="ed-586793960"><img src="/assets/images/typelogo.png" alt="KanColl Type Logo with windmill icon"></div></a></div><div class="ed-element ed-container unequal-columns-box unequal-columns-box-shrink" id="ed-632646232"><div class="inner"><div class="ed-element ed-headline custom-theme" id="ed-586801928"><h6>New volunteers are welcomed, and contributions are invited!</h6></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ed-element ed-text custom-theme" id="ed-586799954"><p>The Kansas Collection website is managed by Susan Stafford and Dick Taylor and was created by <a href="https://kancoll.org/lynn/lynn.html" title="">Lynn H. 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