Ten Kansas Military Legends to Know
Kansas Tourism General Lewis W. Walt General Lewis Walt was born in Wabaunsee County in 1913. He was commissioned in the Army Field Artillery Reserve before accepting an appointment as a Marine…
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Tag: History
Pueblo on the Prairie
Kansas Tourism (This article was updated in November 2021) It’s a Southwest-style ruin where the deer, as well as the squirrels and the beavers, roam. What we know about one of the state’s most…
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A Kansas Staple
(Updated November 3, 2021) Enterprise’s Hoffman Grist Mill offers visitors a glimpse into a historic Kansas industry—turning wheat to flour. If Joe Minick, a Dickinson County native, has his…
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The Original Homes on the Range
Photo courtesy of the Kansas Historical Society Indigenous people’s oral histories and archeological research provide insight into the first Kansas homes Long before Euro-American settlers built…
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Being Native. Being Kansan.
The following sections are from a longer feature "Being Native. Being Kansan." first published in 2016 Five native nations connected to Kansas By Suzanne Heck Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri The…
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A Fort along the Santa Fe Trail
A new permanent exhibition highlights the role and the legacy of a military outpost on the Santa Fe Trail Fort Larned National Historic Site sits amid fields and along a meandering line of trees…
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Allen House
Recognized as one of America’s most gifted 20th-century architects, Frank Lloyd Wright built more than 500 homes, museums, places of worship and office buildings, eight of them included on UNESCO’s…
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Holiday Trees on Display
(Updated: November 2, 2021, original feature from 2019.) Believed to be the Midwest’s largest indoor annual Christmas tree display, the collection of 170 unusual and historic holiday trees returns to…
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Civil War Commemorations
Kansas marks 160 years since the beginning of the deadly conflict One hundred and sixty years ago, the war between Northern and Southern states erupted and overshadowed what was already the…
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Editor's Note: In Search of Elizabeth Polly
“Have you heard the story about...,” is usually how it all begins. A remarkable (often unbelievable) tale that’s passed down through the generations, told around the glow of a crackling campfire to…
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