A Kansas Portrait

These brief sketches cover people, places and events in Kansas history.

A B C D E F G H I J K L
M N O P Q R S T U V W Y


A

  • Ackert, Dr. James E.
  • Angell, Charlie, Sr.
  • Anthony, Susan B.
  • Army City
  • Aviation, Futile Experiments in Kansas


    • Portrait of John R. Brinkley by Kansas artist Herschel Logan.

    B

  • Battle of Arickaree
  • Beech, Walter H.
  • Beech, Walter H. and Olive Ann
  • Beecher Bibles
  • Big Brutus
  • Blizzard of 1886
  • Borglum, Gutzom
  • Bosin, Blackbear
  • Brewer, David J.
  • Brinkley, John R. "Doc"
  • Brooks, Gwendolyn
  • Brown, Henry
  • Brown, John
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Buffalo Soldiers
  • Burch, Rousseau Angelus
  • Burnett, Abraham
  • Butler, Pardee


    • C

  • Capper, Arthur
  • Carver, George Washington
  • Cedar Crest
  • Cessna, Clyde
  • Chase County Courthouse
  • Cholera
  • Christmas in Kansas
  • Christmas Past
  • Chrysler, Walter P.
  • Coal Strike
  • Coleman, W. C.
  • Corbett, Boston
  • Country Schools
  • County Fairs
  • County Fights
  • Crawford, Nelson Antrim
  • Crumbine, Dr. Samuel
  • Cuartelejo, El
  • Cunningham, Glenn
  • Curry, John Steuart
  • Curtis, Charles


    • D

  • Dinsmoor, Samuel P.
  • Dodge City
  • Dodge City Cowboy Band
  • Douglas, AaronMilton Eisenhower
  • Dust Bowl Days in Kansas


    • E

  • Earhart, Amelia
  • Effigy Head
  • Eisenhower, Dwight David
  • Eisenhower, Milton
  • Engle, Joe
  • Exaggerated Postcards


    • F

  • Fazel, Reverend John
  • First Kansas Colored Infantry
  • First Territorial Capitol
  • Fort de Cavagnial
  • Funston, Fredrick


    • G

  • Gage, Robert Merrell
  • Gardner, Alexander
  • Gas Well
  • Good Roads Movement
  • Grasshopper Plague of 1874
  • Gray, Georgia Neese Clark
  • Great White Buffalo
  • Grisnik, Marijana


    • H

  • Halbe, L. W.
  • Haldeman-Julius, Marcet and Emanuel
  • Harbord, James G.
  • Harman, Moses
  • Harvey, Fred
  • Hertzler, Arthur Emanuel
  • Hibbs, Ben
  • Hockaday, F. W. "Woody"
  • Hughes, Langston
  • Hyer Boot Company


    • I

  • Ingalls, John J.
  • Inge, William


    • J

  • Jardine, William
  • Jerman, Ed C.
  • Johnson, Osa
  • Johnson, Walter "Big Train"
  • Johnston, William Agnew and Lucy Browne
  • Jones, Charles Jesse "Buffalo"


    • K

  • Kansas Astronauts
  • Kansas Department of Agriculture
  • Kansas Flag
  • Kansas Highway Patrol
  • Kansas National Forest
  • Kansas Petroglyphs
  • Kansas State Capitol
  • Kansas 34th Star
  • Kansas Turnpike
  • Kansas' First Newspaper
  • Kelly, Emmett
  • Kenton, Stan


    • L

  • Landon, Alfred M.
  • Lease, Mary Elizabeth
  • Lewis and Clark in Kansas
  • Lieurance, Thurlow
  • Longren, Albin K.


    • Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy

    M

  • McCarter, Margaret Hill
  • McCarthy, Kathryn O'Loughlin
  • McCuish, John B.
  • Maneval, Rex
  • Masterson, William B.
  • Mathewson, William E.
  • Menninger Clinic
  • Mercí Train
  • Miller, Solomon


    • N

  • Naismith, James
  • Nation, Carry
  • Nicodemus
  • Norman No. 1


    • O

  • Oregon Trail


    • P

  • Parks, Gordon
  • Patent Medicines
  • Penokee Figure
  • Pitt, Nancy Louise
  • Pitts, Riley Leroy
  • Pleasant Valley Gang
  • Pony Express
  • Populist Party


    • Q

  • Quantrill, William Clarke


    • R

  • Reader, Samuel J.
  • Reid, Albert T.
  • Ripley, John
  • Rogers, General Bernard
  • Romaine, "Painless"
  • Runnymede
  • Runyon, Damon
  • Rural Electrification
  • Ryun, Jim


    • S

  • Sandzen, Birger
  • Santa Fe Railroad
  • Santa Fe Trail
  • Seaton, Fred
  • Seventh U.S. Cavalry
  • Sheldon, Charles Monroe
  • Silkville
  • Sinclair, Henry Ford
  • Singleton, Benjamin "Pap"
  • Smith Automobile Company
  • Smith, Jedediah
  • Soule's Folly
  • Stafford, Terry
  • Steamboating
  • Stout, Rex
  • Sutherland, Earl


    • T

  • Tombaugh, Clyde
  • Twelve Mile Creek


    • U

  • Udall Tornado
  • Udden Chain Mail
  • Underwood, Elmer, and Underwood, Bert
  • Uniontown
  • University of Kansas' First Basketball Game


    • William Allen White

    V

  • Volga-German Immigrants


    • W

  • Ware, Eugene Fitch
  • Western Kansas Gold
  • White, William Allen
  • Willard, Jess
  • Wilson, Thomas Bayne
  • Wind Wagons
  • Wizard of Oz, The
  • Woodring, Harry
  • Wooster, Lorraine Elizabeth


    • Y

    The Kansas Portraits were prepared with the assistance of volunteer Nicolette Wayant.
     
     
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