Colonies

The below compiled bibliographies are related to specific and general information related to the history of colonies in Kansas. All of these sources are available to researchers in the Research Room of the Kansas State Historical Society. The hours of the Research Room can be viewed on our web site. Library books in our collections do not circulate outside the Research Room (unless on microfilm, denoted in this list by "reel" designation) and, therefore, would not be available through interlibrary loan request to researchers. For more information information on these and other materials in our collections, please see our ask a research question page.

Specific Kansas Colonies

• Beecher Bible and Rifle Colony
• Buckeye Colony
• Cedar Vale Communist Colony
• Chicago Colony
• Chicago Workingmen's Colony
• Cimarron Oklahoma Colony
• Empire Colony
• Excelsior Colony
• Freedom Colony
• Geneva Colony
• Hampden Colony
• Illinois Prohibition Colony
• Kentucky Colony
• Little Coney Colony
• Maple Grove Colony
• National Temperance Colony
• Nicodemus Colony
• Northwestern Colony
• Pennsylvania Colony
• Plum Grove Colony
• Scandinavian Colony
• Socialist Colony
• Tennessee Colony
• Wakefield Colony
• Welsh Colony
• Wisconsin Colony

Colonies in General in Kansas

Albertson, Ralph. "A Survey of Mutualistic Communities in America." The Iowa Journal of History and Politics 34 (October 1936): 375-444. (GL 977.706/Io9/V. 34/no. 4).

Dick, Everett. "Colonies and Colonizing Agencies." The Sod House Frontier, 1854-1890. Lincoln, NE: Johnsen Publishing Co., 1954. (K978.1/D55).

Douglas, Donald M. "Forgotten Zions: Jewish Agricultural Colonies in Kansas in the 1880s." Kansas History 16 (Summer 1993): 108-119. (SP 906/K13q/V. 16/no. 2).

Harris, L. David. Sod Jerusalems: Jewish Agricultural Communities in Frontier Kansas. Topeka, KS: Author, 1984. (K296/H242).

Howes, Cecil. "The Birth of a State." Kansas Teacher 51 (April 1943): 30-32. (K370.1/K13/V. 51/no. 8).

Kellogg, R.S. "An Interesting Experiment: The Salvation Army Colony of Amity." The Jayhawker 2 (Jan. 15, 1904): 100-101. (SP 630.7/Q/J33/V. 2/no. 4).

Miller, Wallace E. The Peopling of Kansas. Columbus, OH: Fred J. Heer Press, 1906. (Reel: LM 227).

Miner, H. Craig. "Colonists." West of Wichita: Settling the High Plains of Kansas, 1865-1890. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1986. (K978.1/M662/pp. 67-79).

N.A. "An Iowa Colony that Came to Woodson County, 1898." In the Beginning 45 (January 1979): 10-13. (K978.1/-W85/W85/V. 12/no. 45).

N.A. "Colonies Kansas has Harbored: Tragic History of Most of Them." Wichita Eagle. Aug. 12, 1906. [1 p.]. (Reel: W1156).

Peacock, Barbara. "Riponites Create Kansas Commission." Prairiesta: Review of Russell County History, 1871-1981. Russell, KS: Prairiesta, 1981. (K978.1/-R91/P884/1981/pp. 30-31).

Pollock, Harry R. "Colonies in Ellis County." A Study of Juvenile Delinquency in Ellis County, 1900-1937. N.p.: Author, n.d. (K978.1/-El5/Pam.v.2/no. 8).

Stoll, Steven. Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2002. (GL 631.45/St68).