Cultural-General


General

Carman, J. Neale. "The Foreign Mark on Kansas." Central Mississippi Valley American Studies Association Journal 2 (Fall 1961): 66-79.

Fitzgerald, Daniel C. "'We Are All in This Together'--Immigrants in the Oil and Mining Towns of Southern Kansas, 1890-1920." Kansas History 10 (Spring 1987): 17.

Hollon, W. Eugene. Frontier Violence: Another Look. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Concludes that a substantial part of frontier violence was directed against minorities.

Luebke, Frederick. "Ethnic Settlement on the Great Plains." Western Historical Quarterly 8 (October 1977): 405-430. Kansas settlers and others in the region.

Napier, Rita G., editor. A History of the Peoples of Kansas. Lawrence: Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1985. Scholarly essays of ethnic and minority group experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Shortridge, James R. Peopling the Plains: Who Settled Where in Frontier Kansas. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. With a large number of maps and census data, the author provides an exceptional cultural geography detailing the origins and thus the ethnic diversity of 19th and early 20th century settlers.

Taylor, Loren L. Ethnic History of Wyandotte County. Kansas City, Kans.: Kansas City Ethnic Council, 1993.


French

Fouquet, Leon Charles, edited by Rosalie Fouquet Davis and Mathilde Fouquet Ruggles. Hurrah for My New Free Country. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. Fouquet arrived in Kansas from France in 1868.

Pantle, Alberta. "History of the French-Speaking Settlement in the Cottonwood Valley." Kansas Historical Quarterly 19 (February 1951): 12-49; and, Part two (19:174-206).


French-Canadian

McQuillan, David Aiden. Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment on the Kansas Prairies, 1875-1925. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. A study of Swedish, Mennonite, and French-Canadian settlers.


Lebanese

Kuhel, Pat. "Lebanese Immigrants in Southeast Kansas." Heritage of the Great Plains 17 (Fall 1984): 17-30.


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