Kansas History: An Annotated Bibliography

"Kansas At War: Part 1, The Call To Arms." Kansas History 15 (Spring 1992): 36-43. Subsequent three parts, "A Common Cause," "`At Ease'," and "Over There," in 15:116-125, 180-191, 254-263. Photographic essays review the early part of World War II in Kansas, home front activities of Kansas servicemen and civilians, and some of the trials of overseas duty. 1751.1-4

Kansas Kaleidoscope, It's About Time. 1 (September 1997). This periodical from the Kansas State Historical Society focuses on a different historical themes each issue and is designed for use in grade school classrooms. 3337.1

Kaplan, Mark, and Jim McCrary. In Plain View: A Photo/Document of Old East Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas. Lawrence, Kans.: Eastside Books, 1996. Historic quotations, brief photo captions, and ninety-three black and white photographs are used to depict the diversity of architectural styles that exist today in this oldest of Lawrence's residential neighborhoods. 3724.1

Kastens, Terry Lee. "Evaluation of Econometric Forecasting of Kansas City Wheat Futures Prices." Doc. diss., Kansas State University, 1995. 2406.1

Katz, Milton S., and Susan B. Tucker. "A Pioneer in Civil Rights: Esther Brown and the South Park Desegregation Case of 1948." Kansas History 18 (Winter 1995/1996): 234-247. Brown, a social activist who was later instrumental in the Brown v. Board case, played a lead role in the successful fight to get this Kansas City area school system to end illegal segragation. 2927.1

Kay, Richard, and Mary Ann Wortman. History of Cowley County, Kansas. Volume 1 -- The Beginning. Arkansas City, Kans.: The Arkansas City Historical Society, with Cowley County Historical Society and Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum, 1996. Most of the volume is devoted to biographical sketches of various "Pioneers," some of who arrived as early as 1869. 3663.1

Keel, William D. "The German Heritage of Kansas: An Introduction." Heritage of the Great Plains. 27 (Summer 1994): 5-8. This special issue contains article by Christopher Johnson, "Russian Loan Words in Ellis County Volga German Dialects," John McCabe-Juhnke, "Enacting Gemeinde in the Language and Style of Swiss Volhynian Mennonite Storytelling," William D. Keel, "From the Netherlands to Kansas: Mennonite Low German," and Gabriele Lunte," The German Bohemian Cultural and Linguistic Heritage of the Catholic Bucovinians in Ellis, Kansas." 1445.1

Kellow, Margaret M. R. "`For the Sake of Suffering Kansas': Lydia Maria Child, Gender, and the Politics of the 1850s." Journal of Women's History 5 (Fall 1993): 32-49. Child, a prominent Massachusetts novelist and editor, wrote "The Kansas Emigrant," a sentimental, melodramatic short story, to elicit national repentance, votes for the Republican Party, and as "a call for the admission of women to public life." 570.1

Kennedy, W. J. D. On the Plains with Custer and Hancock: The Journal of Isaac Coates, Army Surgeon. Boulder, Colo.: Johnson Books, 1997. An interesting account of General Winfield Scott Hancock's ill-fated 1867 expedition by an army surgeon; Kennedy also includes a chapter on George A. Custer's court martial of that year. 1278.1

Kindscher, Kelly, with drawing by William S. Whitney. Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. Medicinal plants used by Plains Indians. 187.1

King, Charles R. Children's Health in America: A History. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993. National in scope and spanning three centuries, this fascinating study contains few specific Kansas references but much relevant material. 3060.1

King, Charles R. "The Frontier Medical Community of Leavenworth, Kansas." Great Plains Quarterly 16 (Summer 1996): 157-167. King looks at "the important role that physicians and other health providers played in community building" and the professionalization of the field of medicine in this important late-nineteenth century, northeast Kansas town. 3059.1

King, Charles R. "Nineteenth-Century Gentleman, Twentieth-Century Physician: Don Carlos Guffey." Kansas History 15 (Spring 1992): 56-71. Career of the first chairman of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. 3060.2

King, Charles R. "Physician to Body and Soul: Jotham Meeker--Kansas Missionary." Kansas History 17 (Winter 1994-1995): 262-273. King finds that despite a lack of professional training Meeker, who ministered to the Shawnees and the Ottawas in the 1840s and 1850s, was a successful medical practitioner, in the context of his times. 255.1

King, Marsha K. "Guardians of the Plains: Military Forts in Kansas." Kansas Heritage 4 (Winter 1996): 4-8. A brief look at the nine most significant Kansas posts: Forts Leavenworth (1827), Scott (1842), Riley (1853), Larned (1859), Harker (1864), Zarah (1864), Dodge (1865), Wallace (1865), and Hays (1865). 506.1

Klarman, Michael J. "How the Brown Decision Changed Race Relations: The Backlash Thesis." Journal of American History 81 (June 1994): 81-118. Concentrates on the southern response to the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision and its "indirect contribution to racial change" by focusing "on the backlash against Brown" and the resulting crystallization of "southern resistance to racial change." 3023.1

Knapp, Timothy Dale. "Rust in the Wheat Belt: The Social Impact of Industrial Decline in a Rural Kansas Community." Doc. diss., University of Kansas, 1991. Focus is on Pittsburg and its historical trends. 2372.1

Knoblock, Frieda Elizabeth. "The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture, Colonization, and the American West." Vol. I and II. Doc. diss., University of Minnesota, 1994. 2345.1

Kollmorgen, Walter M. "The Woodsman's Assault on the Domain of the Cattlemen." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 59 (June 1969): 215-239. An "appropriate system of grazing burst northward across the Plains following the Civil War." 2194.1

Korner, Barbara O. "Philippine Duchesne: A Model of Action." Missouri Historical Review 86 (July 1992): 341-362. Recently named a saint, Mother Philippine was a long-time missionary among the Indians and, in 1841 at the age of seventy-two, was briefly at the Pottawatomie Sugar Creek Mission. 255.1

Krause, Keith. Impact of Water on the Development of Topeka--A History. Topeka: Topeka-Shawnee County Flood Control and Conservation Association, 1993. Total damage from all floods to Topeka has exceeded $400 million. 4321.1

Krogh, A. Lynne. "Water Right Adjudications in the Western States: Procedures, Constitutionality, Problems & Solutions." Land and Water Law Review 30 (no. 1, 1995): 9-56. Kansas, with Nebraska and Wyoming, is mentioned among the "primarily administrative" states; other types of water right adjudication discussed are judicial and integrated. 2262.1

Kromm, David E., and Stephen E. White, editors. Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. Eleven authors analyze the Ogallala Aquifer, its use through technology, its legal context, future prospects, and problems. 2262.2

Kvasnicka, Robert M., compiler. The Trans-Mississippi West, 1804-1912. Part 1: A Guide to the Records of the Department of State for the Territorial Period. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1993. Catalogues parts of five record groups and contains five references to specific Kansas material, including the citation for a collection of "State constitutions and papers" which is said to include a "certified" copy of Kansas' Wyandotte Constitution of 1859. 643.1

Kvasnicka, Robert M., compiler. The Trans-Mississippi West, 1804-1912. Part 2: A Guide to the Records of the Department of Justice for the Territorial Period. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1994. 643.2

Kvasnicka, Robert M., compiler. The Trans-Mississippi West, 1804-1912. Part 3: A Guide to the Records of the Department of Agriculture for the Territorial Period. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1996. 643.3

Lacalle, Jose Maria. "Wild Bill Hickok." Historia (Madrid), 16 (August 1996): 119-125. In Spanish. 2168.1

Lai, Yu-Timg. "William Inge: The Voice of Small-Town America." Master's thesis, California State University, Torrance, 1991. Describes Inge as a product of "his own mentally tormented life" who "mirrors on the stage that which is a basic substance of us all." 2768.1

Lalande, Jeff. "A `Little Kansas' in Southern Oregon: The Course and Character of Populism in Jackson County, 1890-1900." Pacific Historical Review 63 (May 1994): 149-176. 995.1

Lamb, F. Bruce, compiler. The Wild Bunch: A Selected Critical Annotated Bibliography of the Literature. Worland, Wyo.: High Plains Publishing, 1993. About noted outlaw gangs. 2120.1

Lambert, Don. The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton. Waco, Tex.: WRS Publishing, 1996. Contains color reproductions of more than 100 of Layton's contour drawings. 2808.1

Lambertson, John Mark. "Last Writes: History on Headstones." Kansas Heritage 2 (Spring 1994): 11-13. An anecdotal look at burial customs, especially as pertains to tombstone design and inscription, in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Kansas. 2878.1

Lane, Gia. "`The Lick that St. John Got': Prohibition, Republican Party Politics, and the Press in Ellis County, Kansas, 1878-1882." Heritage of the Great Plains 29 (Spring/Summer 1996): 5-16. 3766.1

Lang, Robert E., Deborah Epstein Popper and Frank J. Popper. "`Progress of the Nation': The Settlement History of the Enduring American Frontier." Western Historical Quarterly 26 (Autumn 1995): 289-307. The authors analyze "Progress of the Nation," a census report that served as the basis for Frederick Jackson Turner's seminal 1893 essay, as a primary source and use census data through 1990 to reach the conclusion that "once the frontier was mainly a process, but it has become primarily a place." 1799.1

Langellier, John P. "'Knowing No Fear': Buffalo Soldiers of the American West." Kansas Heritage 5 (Autumn 1997): 4-8. Both the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry saw duty in Kansas. 1280.2

Langellier, John P. Men A-Marching: The African American Soldier in the West, 1866-1896. Springfield, Pa.: Steven Wright Publishing, 1995. A brief, large format book written for a general audience, Men A-Marching contains much useful information and many fine historic photographs. 1280.1

Larsen, Lawrence H. Federal Justice in Western Missouri: The Judges, The Cases, The Times. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994. 3427.1

Larsen, Lawrence H., and Nancy J. Hulston. The University of Kansas Medical Center: A Pictorial History. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. "Over a period of nearly one hundred years and from humble beginnings, the University of Kansas Medical Center has grown into a large and significant medical institution," the history of which is chronicled here with 385 black-and-white photographs. 2986.1

Larsson, Evert A. "Lawrence to Kansas City: Reminiscences, 1931-1934." Swedish-American Historical Quarterly 43 (October 1992): 221-232. Fourth in a series of memoirs. 3724.1

Launius, Roger D. "End of a 40-Year War; Demobilization in the West Coast Aerospace Industry after the Cold War." Journal of the West 36 (July 1997): 85-96. Uses charts to describe extent of aircraft production in the west. 2433.1

Laurie, Clayton D. "Filling the Breach: Military Aid to the Civil Power in the Trans-Mississippi West." Western Historical Quarterly 25 (Summer 1994): 149-162. Examines the "civil duties" exercised by the U.S. Army or the use of soldiers to evict squatters, arrest bandits, respond to various other requests for assistance from public officials, and generally to bolster "civilian law enforcement authorities on the frontier." 1502.1

Leckie, Shirley A. Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. A scholarly comprehensive treatment of the life of the wife and widow of George A. Custer with much attention to her role as myth maker. 1566.1

Lee, Thomas R. Rock Island Westward, Vol. One. Manhattan, Kans.: Ag Press, 1992. Features Clay Center branch line with excellent pictures. 2596.1

Lee, Wayne C. Deadly Days in Kansas. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1997. This generously illustrated, large-format volume contains over five dozen historical vignettes; many are familiar tales, such as the Pottawatomie Massacre, the Bloody Benders, and the Dalton Gang; others are more obscure: the Starvation Trail, the Ladore tragedy, the Kipple murder, the Corley murder, the Dewey-Berry war, and the story of the first Topeka policeman killed, for example. 3319.1

Leigh, Sharon. "Homesteaders on the Frontier: Initial White Settlers of Jewell County, Kansas, 1862-1890." Doc. diss., Indiana University, 1995. 3898.1

Leiker, James N. "Black Soldiers at Fort Hays, Kansas, 1867-1869: A Study in Civilian and Military Violence." Great Plains Quarterly 17 (Winter 1997): 3-17. Leiker concludes that the Buffalo Soldiers' experience in Hays City reveals that "their active involvement in a local cycle of hatred obscured whatever achievements whites might have recognized and intensified racist paranoia." 506.1

Leiker, James N. "The Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Hays." Master's thesis, Fort Hays State University, 1992. A social history of the black troopers who played a significant role on Kansas' Indian frontier. 506.2

Leiker, James N. "Voices From a Disease Frontier: Kansas and Cholera, 1867." Kansas History 17 (Winter 1994-1995): 236-254. Leiker analyzes the epidemic in the context of the "frontier" conditions that facilitated its spread. 1281.1

Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America New York : A.A. Knopf, 1991. Concentrates on the twentieth-century rural to urban migration of African Americans. 1404.1

Lent, Laura L. "Only Pennies in their Pockets: The Settlement of Jews in Wichita, 1869-1933." Master's

thesis, Wichita State University, 1990. 1502.1

Leslie, Edward E. The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders. New York: Random House, 1996. This 534-page tome is a comprehensive and well-researched account of the life and activities of the infamous guerrilla leader who Leslie portrays as a product of his times. 1137.1

Levy, David. Clyde Tombaugh: Discoverer of the Planet Pluto. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991. Kansas-born Tombaugh, a self-taught astronomer, migrated to the Lowell Observatory in northern Arizona, where at age 24 he discovered Pluto. Based on written and oral sources of Tombaugh's life. 3038.1

Limerick, Patricia Nelson, Clyde A. Milner II, and Charles E. Rankin, eds. Trails: Toward a New Western History. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. Contributions from various "new generation" historians, including Donald Worster, "Beyond the Agrarian Myth," and Elliott West, "A Longer, Grimmer, but More Interesting Story." 3393.1

Lincoln, John. Rich Grass and Sweet Water: Ranch Life with the Koch Matador Cattle Company. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1989. The author, retired president of the Matador, discusses the creation and operation of this immense ranching enterprise with holdings in Kansas, Texas, Montana, and Wyoming; patriarch of Wichita's premier family-run corporation, Koch Industries, Fred C. Koch was especially fond of his cattle kingdom. 2481.1

Lindquist, Emory. Birger Sandzen: An Illustrated Biography. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. Combines biography with selections of this Bethany College artist's work, including forty-nine color plates. 2809.1

Littrell, J. Harvey. Riley Country, Kansas, Officials and Their Families, 1855-1900: An Historical and Genealogical Account. Manhattan, Kans.: Riley County Historical Society, 1996. Genealogical study of 162 elected and appointed county officials with mention of their families. 4244.1

Loewen, Royden. Family, Church, and Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old and the New Worlds, 1850-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. From his University of Manitoba dissertation (1990) with a slightly different subtitle; he focuses on the Mennonite "Kleine Gemeinde" who settled in 1874 near present Steinbach, Manitoba, and Jansen, Nebraska. 1476.1

Lookingbill, Brad Darren. "Desert Myth: The Great Plains Environment and Depression America." Doc. diss., University of Toledo, 1995. 2231.2

Lookingbill, Brad. "`A God-Forsaken Place': Folk Eschatology and the Dust Bowl." Great Plains Quarterly 14 (Fall 1994): 273-286. A look at attitudes toward the drought in the heart of the Dust Bowl--the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles and southwestern Kansas. 2231.1

Loomis, Burdett A. Time, Politics, and Policies: A Legislative Year. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. An analysis of a year (May 1988 to May 1989) in the life of the Kansas legislature, with reference to long-term trends. 1639.1

Loomis, F. A, editor. As Long As Life: The Memoirs of a Frontier Woman Physician, Mary Canaga Rowland -- 1873-1966. Seattle, Wash.: Storm Peak Press, 1994. Born in Red Willow, Nebraska, Rowland lived in Herndon, Rawlins County, at the turn of the century and practiced medicine in Topeka from 1905-1909. 3061.1

Loosle, Byron Norm. "Social Interaction Among the Late Plains Village Populations in the Central Plains." Doc. diss., University of Kansas, 1991. Concentrates on the Little River focus of Central Kansas. 46.1

Lovett, Christopher. "`Dear, I'll Be Back in a Year': The Mobilization of the Thirty-Fifth Infantry Division in 1940." Kansas History 17 (Summer 1994): 90-107. Argues that the U.S. army, and Kansas guardsmen, learned much of value during this period of active service just prior to America's entry into the Second World War. 1753.1

Lowe, Denise, with Flint Hills photography by George Kren. Touching the Sky. Lawrence, Kans.: Penthe Publishing, 1994. A series of "calm, clear-eyed essays" which "takes you on a journey into the history and soul of Kansas and the Great Plains." 3366.1

Lowitt, Richard, editor. Politics in the Postwar American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. A collection of 19 essays covering a variety of political topics from Alaska to Texas; of most interest to the Kansas historian is "Kansas and Water: Survival in the Heartland" by James E. Sherow and Homer E. Socolofsky. 1783.1

Lowitt, Richard, and Judith Fabry, editors. Henry A. Wallace's Irrigation Frontier: On the Trail of the Corn Belt Farmer, 1909. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. A collection of essays written by the young Henry Wallace (later FDR's secretary of agriculture and vice president) for publication in the family's Iowa farm journal--Wallace's Farmer; Wallace's "tour of the principal irrigation projects" begins on July 2, 1909, with a description of sugar beet and alfalfa production near Garden City, Kansas. 2262.1

McCauley, James R., John R. Charlton, and Rex C. Buchanan. "Portraits of Change: Rephotographing the Chalk Monuments of Western Kansas." Kansas History 15 (Winter 1992/93): 220-239.

Compares pictures of the 1890s with some taken in 1991. 24.1

Macfarland, P. Allen. "The Effect of Topography Relief and Hydrostratigraphy on the Upper Part of the Regional Ground-Water Flow System in Southeastern Colorado and Western and Central Kansas, With Emphasis on the Dakota Aquifer." Doc. diss., University of Kansas, 1993. Covers region of Arkansas, Saline, and Smoky Hill rivers. 2262.1

McChristian, Douglas. The U.S. Army in the West, 1870-1880: Uniforms, Weapons, and Equipment. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. The author describes army uniforms, equipment, and small arms during the period of important campaigns against remaining Indian tribes. 1284.1

McClure, Arthur F., and C. David Rice. Bibliographical Guide to the Works of William Inge (1913-1973). Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991. A revised and updated version of McClure's 1982 Inge bibliography. 2770.1

McConnell, Curt. Great Cars of the Great Plains. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. The author devotes one chapter to each of the five early auto makers of the upper Midwest: Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri; Topeka's Great Smith--"The World's Greatest $2,500 Car"--which originated in 1902, is the Kansas example. 2523.1

McConnell, Judith L. "Kindergarten in Kansas: A View from the Beginning." Journal of Education 177 (no. 3, 1995): 9-22. 2932.1

McCormick, Fannie. A Kansas Farm, or the Promised Land. New York: J. B. Alden, 1892. 2346.1

McCormick, Peter J. "The 1992 Secession Movement in Southwest Kansas." Great Plains Quarterly 15 (Fall 1995): 247-258. Although an 1892 proposal for the state of West Kansas is included for historical background, the focus here is the movement of 1992, a reaction of anti-tax leaders in nine southwestern counties to the statewide levy for public schools. 1691.1

McCusker, Kristine M. "`The Forgotten Years' of America's Civil Rights Movement: The University of Kansas, 1939-1961." Master's thesis, University of Kansas, 1993. 2988.1

McCusker, Kristine M. "`The Forgotten Years' of America's Civil Rights Movement: Wartime Protests at the University of Kansas, 1939-1945." Kansas History 17 (Spring 1994): 26-37. Inspired by the wartime rhetoric of A. Phillip Randolph and others, black and white students united in opposition to discriminatory policies on the university's Lawrence campus. 2988.2

McInnes, Robert A. "Chautauqua: 'The Most American Thing in America." Kansas Heritage 5 (Autumn 1997): 9-13. Focuses on the diverse entertainment offered by the traveling tent Chautauquas of the early twentieth century. 2887.1

McInnes, Robert A., editor. "`I Spent Almost Two Years in the Insane Asylum': An Anonymous Kansan Speaks Out." Kansas History 18 (Summer 1995): 86-99. The patient essay, found in the papers of Governor Frank Carlson, was written in the mid-1940s when conditions at the Topeka state hospital were abysmal. 3062.1

McIntosh, C. Barron. "Use and Abuse of the Timber Culture Act." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 65 (September 1975): 347-362. 1985.1

McIsaac, Gregory, and William R. Edwards, editors. Sustainable Agriculture in the American Midwest: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Contains material on Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and areas east of the Mississippi River. 2347.1

McKanna, Clare V., Jr. Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920. Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, 1997. Focusing on Colorado, Nebraska and Arizona, McKanna argues that, contrary to what has become the traditional interpretation, "guns routinely could and did blaze over anything from love trysts to vendettas to too much foam on the beer." 2123.1

McKearney, Scott J., compiler. A Rural Studies Bibliography, Second Edition. Washington, D.C. and Beltsville, Md.: National Agricultural Library, 1994. An annotated listing of 215 items; the first edition was published in 1991. 2347.1

McKinney, Richard Lynn. "A Policy Analysis of Higher Education Financing Practices in the State of Kansas, 1970-1994." Doc. diss., University of Kansas, 1994. 2932.1

McMath, Robert C., Jr. American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898. New York: Hill and Wang, 1992. A brief summary that emphasizes the social roots of the movement (Farmers' Alliance) that made it more than a political party. 1009.1

McNeil, Virginia Skilling. "Margaret Thompson Skilling, Pioneer Legacy." Journal of the West 33 (October 1994): 64-74. Margaret Thompson Skilling (1834-1899) went to Salt Creek Township, Mitchell County, from Illinois in 1874, accompanied by her husband Joseph and her family. They moved to southern California in 1885. The article was written by her great granddaughter who used personal diaries, 200 letters, and other memorabilia for her information. 4067.1

Madison, James H., editor. Wendell Willkie: Hoosier Internationist. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. A biography with concentration on U.S. politics and government, 1933-45; includes bibliography. 1603.1

Mahin, Helen Ogden, compiler. The Editor and His People: Editorials of William Allen White. New York: Macmillan Co., 1924. With introduction and footnotes by William Allen White. 1933.1

Maki, Thomas N. Men of Franklin: Franklin Citizens in the Kansas Free-State Conflict: Their Lives and Times. Hopedale, Mass.: Birch Hill Associates, 1996. Focuses on three men--Amory Hunting, Hertford P. Leonard, and Lewis R. Whittaker--from Franklin, Massachusetts, who removed to territorial Kansas. 706.1

Malott, Deane W. On Growing Up in Abilene Kansas: 1898-1916. Abilene, KS: Dickinson County Historical Society, 1992. Reminiscences at the age of 93 from a former chancellor of the University of Kansas. 3698.1

Marshall, James Edward. "Historical Development of Special Education in Kansas: An Overview." Doc. diss., University of Kansas, 1994. 2989.1

Marszalek, John F. Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order. New York: The Free Press, 1992. A "scholarly, comprehensive, and perceptive" biography of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman containing one chapter on "Indian Country Chaos"; Sherman, commander of the Military Division of the Missouri during the high-tide of the Kansas' greatest Indian-white conflict, "viewed them [Native Americans] as stubborn children who needed disciplining." 1282.1

Martin, James Vaughn. "Factors Influencing Native American Persistence and Graduation at a Two-Year Institution of Higher Education." Doc. diss., Kansas State University, 1993. 2990.1

Marvin, Anne M. "`A Grave-Yard of Hopes': Irrigation and Boosterism in Southwest Kansas, 1880-1890." Kansas History 18 (Spring 1996): 36-51. The author concentrates on the political implications of ditch irrigation projects as they related to county seat contests and town promotion. 2263.1

Marvin, Anne. "`The Spirit of Kansas' Goes to the Fair." Kansas Heritage 1 (Summer 1993): 18-22. A look at the painting by Mary Pillsbury Weston that graced the Kansas Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. 2809.1

Mason, Harry Morgan, with forward by Wes Jackson. Life on the Dry Line: Working the Land, 1902-1944. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Publishing, 1992. A memoir of "life and evolution on the vast plains of Kansas" reflecting on the agricultural revolution and small town life in WaKeeney, Trego County. 4411.1

Maurer, Evan M., editor. Visions of the People: A Pictorial History of the Plains Indians. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992. Exhibition of Plains Indian art and material culture. 188.1

May, Dean L. Three Frontiers: Family, Land and Society in the American West. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 1366.1

May, Lowell A. Camp Concordia: German POWs in the Midwest. Manhattan, Kans.: Sunflower University Press, 1995. World War II camp located just north of Concordia, Cloud County, Kansas. 1753.1

May, Stephen. Footloose on the Santa Fe Trail. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1993. Concentrating on the Colorado and New Mexican portions of the trail, May juxtaposes his personal hiking experiences with the historical record of 1846. 428.2

Meerse, David E. "Buchannan, The Patronage, and the Lecompton Constitution: A Case Study." Civil War History 41 (December 1995): 291-312. Challenging Roy Nichols and Kenneth Stampp, among others, Meerse favorably reevaluates the president's actions in relationship to "the notorious Lecompton constitution." 709.1

Mendoza, Valerie M. "They Came to Kansas: Searching for a Better Life." Kansas Quarterly 25 (no. 2, 1994): 97-106. A look at the immigrants from rural Mexico in the early 20th century, with attention to gender and family issues. 1504.1

"Mennonites and Alternative Service in World War II." Mennonite Quarterly Review 66 (October 1992): 451-627. Whole issue devoted to this topic with authors touching on Kansas who include Wesley J. Prieb, Keith L. Sprunger, John D. Thiesen, Rachel Waltner Goossen, and Paul Toews. 1754.1

Meredith, Howard. Dancing on Common Ground: Tribal Cultures and Alliances on the Southern Plains. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. An examination of alliances of three centuries through the use of oral interviews, tribal archives, and federal government documents. 188.1

Merrill, Irving. "The Civil War in the West: The 1864 Trail Season." Overland Journal 9 (Winter 1991): 15-27. Focuses on that theater in 1864, U. S. Grant's western strategy, and the leadership provided by Gen. Samuel R. Curtis and Colonel George Wright. 1206.1

Michaelis, Patricia A. "Windows to Yesterday: The Journal of the Kansas State Historical Society." Kansas History 18 (Autumn 1995): 208-221. The author examines changes in Kansas historiography through a look at articles published in the Society's regular publications since 1914. 2887.1

Miesner, William H. "The First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Civil War." Oklahoma State Historical Review 2 (Spring 1981): 13-26. Recruited during August and September 1862, the First's engagement at Island Mound, Missouri, on October 28-29 of that year was the first for black troops in the Civil War. 1206.1

Miles, Lisa. "A Land of Her Own: Independent Women Homesteaders in Lyon and Coffey Counties, Kansas 1860-1870." Masters thesis, Emporia State University, 1993. 3157.1

Miles, Ray. "King of the Wildcatters": The Life and Times of Tom Slick, 1883-1930. College Station: Texas A & M Press, 1996. Several failures in the Kansas oil fields of the early 20th century gave rise to the monikers "Dry Hole Slick" and "Mad Tom Slick," before Slick moved to Oklahoma were he experienced good times and bad. 2483.1

Miller, Allan R. Yankee on the Prairie: Howard R. Barnard of Kansas--Pioneer Educator. Manhattan, Kans.: Sunflower University Press, 1995. Born in New York City in 1863, Barnard (1863-1948) removed to Kansas in the early 1880s and in 1906 founded "an innovative experimental school he call Entre Nous" near McCracken, Rush County. 2935.1

Miller, Benjamin S. Ranch Life in Southern Kansas and the Indian Territory. New York: Fless & Ridge Printing Co., 1896. A 163-page autobiographical account. 4360.1

Miller, Darrel. Life in a Railroad Town: Sketches about the Railroaders, the Farmers and Townspeople, and the Itinerant Characters Who Visited Early Day Downs, Kansas. Downs, Kan. : Cellar Door Pub., 1996. 4151.1

Miller, Darlis, ed. Above a Common Soldier: Frank and Mary Clarke in the American West and Civil War, 1847-1872. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. First published by the University of New Mexico in 1941 as To Form a More Perfect Union (#1337), this volume of letters illuminate the experiences of an English immigrant family in the West; the last half of the volume, covering the years 1863-1872, contain Mary Clarke's letters from Junction City, where she lived after Frank's death in 1862. 1350.1

Miller, Peter. People of the Great Plains. Waterbury, Vt. : Silver Print Press, 1996. Covers the ten Great Plains states using documentary photographs and text, making special mention of Nicodemus, Sun City, and other Kansas communities. 3397.1

Miller, Sally M. From Prairie to Prison: The Life of Social Activist Kate Richards O'Hare. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993. First full-scale biography of an important Kansas and Missouri socialist who was born on a north-central Kansas homestead and, among many other things, found herself doing time in the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1919 for violating the wartime Espionage Act. 2482.1

Miller, Worth Robert. "A Centennial Historiography of American Populism." Kansas History 16 (Spring 1993): 54-69. A general but thorough analysis of the major works and interpretations of this historiographically controversial movement with some emphasis on Kansas materials. 1013.2

Miller, Worth Robert. Oklahoma Populism: A History of the People's Party in Oklahoma Territory. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. From his doc. diss., University of Oklahoma, 1984 (#1013). Origins for this movement and many of the people in it came from south-central Kansas. 1013.1

Miner, Craig. "Civilizing Kansas." Kansas History 17 (Winter 1994-1995): 254-261. An insightful look at the way Kansans see themselves and the way others view Kansas, delivered as a presidential address at the October 1994 annual meeting of the Kansas State Historical Society. 4499.1

Miner, Craig. Garvey, Inc.: Expectations to Equity, 1959-1973. Wichita, Kans.: Marge Page, 1992. R. H. Garvey, the founder of the agri-business and petroleum empire, was killed in a car/train crash June 30, 1959; thus, the focus here is the survival of the "family business" without its dynamic patriarch and the important role of Robert A. Page, Garvey's close personal and financial consultant. 2483.1

Miner, Craig. "`Here Today, Here Tomorrow': G-K Farms in the Dust Bowl." Kansas History 16 (Autumn 1993): 148-165. A study of Ray Garvey's large Thomas County wheat farming operation, managed by John Kriss, and the interest that both Garvey and Kriss had in preserving, rather than exploiting, the productive lands of the High Plains. 2025.1

Miner, Craig. Uncloistered Halls: The Centennial History of Wichita State University. Wichita, Kans.: Wichita State University Endowment Association, 1995. 2990.1

Miner, Craig, editor. The Wichita Reader: A Collection of Writing About a Prairie City. Wichita: Wichita Eagle and Beacon Publishing Co., 1992. Seventy-six pieces, often first person; also includes fiction and poetry. 4296.1

Miner, Craig. Wolf Creek Station: Kansas Gas and Electric in the Nuclear Era. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993. Contrasts the plant near Burlington with other nuclear power plants. Based on documents and published record. 2375.1

Mishkin, Bernard. Rank and Warfare Among the Plains Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. First published in 1940, this Bison Book edition contains a new introduction by University of Oklahoma anthropologist Morris W. Foster and offers a still valuable consideration of three centuries of Plains Indian history, most especially the "extent to which the horse" changed the nature of warfare and "transformed native society." 188.1

Mitchell, Nancy. "Danes in Kansas: Paradise or Disaster?" In Danish Emigration to the U.S.A., edited by Birgit Flemming Larsen and Henning Bender, with translations by Karen Veien. Aalborg, Denmark: Danes Worldwide Archives, 1992, pp. 142-156. A brief survey of a significant, though relatively little studied, group of European settlers that the author describes as an "industrious people who assimilated easily throughout the state." 1460.1

Moline, Brian. "David J. Brewer." In The Supreme Court Justices, Illustrated Biographies, 1789-1993, edited by Clare Cushman. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1993. 1530.1

Mondell, John and J. Trent Alexander. "High School in Transition: Community, School, and Peer Group in Abilene, Kansas, 1939." History of Education Quarterly 37 (Spring 1997): 1-24. 2935.1

Monhollon, Rusty L. "`Away From the Dream': The Roots of Black Power in Lawrence, Kansas, 1960-1975." Master's thesis, University of Kansas, 1994. 3728.1

Monhollon, Rusty L. "Black Power, White Fear: The `Negro Problem' in Lawrence, Kansas, 1960-1970," in Judith Jackson Fosset and Jeffrey A. Tucker, editors. Race Consciousness: Reinterpretations for the New Century. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 3728.2

Monhollon, Rusty L. "Taking the Plunge: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Desegregation in Lawrence, Kansas, 1960." Kansas History 20 (Autumn 1997): 138-159. Monhollon examines grass-roots civil rights activism in Lawrence during the 1950s and 1960s, focusing especially on efforts of the Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy to force the integration of the city's privately owned swimming pool, the Jayhawk Plunge, during the summer of 1960. 3728.3

Monnett, John. The Battle of Beecher Island and the Indian War of 1867-1869. Niwot: University of Colorado Press, 1992. The first in-depth study of the battle's relationship to the overall conflict on the central plains of Kansas and Colorado. 1286.1

Monnett, John H. "A Scout's Perception of Indians at the Battle of Beecher Island: An Essay on Ethnocentrism and the Reminiscences of Sigmund Shlesinger." Montana: Magazine of Western History 43 (Autumn 1993): 32-43. A seventeen-year-old Jewish immigrant from Hungary via New York and Leavenworth, Shlesinger was the youngest of Forsyth's scouts; his detailed account of this frontier experience was published as the 1917 edition of the Beecher Island Annual. 1286.2

Morgan, Ray. Citizen Jerry Cohen: A Man's Life in Kansas City History. Olathe, Kans.: Leathers Publishing Co., 1996. 3917.1

Morris, George L. "Reimagining Kansas: Emmett Dalton, Ron Hansen, and the Great Coffeyville, Kansas Raid." Heritage of the Great Plains 28 (Spring/Summer 1995): 31-39. The Dalton gangs illfated attempt to pull off a double bank robbery in October 1892 is reexamined through the 1979 novel by Ron Hansen, Desperadoes. 2126.1

Morris, Judi. The Harvey Girls: The Women Who Civilized the West. New York: Walker and Company, 1994. A brief, popular account of the women who helped make Fred Harvey's restaurants a success, using historic photos and based on letters and interviews with many former Harvey girls. 2649.1

Muhn, James. "Women and the Homestead Act: Land Department Administration of a Legal Imbroglio, 1863-1934." Western Legal History 7 (Summer/Fall 1994): 283-307. The author looks at the special legal problems resulting from women's Homestead claims; he finds, throughout the West, that women constituted less than 10 percent of the entries before 1900, but "their presence was significant" and their numbers increased substantially after the turn of the century. 1987.1

Mulligan, Maureen Kay Harley. "Common Cares: Women and the Family Farm in the Midwest, 1870-1930." Doc. diss., University of Notre Dame, 1996. 2287.1

Mullis, Tony R. "John Geary, Kansas, and the 1856 National Election." Heritage of the Great Plains 25 (Winter 1992): 13-24. Governor Geary's timely "quelling of violence in `Bleeding Kansas'," although only a temporary pacification, "virtually assured James Buchanan and the Democratic Party success in November." 921.1

Munkres, Robert L. "Four-Footed Pioneers--or a Dog's Life on the Road West." Journal of the West 33 (October 1994): 36-43. Remembrances of dogs on trips west including one account of 1845 along the Kansas River. 485.1

Murray, Orrin McKinley, Sr. The Rise and Fall of Western University. N.p.: Orrin McKinley Murray, Sr., 1960. Written by a member of the first junior class who traced the development of this institution from the 1890s when it was primarily a secondary or industrial school. Located in Kansas City and sponsored by the A.M.E. Church, the school gained state support but closed in 1943. 2952.1

Myers, Harry C. "Banditti on the Santa Fe Trail: The Texas Raid of 1843." Kansas History 19 (Winter 1996/1997): 282-292. A story of murder, intrigue, and a military confrontation between the U.S. Army and a large contingent of Texas troops; much of the story takes place in what became Kansas. 432.1

Nacy, Michelle Joan. "Members of the Regiment: Army Officers' Wives on the Western Frontier, 1865-1890." Doc. diss., Kansas State University, 1995. 1289.1

Nash, Gerald D., and Richard W. Etulain, editors. Researching Western History: Topics in the Twentieth Century. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. Eight contributing scholars cover a variety of areas and issues--economics, political, cultural, environmental, urban, gender, and the mythical--and attempt to facilitate historical inquiry and writing by posing numerous, insightful questions, as it seeks "to stimulate research and writing about a still underdeveloped area of western history, the twentieth-century West." 4499.1

Neel, Susan Rhoades. "A Place of Extremes: Nature, History, and the American West." Western Historical Quarterly 25 (Winter 1994): 489-505. An historiographical essay on the new regionalists' continuing quest to redefine the history of the West with a focus on environmental issues or themes. 3399.1

Nelson, Julie R. "A Subtle Revolution: The Chautauqua Literay and Scientific Circle in Rural Midwestern Towns, 1878-1900." Agricultural History 70 (Fall 1996): 653-671. Mentions Kansas among selected states. 2892.1

Nelson, Paula M. "`Doing Everything'--Women in Small Prairie Towns, 1870-1920." Journal of the West 36 (October 1977): 52-60. Slight Kansas connection and includes four Kansas pictures. 3109.1

Nenninger, Timothy K. "Leavenworth and its Critics: The U.S. Army Command and General Staff School, 1920-1940." Journal of Military History 58 (April 1994): 199-231. 527.1

Neth, Mary C. Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundation of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Neth's study, which focuses on Wisconsin, Iowa, and North Dakota but includes material on Kansas, Missouri and Illinois, contains a wealth of information on early twentieth-century farm life. 3160.1

Nichols, Roger L., and Patrick L. Halley. Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. This paper-back edition of a 1980 publication includes a new preface. See 367

Niles-Beattie, Anita. Pioneers of the Flint Hills: From earliest times to 1900. Hillsboro, Kans.: Hearth Publishing, 1996. Pioneers of the Flint Hills is a collection of sketches on a wide variety of subjects from grasses and limestone to black settlers and country stores, followed by a brief section on each of 16 counties. 1370.1

Noel, Thomas J., Paul F. Mahoney, and Richard E. Stevens. Historical Atlas of Colorado. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. Sixty maps and narration with extensive indexes. 3416.1

Nohe, Camille Ayn. "M. A. and Regina: A True Story of Hoxie, Kansas, 1885-1910." N.p., 1993. Spiral-bound manuscript, KSHS Library. Quoting at length from the Hoxie Sentinel, the author/compiler provides information on her great-grandparents, both early Sheridan County attorneys, and the Kenneth (later Hoxie) community. 4338.1

Novak, Susan S. "Roads from Fear to Freedom: The Kansas Underground Railroad." Kansas Heritage 4 (Autumn 1996): 9-12. 577.1

Noyes, Stanley. Los Comanches: The Horse People, 1751-1845. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. 78.1

Nugent, Walter. Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. Outlines interrelated "processes within three continents," shows the "seven principal `donor' areas in Europe, and identifies the "American receivers." 1504.1

Oakes, Liz. "The Race to the Promised Land." Kansas Heritage 1 (Autumn 1993): 34-38. A brief account of the Cherokee Strip or Outlet run of September 16, 1893, the Oklahoma Territory's biggest and final such land run. 1504.2

O'Brien, Charles A. "The Evolution of Haskell Indian Junior College, 1884-1974." Master's thesis, University of Oklahoma, 1975. 2937.1

O'Brien, Claire. "`With One Mighty Pull': Interracial Town Boosting in Nicodemus, Kansas." Great Plains Quarterly 16 (Spring 1996): 117-130. O'Brien focuses on the "completely interracial town elite" that characterized the town in the late 1880 and "served, through sheer numbers and money, as a temporary buffer" for some five hundred African Americans in the community. 1405.1

O'Brien, Patrick G. "`I Want Everyone to Know the Shame of the State': Henry J. Allen Confronts the Ku Klux Klan, 1921-1923." Kansas History 19 (Summer 1996): 98-111. The author argues that Allen's role in the decline of the Kansas Klan was even more important than the much celebrated 1924 campaign of William Allen White. 1692.1

O'Brien, Patrick G. "Kansas At War: The Home Front, 1941-1945." Kansas History 17 (Spring 1994): 6-25. Part of a special Second World War issue, O'Brien's essay provides an insightful survey of the era. 1756.1

O'Brien, William Patrick. "Independence, Missouri's Trade with Mexico, 1827-1860: A Study in International Consensus and Cooperation." Doc. diss., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1994. 433.1

O'Connor, Patrick J. "The Black Experience and the Blues in 1950s Wichita." Mid-America Folklore 21 (Spring 1993): 1-17. Surveys the growth and development of Wichita's black community and its musical experience; includes many quotations from performers Berry Harris, Charles "Harmonica Chuck" Phillips, Jerry Childers, and Donald Dunn, all "originators of the 1950s Wichita sound, and keepers of the blues." 2792.1

O'Connor, Patrick J. "Vaudeville Venues in Kansas," Journal of the West 32 (January 1993): 46-52. Includes pictures of Emporia's Whitley Opera House, Lawrence's Bowersock Theater, and Wichita's Orpheum Theater. 2893.1

Oliva, Leo E., editor. Confrontation on the Santa Fe Trail: Selected Papers from Santa Fe Trail Association Symposia at La Junta, Colorado, 1993, and at Larned and Great Bend, Kansas, 1995. Woodston, Kans.: Santa Fe Trail Association Publications, 1996. The volume includes contributions by Oliva, Thomas E. Chavez of Santa Fe's Palace of the Governors, William Y. Chalfant, and David K. Clapsaddle, "The Fort Riley-Fort Larned Road: A Phenomenon in the Shift from Trail to Rail." 437.1

Oliva, Leo E., editor. "`A Faithful Account of Everything': Letters from Katie Bowen on the Santa Fe Trail, 1851." Kansas History 19 (Winter 1996/1997): 262-281. The wife of army captain Isaac Bowen, Katie Bowen traveled the trail from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Fort Union, New Mexico; the letters presented here cover mainly the Kansas portion of the trip. 434.1

Oliva, Leo E. Fort Scott: Courage and Conflict on the Border. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1997. Revised edition published as part of new series on Kansas frontier forts, with original cover art by Kansas artist Jerry Thomas; also available, Fort Larned: Guardian of the Santa Fe Trail. and Fort Hays: Keeping Peace on the Plains. Subsequent volumes in this series will cover Forts Wallace, Dodge, Riley, Leavenworth, and Harker. 550.1

Oliva, Leo E. Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest: A Historic Resource Study. Fort Union National Monument, Fort Union, New Mexico. Santa Fe, N.M.: Southwest Cultural Resource Center Professional Papers, no. 41, 1993. Extensive study of Fort Union which was connected via the Santa Fe Trail to the Kansas area. 510.1

Olsen, Michael L. "And a Child Shall Lead Them: The Legendary Introduction of Turkey Red Wheat into Kansas." In Great Mysteries of the West. Edited by Ferenc Morton Szasz. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Publishing, 1993. The most recent look at a persistent Kansas "myth," involving the German-Russian Mennonites and little Anna Barkman, and its historiography. 2010.1

Olsen, Michael L. "Old Ruts and New: The History of Santa Fe Trail History." Kansas History 19 (Winter 1996/1997): 228-241. Olsen offers here a fascinating historiographical essay that examines the writings of both "those who would celebrate the trail and those who seek to interpret its significance." 2507.1

Opie, John. "The Drought of 1988, the Global Warning Experiment, and its Challenge to Irrigation in the Old Dust Bowl Region." Agricultural History 61 (Spring 1992): 279-306. Compares periods and development of irrigation; the golden age of irrigation cited as 1960-1990, with half of usable water spent. 2240.1

Opie, John. Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. This "historical study in the possibilities for American sustainable agriculture" focuses on the depletion of the aquifer that underlies portions of eight High Plains states, including much of western and central Kansas; irrigation "has turned the old Dust Bowl region into the breadbasket of the world." 2240.2

Ostler, Jeffrey Don. "The Fate of Populism: Agrarian Radicalism and State Politics in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892." Doc. diss., University of Iowa, 1990. 1019.1

Ostler, Jeffrey. Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. Using a comparative methodology, Ostler demonstrates that Populism was more than just a "hardship" versus "prosperity" phenomenon; also, in Kansas and Nebraska the "political doors to the Populist Party" were "flung open" while Iowa "left it standing on the porch," due to the nature of political competition in the three states. 1019.3

Ostler, Jeffrey. "The Rhetoric of Conspiracy and the Formation of Kansas Populism." Agricultural History 69 (Winter 1995): 1-27. The prevalence of "conspiracy-mindedness," long a contentious issue in Populist historiography, is Ostler's focus; he finds that "the rhetoric of conspiracy was widespread" but concludes that "Populists did not employ anti-Semitic language nearly as often as they used the language of an English conspiracy, and the central focus of Populist conspiracy-theorizing was on bankers as a class rather than as Jews." 1019.4

Ostler, Jeffrey. "Why the Populist Party Was Strong in Kansas and Nebraska but Weak in Iowa." Western Historical Quarterly 23 (November 1992): 452-74. Stressed political response to Alliance demands by major parties in Iowa, but not so in Kansas and Nebraska. 1019.2

Otero, Miguel Antonio. My Life on the Frontier, 1864-1882: Incidents and Characters of the Period when Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico were passing through the last of their Wild and Romantic Years. New York: The Press of Pioneers, 1935. Otero, a former governor New Mexico, spent the late 1860s in Kansas while in the employ of his father's commission house; he relates memories of the "wild and woolly town" of Hays City and acquaintances such as Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill Cody. 2127.1

Ottenheimer, Martin. Forbidden Relatives: the American Myth of Cousin Marriage. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. An examination of laws prohibiting first cousin marriage, which shows that thirty states followed Kansas in enacting such laws. Consanguine and affine marriages are restricted in various ways, not based on laws of genetics. 3112.1

Paddock, Joel. "Democratic Politics in a Republican State: The Gubernatorial Campaigns of Robert Docking, 1966-1972." Kansas History 17 (Summer 1994): 108-123. Recounts Robert Docking's success in gaining election to an unprecedented four terms as governor; Docking's position on such national and state issues as the war in Vietnam and taxes is analyzed with regard to its impact on Kansas politics. 1956.1

Pady, Donald S. "GLR Bibliography: William Allen White." Great Lakes Review 5 (Summer 1978): 49-66. Also includes reviews of White's books and obituaries. 1933.2

Page, Brian Kirby. "Agro-Industrialization and Rural Transformation: The Restructuring of Midwestern Meat Production." Doc. diss., University of California, Berkley, 1993. 2407.1

Papers of the St. Louis Fur Trade. Part I: The Chouteau Collection, 1752-1925. Part II: Fur Trade Ledgers and Account Books. 63 microfilm reels. Bethesda, Md.: University Publications of America, 1992. 367.1

Parman, Donald L. Indians and the American West in the Twentieth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. Kansas, which had a Native American population of 2,130 in 1900, is included in the author's definition of the "Indian West." 298.1

Patrick, Jeffrey L., editor. "`This Regiment Will Make A Mark': Letters From a Member of `Jennison's Jayhawkers,' 1861-1862." Kansas History 20 (Spring 1997): 50-58. Three fascinating letters written by a soldier in Company K of the Seventh Kansas Cavalry to the editor of the Enterprise, Mishawaka, Indiana, take on added importance when it is recognized that the correspondent was a member of an especially active company commanded by John Brown, Jr. 1214.1

Peffer, William A., edited and with introduction by Peter H. Argersinger. Populism, Its Rise and Fall. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1991. A memoir, written in 1899 and first published as a series of articles in the Chicago Tribune, by one of the movements primary leaders and U.S. senator from Kansas. 1020.1

Peffer, William A. Agricultural Depression; Causes and Remedies. Report by Mr. Peffer submitted to the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, February 15, 1894. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1895. 1020.2

Pendleton, Jason. "Jim Crow Strikes Out: Interracial Baseball in Wichita, Kansas, 1920-1935." Kansas History 20 (Summer 1997): 86-101. Segregation was pervasive, even in "Free Kansas," during the early twentieth century, but despite that fact, writes Pendleton, Kansans enjoyed interracial baseball of the professional and semi-pro variety, and it "served as the vehicle for bringing whites and African Americans together as equals on a consistent basis." 1786.1

Penner, Marci, and Milferd Penner. "In Search of a Sarsaparilla: The Soda Fountains of Kansas." Kansas Heritage 1 (Winter 1993): 59-61. Features photographs of fountains at Burlington, Cimarron, Sedan, and Yates Center. 3113.1

Perkins, Duane Roy. "The Ku Klux Klan in Lyon County, Kansas in the 1920s." Master's thesis, Emporia State University, 1994. 1693.1

Peters, Arthur King. Seven Trails West. New York: Abbeville Press, Publishers, 1996. A handsome, generously illustrated volume obviously designed for a general audience, the Seven Trails West are Lewis and Clark's expedition, the Santa Fe, the Oregon-California, the Mormon, the Pony Express, the Transcontinental Telegraph, and the Transcontinental Railroad. 392.1

Peters, Robert M. Our Kansas Heritage: A Memoir of the 1920s and 1930s. Arkansas City, Kans.: Gilliland Printing Inc., 1993. Provides author's recollections of growing up in Kansas. 3113.2

Peterson, John M. "Forgotten Kansas Artist: Adam Rohe." Kansas History 17 (Winter 1994-1995): 221-235. Rohe was a late 19th century Lawrence, Kansas, painter, who was also a pioneer in the use of agriculture produce in exhibition displays; the corn palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, was his most monumental accomplishment. 2811.1

Peterson, John M., editor. "From Border War to Civil War: More Letters of Edward and Sarah Fitch, 1855-1863, Part I." Kansas History 20 (Spring 1997): 2-21; ". . . Part II." 20 (Summer 1997): 68-85. Kansas History first published the "Letters of Edward and Sarah Fitch" in the spring and summer of 1989; an additional cache of letters, shedding light on "many of the ordinary trials and successes of settlers in a strange and newly-settled land" and revealing much about political machinations in the troubled Kansas Territory, are presented here. 1215.1

Peterson, Roger S. "Wyatt Earp: Man Versus Myth." American History Illustrated 29 (August 1994): 54-61, 68-70. Reveals "a man largely at odds with the stereotype . . . fixed in American popular culture." 2163.1

Pfannenstiel, William, compiler. The William Inge Collection of Independence Community College Library: Annotated Bibliography. Independence, Kans.: Independence Community College, 1986. 2772.1

Phillips, Charles, and Alan Axelrod, editors. Encyclopedia of the American West. New York: Macmillan, 1996. With more than seventeen hundred entries on two thousand and some odd pages and over a thousand pictures plus bibliography and index, this four volume encyclopedic work surpasses Howard Lamar's fine Readers Encyclopedia of the American West (3352) in its breadth of coverage. 3355.1

Pickle, Linda Schelbitzki. Contented among Strangers: Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1996. The author includes in her study the states of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. 3162.1

Pierson, Michael D., editor. "`A War of Extermination': A Newly Uncovered Letter by Julia Louisa Lovejoy, 1856." Kansas History 16 (Summer 1993): 120-123. This letter is addressed from Lawrence, K.T., August 25, 1856, and appeared in the Concord, N.H., Independent Democrat. 885.1

Pierson, Michael D. "`All Southern Society is Assailed by the Foulest Charges': Charles Sumner's `The Crime against Kansas' and the Escalation of Republican Anti-Slavery Rhetoric." New England Quarterly 68 (December 1995): 531-557. Although previous historians have reduced "Sumner's speech to a catalogue of insults" and "thus diminished the oration and the violence it inspired to the level of personal rancor between erratic individuals," Pierson argues that "Sumner's political acumen was considerable" and the speech was calculated "to escalate the level of anti-slavery rhetoric in Massachusetts [where he was preparing to stand for reelection] by attacking the morality of slavery itself." 771.1

Pigno, Antonio Quintana. "Along the Creek Behind St. Catherine's: Hispanic Folklore of Emporia, Kansas." Kansas Quarterly 25 (no. 2, 1994): 87-95. Recounts traditional legends and those unique to the Emporia Hispanic community. 1505.1

Pillsburry, Richard, and John Florin. Atlas of American Agriculture: The American Cornicopia. New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1996. 3420.1

Pisciotte, Joe, compiler and editor. Selected Papers of Governor John Carlin, 1979-1987: An Index of Social and Political Change. Wichita, Kans.: Center for Urban Studies, Wichita State University, 1993. Kansas' fortieth governor was, according to Pisciotte, "a change agent"; his "legacy of change" is reflected here in more than 1,000 pages of documents. A valuable "Description" of the Carlin records on deposit at the Kansas State Historical society is included as one of several appendixes. 1105.1

Pohly, Linda L. "Cultures in Harmony: Welsh Choral Music in Nineteenth-Century Kansas." Kansas History 17 (Autumn 1994): 178-191. The author, who focuses on the Emporia area, investigates the importance of the "eisteddfod, a literary and musical competition," on Kansas' Welsh community and to the development of state music contests. 2793.1

Port, Clyde, and Mary Reed Port. Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. 437.1

Potts, James B. "North of `Bleeding Kansas': The 1850s Political Crisis in Nebraska Territory." Nebraska History 73 (Fall 1992): 110-118. Frequent mention of the Kansas struggle--a sharp contrast to Nebraska scene--and discussion of issues such as the annexation of the "South Platte" region to Kansas. 779.1

Potts, Louis W., and George F. W. Hauck. "Frontier Bridge Building: The Hannibal Bridge at Kansas City, 1867-1869." Missouri Historical Review 89 (January 1995): 139-161. Completion of this first railroad bridge across the Missouri River contributed mightily to the dominance of Kansas City. 2619.2

Powers, Ramon S., and Gene Younger. "Cholera and the Army in the West: Treatment and Control in 1866 and 1867." Military Affairs 39 (April 1975): 49-54. Main focus is the forts of the Kansas frontier including Harker, Hays, and Wallace. 1294.1

Prassel, Frank Richard. The Great American Outlaw: A Legacy of Fact and Fiction. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. In an effort to gain an understanding of America's fascination with the outlaw and the "outlaw myth," the author looks at an assortment of notorious characters spanning nearly a millennium; included are William C. Quantrill, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, and many others of special interest to students of nineteenth-century Kansas. 2131.1

Prosser, Daniel J. "Foundations of Our Past: The Architecture of the Memorial Building." Kansas History 18 (Autumn 1995): 164-177. Prosser examines the monumental structure that served as home to the KSHS (1914-1995) and the Grand Army of the Republic and how its interior was altered over time to accommodate changing space needs. 2894.1

Prucha, Francis Paul. American Indian Treaties: The History of a Political Anomoly. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. 191.1

Quantic, Diane Dufva. The Nature of Place. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. A comprehensive study of Great Plains novels and stories. 2741.1

Quantic, Diane Dufva. William Allen White. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, 1993. BSU's Western Writers Series, No. 109. 1933.2

Quastler, I. E. "Charting a Course: Lawrence, Kansas, and Its Railroad Strategy, 1854-1872." Kansas History 18 (Spring 1995): 18-33. For a time, civic and business leaders sought to make Lawrence the regional rail center with an aggressive promotion's plan, but they ultimately, and perhaps inevitaby, lost the prize to Kansas City; this piece is largely drawn from the author's 1979 book-length study, The Railroads of Lawrence. 2619.2

Quastler, I. E. Missouri Pacific Nothwest: A History of the Kansas City Northwestern Railroad. David City, Nebr.: South Platte Press, 1994. 2619.1

Reed, Bradley Clinton. "Landscape/Drought Interaction in the Central Plains." Doc. diss., University of Kansas, 1990. Made use of satellite data from drought of 1988 and found variables related to soil type, slope, and depth of water table. 2241.1

Reedstrom, E. Lisle. Custer's 7th Cavalry: From Fort Riley to the Little Big Horn. New York: Sterling, 1992. 1568.1

Reese, Linda Williams. "`Working In The Vineyard': African-American Women In All-Black Communities." Kansas Quarterly 25 (no. 2, 1994): 7-16. Concentrates on Langston and Boley, Oklahoma, and mentions E. P. McCabe, Kansas state auditor in the 1880s and Langston City promoter. 1505.2

Reeve, Agnesa. Constant Frontier: The Continuing History of Finney County, Kansas. Garden City, Kansas: Finney County Historical Society, 1996. 3793.1

Reichert, Viola. Half Mound: The Hill, the People and the Times. Topeka, Kan. : Econ-o-print, 1994. Jefferson County history. 3897.1

Reichman, O. J., with photographs by Steve Mulligan. Living Landscapes of Kansas. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. Features famous landscapes in Kansas and various flowers found in the state. 30.1

Reitz, Susa Nadine. "The Historical Development of the Salina, Kansas, School System, 1861-1970." Doc. diss., Kansas State University, 1995. 4274.1

"Remembering These Marble Halls: Reflections on the Memorial Building." Kansas History 18 (Autumn 1995): 178-207. Five reminiscenses by individuals with a long association with the Society at its Tenth and Jackson location: Dudley T. Cornish, Homer E. Socolofsky, Joseph W. Snell, Robert W. Richmond, and Clifford R. Hope, Jr. 2895.1

Renehan, Jr., Edward J. The Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired with John Brown. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. Hardcover edition by Crown Publishing, 1995. 900.1

Resh, Richard W. "A Vision in Emporia: William Allen White's Search for Community." Midcontinent American Studies Journal 10 (Fall 1969): 19-35. Relates White's writings to the Progressive Movement and his hope for "an organic, moral community." 1933.3

Richmond, Nel, editor. Kansas First Families at Home. Topeka: Friends of Cedar Crest Association, 1993. Updating of the 1982 publication by Karen Carlin and Robert Richmond (#3078) to include the Hayden and Finney families. 3115.1

Richmond, Robert W. Aurthus Jehu Stanley, Jr., Senior United States District Judge: A Biography. Second Edition. Newton, Kans. : Mennonite Press, Inc., 1996. 1956.1

Richmond, Robert W. Biography of the Honorable Earl E. O'Connor, Senior United States District Judge. Newton Kan. : Mennonite Press, Inc., 1997. 1956.2

Richmond, Robert W. Dale Emerson Saffels, Senior United States District Judge : a biography. Newton, Kans.: Mennonite Press, 1996. 1956.3

Richmond, Robert W. Kansas: A Pictorial History, Revised Edition. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. Substantially revised and updated version of a 1961 publication then prepared by Miller, Langsdorf, and Richmond, #3370. 3373.1

Riddle, Thomas W. The Old Radicalism: John R. Rogers and the Populist Movement in Washington. N.Y.: Garland Publishing, 1991. Unrevised doctoral dissertation completed in 1976. Rogers (1838-1901) lived in Harvey County from 1876-1890, before he moved to the state of Washington, where he became governor on the Populist ticket in 1897. 1030.1

Riedel, Juanita M. (Smith), Sidewalks. Jackson, Michigan, The Author, 1997. Reminiscence of the author's life, including her youth in Kansas. 3117.1

Riley, Glenda. A Place To Grow: Women in the American West. Arlington Heights, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1992. A collection of Riley's recently published articles, plus writings by women who experienced the West first hand. 3167.1

Riley, Michael O. Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. Bases the work on "the combined visions" of other authors who viewed the Oz phenonomen. Riley's doctoral dissertation was completed in 1988. 2742.1

Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela. "From the Horse's Mouth: Dust Bowl Farmers and Their Solutions to the Problem of Aridity." Agricultural History 61 (Spring 1992): 137-150. Farmers in southwest Kansas accepted federal aid during these hard times, but they also agitated for policy reform and looked for ways to help themselves--"to adapt their agriculture to the Plains, or the Plains to meet their conception of agriculture." 1823.1

Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela. "Hard Times, Hungry Years: The Failure of Poor Relief in Southwestern Kansas, 1930-1933." Kansas History 15 (Autumn 1992): 154-167. Concentrates on Finney County as an example of local relief efforts and other happenings in the area. 3793.1

Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela. Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. Concentrates on the 75 percent of the population who stayed through the 1930s, and thus provides a social history of survival during these years of drought and depression. 1823.2

Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela. "Separation and Sorrow: A Farm Woman's Life, 1935-1941." Agricultural History 67 (Spring 1993): 185-196. Based on the daily diaries of Martha Schmidt Friesen (1884-1955), Hamilton County, Kansas. 3170.1

Rives, Timothy D. "The Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City, 1921-1930." Master's thesis, Emporia State University, 1995. 1695.1

Rodecap, Vera Ellerman. The Country Schoolteacher: A Kansas Legacy. Holton, Kans.: Author, 1993. Includes information about 155 one-room schools in fourty-four Kansas counties, coveyed mainly through the remeniscences of more than seventy courtry school teachers. 2939.1

Rogers, Katherine. The Sternberg Fossil Hunters: A Dinosaur Dynasty. Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press, 1991. The life story of a professional fossil hunter, Charles H. Sternberg (1850-1943), and his family, especially sons Charles M. and Levi, and brother George M. who got their start on the plains of western Kansas. 3043.1

Rogers, Richard D. "The Story of Brave Kansans." Kansas History 18 (Winter 1995/1996): 258-269. Judge Rogers' KSHS presidential address focusing on the role of the Shawnee County militia in the defense of Kansas during Price's 1864 raid. 1218.1

Rollings, Willard H. The Osage: An Ethnohistorical Study of Hegemony on the Prairie-Plains. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993. Covers social life, customs and history, and includes a 23-page bibliography. 106.1

Romines, Ann. "Writing the Little House: The Architecture of a Series." Great Plains Quarterly 14 (Spring 1994): 107-115. Includes comments about the "Little House on the Prairie," located in Montgomery County. 2743.1

Roper, Scott. "Maintaining the 'Cheery Fires': Servant's Space in the Turn-of-the-Century Kansas House." Material Culture 28 (Fall1996): 17-40. 3119.1

Rosa, Joseph G. Age of the Gunfighter: Men and Weapons on the Frontier, 1840-1900. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. Evolved from the author's 1969 publication, The Gunfighter: Man and Myth. 2133.1

Rosa, Joseph G. Wild Bill Hickok: The Man and His Myth. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. A new and more complete biography of one of the West's most famous characters. 2171.1

Rose, Mark H. Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. Rose looks at the remarkable spread of this technology during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Kansas City and Denver. 2437.1

Rosengarten, Frederick Jr. Wilson Popenoe: Agricultural Explorer, Educator, and Friend of Latin America. Lawai, Kauai, Hawaii: Tropical Botanical Garden, 1991. Born in Topeka in 1892, the son of Fred Popenoe and the grandson of pioneers Willis and Miranda Popenoe, Wilson's family moved to California in 1904; this study is based largely on Popenoe's published works. 2350.1

Rosing, Ruth Glean. Val Rosing, Musical Genius: An Intimate Biography. Manhattan, Kans.: Sunflower University Press, 1993. The career of this Russian-born tenor and operatic director is here detailed by his wife, a vocalist; Val Rosing came to the U.S. in 1923 to organize the American Opera Company, and, among his many other accomplishments, produce "The Kansas Story" for the state's centennial celebration in 1961; one photo shows the Rosings with Nyle H. Miller, secretary of the state historical society. 2795.1

Ross, Rodney A. "Field Notes: Using the U.S. Congressional Serial Set for the Study of Western History." Western Historical Quarterly 25 (Summer 1994): 209-213. Shows significance of this documentary series and mentions Senator John J. Ingalls' disputed election of 1880 and a section on Kansas cities as examples. 2451.1

Roth, Mitchell Philip. "The Western Cholera Trail: Studies in the Urban Reponse to Epidemic Disease in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1848-1850." Doc. diss., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1993. 491.1

Rothman, Hal K. "Building Community: The Jews of Wichita 1860-1900." Kansas Quarterly 25 (no. 2, 1994): 77-86. Formation of Jewish owned businesses and development of a synagogue. 1506.1

Rothman, Hal K. "The Perceptual Trap? Climate and Perception in the Nineteenth-Century American West." Halcyon 17 (* 1995): * . 2242.1

Rothman, Hal K. "Same Horse, New Wagon: Tradition and Assimilation Among Jews of Wichita, 1865-1930." Great Plains Quarterly 15 (Spring 1995): 117-132. Describes the sense of identity for the relatively small numbers of Jews in Wichita. 1506.2

Rowe, Frank Joseph, and Craig Miner. Borne of the South Wind: A Century of Kansas Aviation. Wichita, Kans.: Wichita Eagle & Beacon Publishing Co., 1994. A well-written, comprehensive history of an important Kansas industry, with many wonderful illustrations depicting adventures in Kansas flight from the Purvis and Wilson 1909 rotary-winged aircraft to Learjet's Model 60, a transcontinental business jet. 2663.1

Rowley, E. H. Time Before Space. Manhattan, Kans.: Sunflower University Press, 1994. Written by an aeronautical engineer who retired from Boeing in Wichita as the chief of flight test. He describes his experiences from the 1920s to the development of the B-47. 2663.2

Rowlison, Don. "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys." Kansas Heritage 1 (Spring 1993): 2-6. Reflections on real life activities of today's cow hands in Kansas cattle country. 2137.1

Russell, Ray L. The Miracle of Personal Leadership. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company, 1997. Describes a new model of personal leadership, and uses many Kansas examples, by a 1956 graduate of KSU in Veterinary Medicine. 3120.1

Rutledge, Carol Brunner. Dying and Living on the Kansas Prairie: A Diary. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. Involves a ninety-day death watch by a Topekan who traveled to Hope to be with her mother. 1507.1

Rydjord, John. History of Fairmount College. Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1977. What ultimately became Wichita State University was founded as Fairmount Institute in 1892; four years later it took the name Fairmount College. 2998.1

Sachs, David H., and George Ehrlich. Guide to Kansas Architecture. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Numerous maps, charts, and photographs make this a very useful and usable guidebook with cross-disciplinary value. 2898.1

Samson, Fred B., and Fritz L. Knopf, editors. Prairie Conservation: Preserving North America's Most Endangered Ecosystem. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1996. 32.1

Samuelson, Bill. One Room Country Schools of Kansas. Emporia, Kans.: Chester Press, 1996. "Based upon extensive research and hundreds of interviews with former students and teachers," this volume covers an important part of Kansas' educational experience from early settlement days to "the legacy of the one room school"; this collection of country school documents covers several important themes, from curriculum, improvements, and teacher training to school grounds, students, and playground activities. 2940.1

Saul, Norman E. "Grand Duke Alexis and the American West." In The Prairie Scout. Volume 6 (Manhattan, Kans.: The Kansas Corral of the Westerners, Inc., 1996), 23-42. The 1872 trip of the Russian prince to hunt buffalo via the Union Pacific west in Nebraska and the Kansas Pacific east in Kansas. 1298.1

Saul, Norman E. "Through Curious and Foreign Eyes: Grigorri Machtet Chronicles the Kansas Frontier, 1872-1873." Kansas History 17 (Summer 1994): 76-89. Soon to become "a well-known popular author in a great age of Russian literature," Machtet's Kansas adventures in northeastern--especially Marysville--and southeastern--at the William Frey's Cedar Vale commune--Kansas were published in Russia some years later; the article is based largely on these writings. 1374.1

Savage, William W., Jr., editor. Cowboy Life: Reconstructing an American Myth. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1993. The pervasiveness of the cowboy myth is explored through a collection of essays by noted westerners such as Joseph McCoy, Richard Dodge, and Charles M. Harger; originally published in 1975, the book contains fifty-one historic photos. 2198.1

Savage, William W., Jr. "Of Cattle and Corporations: The Rise, Progress, and Termination of the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association." Chronicles of Oklahoma 71 (Summer 1993): 138-153. Explores the association's relationship with the Cherokee Nation during the decade prior to 1893; there was much Kansas involvement in this important organization. 2138.1

Schlereth, Thomas J. Reading the Road: U.S. 40 and the American Landscape. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. This guide to one of the country's most significant highways was originally published as U.S. 40: A Roadscape of American Experience by the Indiana Historical Society in 1985. 2528.1

Schlesier, Karl H., editor. Plains Indians, A.D. 500-1500: The Archaeological Past of Historic Groups. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. Relates American Indian peoples to archaeological complexes. 53.1

Schmiedler, Tom L. "Origin and Evolution of Town Forms in North-Central Kansas, 1860-1900." Doc. diss., University of Kansas, 1991. Identifies "three classes of urban forms--the central courthouse square, main street, and railroad town forms--that are found in a six-county area of north-central Kansas." 1375.1

Schock, Adolph. In Quest of Free Land. San Jose, Calif.: San Jose State College, 1964. Coverage includes German-Russians, Mennonites, Catholics, and Lutherans in the old Northwest and on the Plains (Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas) from 1700 to 1929. 1375.2

Schruben, Francis W. "The Wizard of Milford: Dr. J. R. Brinkley and Brinkleyism." Kansas History 14 (Winter 1991/92): 226-245. A sympathetic interpretation of Brinkley's activities and goals. 1829.1

Schubert, Frank N. On the Trail of the Buffalo Soldier: Biographies of African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1861-1917. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1995. 1298.1

Schultz, Constance, editor, with text commentary by Donald Worster. Bust to Boom: Documentary Photographs of Kansas, 1936-1949. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. An impressive collection of Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information, and Standard Oil of New Jersey photographs depicting the momentous change that affected Kansans, from the depths of depression through the boom of the postwar years. 3214.1

Schultz, Duane. Quantrill's War: The Life and Times of William Clarke Quantrill. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. The guerrilla leader is depicted as a "cruel and merciless" child who grew up to be man driven by greed and a desire to exact revenge; a man who "stood for no principles" and "had no personal convictions," but who nevertheless won the respect of his followers apparently because he was a masterful planner and "was brave and daring in battle." 1142.1

Schultz, Elizabeth. "Dreams Deferred: The Personal Narratives of Four Black Kansans." American Studies 34 (Fall 1993): 25-51. The words of Langston Hughes, Gordon Parks, Frank Marshall Davis, and Grant Cushinberry allow the author to examine the "ambiguous and arbitrary racial atmosphere" of early twentieth-century Kansas, as well as "the persistence of Black Kansans in their efforts to survive and prevail." 3120.1

Schultz, Jerry Allen. "The Kickapoo Nation School: Local-Level Politics, Collaboration, and Indian Education." Doc. diss., University of Kansas, 1992. 2954.1

Schuyler, Michael W. "New Deal Farm Policy in the Middle West--A Retrospective View." Journal of the West 33 (October 1994): 52-63. Kansas examples are included in this look at the impact of the farm programs of the 1930s. 2323.1

Schwarzenholz, Lisa. "Henry Varnum Poor in the School of American Realism." Kansas Quarterly 24 (no. 1, 1993): 61-66. Born in Chapman in 1887, Poor trained at Stanford University, at the Slade School of Art in London, and at the Academie Julian in Paris before returning to Stanford as a member of the faculty; with four sketches of his paintings. 2818.1

Scott, Gwendolyn. "The Santa Fe Depot Landscape in Dodge City, Kansas: An Historical Inquiry." Master's thesis, Kansas State University, 1993. An analysis of the built environment and the centrality of the AT&SF property and influence in the city's development. 3812.1

Sculle, Keith A. "`The New Carlisle of the West': Haskell Institute and Big-Time Sports 1920-1932." Kansas History 17 (Autumn 1994): 192-208. Examines the relationship between sports programs and the assimilationists' objectives for Indian boarding schools like the one at Lawrence; Haskell officials sought to emulate Carlisle (Pa.) Indian Industrial School. 2999.1

Seavey, Charles A. Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1540-1861: An Index to the Cartobiography. Eugene, Oregon: Map and Geography Round Table/American Library Association, 1992. Indexes authors, cartographers, engravers, along with geographic names and map titles in Carl Wheat's Mapping the Transmississippi West, #3425. 3420.1

Sebastian-Colman, George L. "Re-Opening the West: Thomas James, Josiah Gregg, and the Rhetoric of the `Prairie Ocean'." Heritage of the Great Plains 27 (Winter 1994): 19-36. With Turner's late nineteenth-century thesis in mind, the author analyzes the works of two significant antebellum authors: James, Three Years Among the Mexicans and Indians (1846), who "retains the rhetoric of `conquering the wilderness,'" and Gregg, Commerce of the Prairie, who "through his metaphor of the `prairie ocean,' reopens the frontier without excluding its inhabitants." 368.1

Secoy, Frank Raymond. Changing Military Patterns of the Great Plain Indians. Lincoln: University Nebraska Press, 1992. First published in 1953, this Bison Book edition offers a new introduction by Smithsonian Institution ethnologist emeritus John C. Ewers and still valuable insights into three centuries of Plains Indian history, most especially the "extent to which the horse" changed the nature of warfare and "transformed native society." 193.1

Self, Huber, and Stephen E. White. "One Hundred and Twenty Years of Population Change in Kansas." Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 89 (no. 1-2, 1986): 10-22. 1823.1

SenGupta, Gunja. "Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs: The North-Eastern Antislavery Movement in Kansas, 1854-1860." Doc. diss., Tulane University, 1991. Story told "through the lens of the free state constituency in the territory." 714.1

SenGupta, Gunja. For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1854-1860. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1996. An intriguing examination of the complexity of free-state movement in Kansas Territory as well as the ideology and dynamics of proslavery activism. 714.4

SenGupta, Gunja. "`A Model New England State': Northeastern Antislavery in Territorial Kansas, 1854-1860." Civil War History 39 (March 1993): 31-46. New England abolitionists sought more than the defeat of slavery; they wished to place their "uniquely northeastern tapestry of `Americanism' over the morally and economically vulnerable West." 714.2

SenGupta, Gunja. "Servants for Freedom: Christian Abolitionists in Territorial Kansas, 1854-1858." Kansas History 16 (Autumn 1993): 200-213. Focuses on the beliefs and work of a handful of "radical" abolitionist missionaries affiliated with the American Missionary Association. 714.3

Sharp, Nancy Weatherby, and James Rogers Sharp, editors. American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1997. Includes biographical sketches of the thirty-four speakers of the Kansas House of Representatives, 1911-1994, by Kansas authors, as well as charts comparing the Kansas speakers with others from the Midwest. 1034.1

Shea, William L., and Earl J. Hess. Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Full narrative of the spring and summer 1862 campaign and battle conducted in northwestern Arkansas which involved many Kansas troops. 1218.1

Shea, William L. "The Road to Pea Ridge." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 52 (Autumn 1993): 205-222. 1218.2

Sheets, Jeff. "Head 'Em Up, Move 'Em Out: The Legacy of the Chisholm Trail." Kansas Heritage 5 (Summer 1997): 4-8. 2139.1

Sheridan, Richard B. "`A Most Unusual Gathering': The 1913 Semi-Centennial Memorial Reunion of the Survivors of Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence." Kansas History 20 (Autumn 1997): 176-191. Reunions, especially those involving Civil War veterans, were a common occurrence during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but Lawrence's 1913 event was somewhat unique and "significant in that it memorialized a tragic event of great importance in Civil War Kansas and the United States." 3735.1

Sherow, James E. "On the Rim of the Desert's Heart: Kansas and Water." Kansas History 18 (Spring 1996): 2-5. An introduction to a special issue of the journal, "Water in Kansas." 1654.2

Sherow, James E. "Workings of the Geodialectic: High Plains Indians and Their Horses in the Region of the Arkansas River Valley, 1800-1870." Environmental History Review 16 (Summer 1992): 61-84. Geodialetic "implies ever changing environments on this planet," writes Sherow, who concludes that "Horses proved both an innovative addition, and a vexation to High Plains Indians. Regardless of how Indians viewed their place in nature, environmental flux, caused both by people and other forces, rendered many of their adaptation strategies ineffective." 193.2

Sherow, James E., and Homer E. Socolofsky. "Kansas and Water: Survival in the Heartland." In Politics in the Post-War American West, edited by Richard Lowitt. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. Concentrates on water issues since World War II. 1654.1

Shindo, Charles J. Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. Impressions of the Dust Bowl for Shindo are based on photos, fiction, film, and song. 2244.1

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. 1377.1

Shpall, Leo. "Jewish Agricultural Colonies in the United States." Agricultural History 24 (July 1950): 120-146. Jewish (Russian) colonization throughout the 19th century with a focus on the "mass migration" of the 1880s; the Kansas colonies of "Beer Sheba," Montefiore, and Lasker are briefly discussed with another four only mentioned. 1508.1

Simmons, Marc. The Old Santa Fe Trail: Collected Essays. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. A brief overview of the trail's history is followed by twenty essays dealing with various aspects of its history, including the Kansas DAR's early twentieth century project to mark the old road before all memories of it were lost. 2510.1

Sinisi, Kyle Scott. "Civil War Claims and American Federalism, 1861-1880." Doc. diss., Kansas State University, 1997. Shows how efforts of the states of Kansas, Kentucky, and Missouri to recover their war expenses. 1534.1

Sinisi, Kyle S. "Politics on the Plains: Thomas Carney and the Pursuit of Office During the Gilded Age." Heritage of the Great Plains 25 (Summer 1992): 25-38. Carney's political career following his term as governor of Kansas in the early 1860s. 1534.1

Smith, Doris Brewster. Life on Mississippi Street: The War Years, 1941-1945. Tulsa, Okla.: LOMS Publications, 1996. This is the final volume of reminiscences about the author's life in Lawrence, Kansas--volume one covered the years 1919-1931 and volume two covered the Depression years. Like the others, this one contains numerous illustrations and is constructed around daily diary entries. 3736.1

Smith, F. Todd. The Caddos, the Wichitas, and the United States, 1846-1901. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996. The Wichitas, a people of Caddoan stock whose ancestors had met Coronado on the plains of Kansas, were forced to return to Kansas during the Civil War after an absense of many years; one chapter focuses on their tragic wartime experience. 117.1

Smith, Katherine Ann. "Mother Earth, Woman Spirit: Women and the Feminine Character as Symbol and Reality in the Nineteenth Century Plains Indian Culture." Doc. diss., Saint Louis University, 1992. Explores "importance of the feminine presence in both the women's and the men's ritual and spiritual activities, social structure, and prosaic endeavors." 193.1

Smith, Reed Williams. "Samuel Medary and The Crisis: An Experiment in First Amendment Freedom." Doc. diss., Ohio University, 1993. Medary's newspaper in Ohio before he was the last appointed governor of the territory of Kansas. 649.1

Smith, Robert Barr. The Daltons! The Raid on Coffeyville, Kansas. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Features the Dalton's notoriety and their raid on two Coffeyville banks on October 5, 1892. 4086.1

Smits, David D. "The Frontier Army and the Destruction of the Buffalo: 1865-1883." Western Historical Quarterly 25 (Autumn 1994): 312-338. Concludes that "the frontier army's well-calculated policy of destroying the buffalo in order to conquer the Plains Indians proved more effective than any other weapon in its arsenal." 515.1

Socolofsky, Homer E. "The Bittersweet Tale of Sorghum Sugar." Kansas History 16 (Winter 1993): 276-289. The Kansas experiments to produce sugar from sorghum are linked with both the U.S.D.A. and the Kansas legislature. 2326.1

Socolofsky, Homer E. "Oh, Give Me A Home: Finding the Origins of `Home on the Range'." Kansas Heritage 3 (Winter 1995): 69-72. Smith County claims to the author are verified in published poems, but the county's claims for composer lack documentary support. 2903.1

Socolofsky, Homer E. Biography of the Honorable Richard Dean Rogers: Senior United States District Judge. Newton, Kans.: Mennonite Press, 1995. Life and career of Judge Rogers, born in Oberlin in 1921; U.S. district judge since 1975. 1956.1

Soella, Sally Bradstreet. "New Deal Art: The Section of Fine Arts Program in the Great Plains States." Doc. diss., University of Okalahoma, 1993. 2903.2

Sorensen, Ruth. Beyond the Prairie Wind: History, Folklore and Traditions from Denmark, Kansas. Hillsboro, Kans.: Partnership Book Services, 1996. The story of a rural, ethnic, north-central Kansas community as told, in many cases, by the descendants of the original Danish settlers. 3980.1

Souder, Jon A., and Sally K. Fairfax. The State Lands: History, Management, and Sustainable Use. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Analysis of state trust land in twenty-two states over 200 years. 1996.1

Staab, Rodney. "Dining with the Delawares: Kansas Delawares Homes and Hospitality 1830s-1860s." Papers of the Twenty-third Algonquian Conference, edited by William Cowan. Ottawa, Canada: Carleton University, 1992. 124.1

Stagner, Lloyd E. Rock Island Motive Power, 1933-1955. Boulder, Colo.: Pruett Publishing Co., 1980. Includes a "timeline" history of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad com