Topics in Kansas History: Community & Daily Life
Women
During the frontier period in Kansas history, women joined their husbands
in establishing homesteads across the state. Many were reluctant to
leave their friends and family while others saw homesteading as a challenging
new adventure. One such woman was Flora Moorman Heston. She wrote in
her diary in 1885, "I think we will be as happy as birds in a home
of our own out west." read more
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Kansas History, our scholarly journal
- "'A Faithful Account
of Everything': Letters from Katie Bowen on the Santa Fe Trail, 1851,"
Winter 1996
- "A Goblin That Drives
Her Insane": Sara
Robinson and the History Wars of Kansas, 1894-1911, Summer 2002
- "The Great Flood
of 1951: A Letter from Catharine Wright Menninger," Spring
1998
- "I Am Only a Woman:
Tiera Farrow's Defense of Clara Schweiger," Autumn 2002
- "Kansas Settlers
on the Osage Diminished Reserve: A Study of Laura Ingalls Wilder's
Little House on the Prairie," Autumn 2001
- "'Labouring for the Freedom of
This Territory': Free-State Kansas Women in the 1850s." Summer 1998, article also online
- "Marsh Murdock and
the Wily Women of Wichita: Domesticity Disputed in the Gilded Age,"
Spring 2002
- "'A Prayerful Public
Protest': The Significance of Gender in the Kansas Woman's Crusade
of 1874," Winter 1997
- "Women in Wheat
Country," Spring/Summer 2000
- "Women, Medicine, and Science: Kansas Female
Physicians, 1880-1910," Spring 1998
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