Topics in Kansas History: Environment

Forces of Nature

Many Kansans enjoy the state's distinct change of seasons and what was often described as a healthy climate. In 1869, a Clay County woman wrote: "The climate here is very healthy, particularly for consumptives, more so than Florida or Minnesota, for we have that peculiar dryness of the atmosphere without the sultriness of the one or the extreme cold of the other." read more

Find resources on forces of nature.

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

• "Dust Storm" print by Herschel Logan
• Tornado photographs

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

Kansas History, our scholarly journal

• "The Great Flood of 1951: A Letter from Catharine Wright Menninger," Spring 1998
• "Kansas Literature of Drought and Dust," Winter 1997
• "Tragedy as Triumph: Liberal, Kansas, and Its 1933 Tornado," Summer 1998

Kansas Kaleidoscope, our children's magazine

• "The Dirty Thirties!" March 1999
• "I Love Kansas, Weather or Not," April/May 2003
• "Kansas Geography," April 1999

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