Topics in Kansas History: Settlement (1830 - 1890)

Farm & Ranch

Thousands of simple frame houses dotted the Kansas landscape during the late nineteenth century. Fewer and fewer remain each year as they are abandoned for more fashionable dwellings or as farms are consolidated. read more

Find resources on farm and ranch.

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

• Angell plow
• Barbed wire
• Cotton gin
• County fair posters
• Exoduster flier (African American settlement)
• Humbarger log house
• Locomotive No. 132
• Stagecoach
• Steam engine model
• Wheat People: Celebrating Kansas Harvest (an online exhibit)
• Windmill

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

Kansas Kaleidoscope, our children's magazine

• "Settlement in Kansas," September 1998
• "Amber Waves of Grain," May 1999
• "A Moving Experience: Immigration to Kansas," October/November 2001

Find other Settlement topics.