Topics in Kansas History: War

Military

Find resources on the military in Kansas.

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

• Kansas Forts Network

• Fort Hays State Historic Site in Hays
• Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site near Pleasanton

Books

• Kansas Forts Books
• Fort Dodge: Sentry of the Western Plains
• Fort Harker: Defending the Journey West
• Fort Hays: Keeping Peace on the Plains
• Fort Larned: Guardian of the Santa Fe Trail
• Fort Leavenworth: Gateway to the West
• Fort Riley: Citadel of the Frontier West
• Fort Scott: Courage and Conflict on the Border
• Fort Wallace: Sentinel on the Smoky Hill Trail

Kansas History, our scholarly journal

• "Fort Riley's Black Soldiers and the Army's Changing Role in the West, 1867-1885," Autumn 1999
• "A Richly Textured Community: Fort Riley, Kansas, and American Indians, 1853-1911," Spring 1998

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