Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
2004
Abstract
Conquistadors and cowboys, Indians and Exodusters - to say nothing of such luminaries in the pantheon of popular culture as Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, and Buffalo Bill Cody - join the intricate weave of the historical tapestry of Kansas. Frequently glanced at as a "passing through" place, Kansas is more accurately perceived as a locale where regions and peoples meet, mingle, and merge. It is, after all, in Kansas that watered prairies taper off into vast Plains where Dust Bowl nightmares linger. This complex place and its complex history receive the attention of the twenty authors whose nineteen essays are brought together in Kansas and the West: New Perspectives.
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Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:3 (Summer 2004). Copyright © 2004 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.