Title: Kansas: a land of contrasts
Authors: Richmond, Robert W.
Publisher: Forum Press
Year: 1974
Subjects: Kansas History.
Contents: The land and its native people -- The White Man comes to the Great Plains -- Indian removal and Christian missionary efforts -- Trails and early transportation -- "Bleeding Kansas"--the territorial period -- The first years of statehood -- The development of the railroads -- The cattle trade: trail herds, towns, and ranchers -- The frontier is settled -- Immigrants on the prairies -- Prohibition to populism, 1870-1900 -- Progressive politics and progress to a new century -- The first world war and a "return to normalcy" -- The changing, troubled twenties -- The "dirty thirties": Kansas and the Great Depression -- Changing times: World War II and its aftermath -- Kansas and the arts -- Change, controversy, and commemoration.