Peopling the Plains: Who Settled Where in Frontier Kansas

by James R. Shortridge and Dina Nayeri

Book Overview

In the wake of the turbulent 1850s, Kansas was popularly portrayed as a Yankee stronghold, a "child of Plymouth Rock" where Puritan virtue triumphed over base Southern ways. Perpetuated by a century and a half of historical propaganda, this fictitious notion tenaciously shrouds the real Kansas.

In Peopling the Plains, James R. Shortridge helps set the record straight. Early Yankee settlers did indeed influence the location of major education...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700606971
• ISBN13: 9780700606979
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 9.3"