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Publisher
Lone Chimney Productions
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Dramatic re-enactments of incidents in Bleeding Kansas history make up this documentary about Kansans, two belief systems--freedom and slavery, and Kansas' significance in U. S. history of the time. The Battle of Black Jack, the massacre along Pottawatomie Creek, territorial elections, and John Brown's hanging following the Harpers Ferry raid are among the scenes portrayed by local re-enactors.
Publisher
Smoky Hills Public Television
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Combines archival material with interviews with actual orphan train riders, rider descendants and historical consultants. Program helps create awareness of the Orphan Train Era and preserve the history of the movement and those who were a part of it.--Website.
Publisher
Kaw Valley Films
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
The rich bluestem grasses of the Flint Hills have made this area one of the best cattle grazing regions in the world. The Santa Fe and Oregon Trails passed through here and local history includes: cattle drives and cattle towns, railroads and roundups, rock fences and rustling, windmills and pasture burning.
7) Jayhawkers
Publisher
9th St Studios
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Recounts how a basketball giant named Wilt Chamberlain helped blur the lines separating blacks and whites in 1950s Kansas.
Series
Sunflower journeys volume 2707
Publisher
KTWU
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
"Independence (KS) Public Library honored as one of the best small libraries in the nation; Kansas libraries employ unorthodox approaches in extending their services; Jackie Hurst, a librarian works out of a bookmobile."--Web site.
Publisher
Kansas Humanities Council
Pub. Date
2008?
Language
English
Description
See how post rock tradition shaped the landscape and history of this Kansas region, an eighteen-mile route along K-232 from Wilson, Kansas, to Lucas, Kansas. Post rock limestone's impact on the history and culture of the area is discussed; Duane Vonada of Vonada Stone Quarry illustrates the technique for splitting limestone used by the early settlers. In this area limestone was a principal building material for civic structures, homesteads, farmsteads,...
11) Thof's Dragon
Publisher
Farmgirl Film Producations
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
(Docu-drama) Post Civil War soldiers find themselves on the High Plains in the midst of the Plains Indian Wars -- isolated, bored, often drunk. Curiosity overwhelms fear, however, when the post surgeon discovers the fossil of a prehistoric marine reptile. They were unlikely friends-the-well-educated post surgeon at Fort Wallace and the Frontier Scout. It was an unlikely time-the height of the hostilities with the Plains tribes resisting westward...
Publisher
Smoky Hills Public Television
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Smoky Hills Public Television produced a documentary titled, “Stories from The Dust Bowl.” Through the use of old photographs, music, film and interviews with those who lived through this time period, Smoky Hills Public Television presents a special program that tells the story of this critical time in history. It is important to capture the recollections and stories from the past to learn of the hardships of those who survived and continued to...
Publisher
Lone Chimney Films
Pub. Date
�2013
Language
English
Description
"Long after the war, Confederate veteran Barry Benson said that if the veterans did not all rejoin on Earth, then possibly one day in Valhalla. Valhalla is a term that was often used in Norse mythology, initially as the hall of the slain or the slain warrior -- a warrior's heaven. In this third full-length documentary by Lone Chimney Films, 'The Road to Valhalla' concludes the story of the Kansas-Missouri Border war, exploring the War in the West,...
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