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Culled from Library of Congress and Kansas Historical Society collections, the nearly 200 striking black and white images trace a progression from "Bleeding Kansas", a period of violent struggle between free-state abolitionists and pro-slavery sympathizers, to the state's many contributions to westward expansion, railroads, agricultures, and America at war.
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Tate Publishing & Enterprises LLC
Pub. Date
c2015
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English
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"Have you ever dreamed of being a cowboy? Who of us hasn't? The mere mention of it brings to mind images of boots and saddles, horses and cattle, and being in the great outdoors. This much is true, cowboy stories never cease to hold our attention, and "The Vanishing Cowboy" is an especially captivating narrative. Weaving a historical text with contemporary photographs taken on location at some of the largest and last-remaining working ranches in the...
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University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner also documented the construction of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division (later the Kansas Pacific Railroad), across Kansas beginning in 1867. This book presents recent photographs by John R. Charlton of the scenes Gardner recorded, paired with the Gardner originals and accompanied by James E. Sherow's discussion. Like most rephotography projects, this one provides fascinating information...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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The first African American photographer to be hired full time by Life magazine, Gordon Parks was often sent on assignments involving social issues that his white colleagues were not asked to cover. In 1950 he returned on one such assignment to his hometown of Fort Scott in southeastern Kansas: he was to provide photographs for a piece on segregated schools and their impact on black children in the years prior to Brown v. Board of Education. Parks...
11) Northern Kansas Division, Missouri Pacific Lines: formerly the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad
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produced by Golden Belt Printing
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Sections of this 150-year-old road are still in operation today. The Northern Kansas Division of the Missouri Pacific was originally a pioneer land grant road that built from Atchison, Kansas, westward in the late 1860s to Waterville, Kansas. The 235-page volume provides a good reference for dates, major activities and changes in the operation from day one. Includes Missouri Pacific employee interviews, more than 250 historic and current photos, maps,...
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