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This book highlights the importance of Kansas' opera houses to the cultural and social development of Kansas during the last half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century. The types of civic and cultural entertainments that occurred in these structures and the actors who graced their stages are discussed. A detailed listing of 900 opera houses located in more than 400 Kansas communities and the activities that were held there, from...
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Hometown Memories, LLC
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Stories of life in the earlier years of the 20th century in Northwest and North Central Kansas contributed by 354 Kansans. Each tale is written from the viewpoint of those who actually experienced this time in our history. The table of contents includes an alphabetical list of all contributors and two indexes are sorted by hometown and year of birth.
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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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University Press of Kansas
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"Jim Hoy blends history, folklore, and memoir to conjure for readers the tallgrass prairies of his boyhood in a book that recalls the ranching life and the people who lived it. Here are cowboys and outlaws, rodeo stars and runaway horses, ordinary folks and the stuff of legends. Hoy introduces readers to the likes of Lou Hart, a top hand with the Crocker Brothers from 1906 to 1910, whose poetic paean to ranch life circulated orally for fifty years...
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