 |
 Susanna
Madora Salter was elected by Argonia
as the first woman Mayor in Kansas in 1887.
Ironically, she was initially nominated by a
group of men hoping to discredit the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. |
 Brewster
Higley was a retired doctor living
in Smith Center when, in 1872, he jotted down a
poem he called Western Home."
A visitor to his home convinced him to set the
poem to music, and the resulting Home on the
Range became on the most popular western
songs ever published; it became the State Song of
Kansas in 1947. |
| M.
Étienne Venyard, Sieur de Bourgmont
led an expedition in the Missouri River Valley in
1724 that established relations with Kanza and
Paducah Indians in present-day Kansas. His treatment of the Indians he met gave
the French an advantage not enjoyed by any other
colonial power of the day -- totally peaceful
trade. |
 Nicodemus
is an unincorporated community of
about 50 inhabitants in eastern Graham County,
Kansas, and the only remaining community west of
the Mississippi River established by
African-Americans after the Civil War. |
 The
Battle
of Black Jack, which was fought
between forces led by John Brown and by Henry
Pate near present-day Baldwin City, Kansas, on
June 2, 1856, is considered by many historians to
be the first true battle of the Civil War. |
 Benjamin
Sanford Paulen was a successful
banker who served as Governor of Kansas from 1925
to 1929. During his term, a state
gasoline tax was enacted, cigarette sales were
legalized and taxed, etc. The most popular action
during his administration was establishment of a
kindergarten system in the state in 1927. |
 The
Wyandotte
Constitution, ratified by Kansas
voters on October 4, 1859, was the one under
which Kansas was admitted to the Union. The
constitution outlawed slavery, gave women equal
rights in divorce and child custody cases, and
set the boundaries where they are now. |
 William
Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody
was the youngest person ever to ride for the Pony
Express, the subject of a Ned Buntline dime
novel, and operator of a traveling wild west show
that featured full-scale Indian battles and
sharpshooting demonstrations. |
 Kathryn
O'Loughlin McCarthy was the first Democrat ever elected to the
U.S. Congress from her district, as well as the
first Kansas woman ever elected to that body. In
Congress, she fought for emergency assistance for
schools, supported the "New Deal," and
was an advocate for relaxing the 18th Amendment. |
 The Smoky
Hill River enters western Kansas and
flows about 500 miles before joining with the
Republican River to form the Kansas River at
Junction City. |
 Annie
Diggs was a supporter of the
Populist movement, temperance, and women's
suffrage. She wrote articles and lectured
extensively on behalf of each cause and served
with many national organizations devoted to them. |
