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Southeast Kansas is located in the tallgrass prairie ecosystem of North America. Originally inhabited by several Native American tribes , frontier towns largely dependent on cattle ranching , and mining , were wracked by violence over the issue of slavery both before and during the American Civil War (see Bleeding Kansas ).
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 February 2025. U.S. state This article is about the U.S. state. For other uses, see Kansas (disambiguation). State in the United States Kansas State Flag Seal Nickname(s): The Sunflower State (official); The Wheat State; America's Heartland Motto(s): Ad astra per aspera (Latin) To the stars through ...
Media related to Newspapers of Kansas at Wikimedia Commons; Kansas Press Association - has a full list of daily and weekly newspapers that are KPA members. Penny Abernathy, "The Expanding News Desert: Kansas", Usnewsdeserts.com, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century)
Harry Hines Woodring (1890–1967), Kansas Governor and Secretary of War under Franklin Roosevelt; Elk City; Robert M. Wright (1840–1915), member of Kansas House of Representatives; a founder of Dodge City [2] Ron Wyden (born 1949), Oregon Senator; Wichita
Oletha Faust-Goudeau, Kansas state legislator [260] Gail Finney (1959–2022), Kansas state legislator [ 261 ] Kent Frizzell (1929–2016), Kansas Attorney General [ 262 ]
Crawford County is a county located in Southeast Kansas. Its county seat is Girard, [2] and its most populous city is Pittsburg. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 38,972. [1] The county was named in honor of Samuel Crawford, [3] the 3rd governor of Kansas. Pittsburg State University is located in Crawford County.
Cherokee County is a U.S. county located in Southeast Kansas. Its county seat is Columbus , [ 2 ] and its most populous city is Baxter Springs . As of the 2020 census , the county population was 19,362. [ 1 ]
Treece is a ghost town in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States, [1] and part of the historic Tri-State Mining District. As of the 2010 census , the city population was 138. [ 3 ] As of May 2012 the city was abandoned and most buildings and other facilities demolished due to pervasive problems with lead pollution resulting from past mining.