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A former Kansas Historical Marker sign along U.S. Route 40 described it as follows: Several hundred years ago, perhaps more than a thousand, this valley was inhabited by men whose average height was probably well over six feet. These were not the indians of quivira, whose "7-foot warriors" Coronado described in 1541, but an even earlier people.
"Little Foot" (Stw 573) is the nickname given to a nearly complete Australopithecus fossil skeleton found in 1994–1998 in the cave system of Sterkfontein, South Africa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Lansing Correctional Facility (LCF) is a state prison operated by the Kansas Department of Corrections.LCF is located in Lansing, Kansas, in Leavenworth County.LCF, along with the Federal Bureau of Prison's United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, the United States Army Corrections Command's United States Disciplinary Barracks, and Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility in Fort ...
A former prison employee, hoisting engineer Frank Young of Lansing, is seen working in this 1930 photo operating the coal mine shaft hoist in the Kansas State Penitentiary that carried inmates up ...
The front cover of the Kansas City Star newspaper, engraved on a copper plate, is displayed on stage during the unveiling ceremony of a 100-year-old time capsule at the National WWI Museum and ...
The Tobias-Thompson Complex, also known as the Little River Archeological District, is a complex of archaeological sites on the banks of the Little Arkansas River near Geneseo, Kansas, United States. The complex is an important set of sites that is one of the few in the region bridging the periods of prehistory and European contact, with a ...
Trussell was found guilty by a jury and sentenced in 2007 to at least 37 years in prison before he could be eligible for parole after his wife and Harrod’s took plea deals and testified against ...
The Trail of Death was declared a Regional Historic Trail in 1994 by the state legislatures of Indiana, Illinois, and Kansas; Missouri passed similar legislation in 1996. As of 2013 [update] , 80 Trail of Death markers were located along the route in all four states, at every 15 to 20 miles where the group had camped between each day's walk.