Kansas

Andrew Carnegie funded 59 public libraries in Kansas in the early 20th century, but it was frontier women who organized waffle suppers, minstrel shows, and women's baseball games to buy books to fill them....

Nebraska, 1876. The western frontier is wild and needs a lawman who can tame it. Joe Mundy is such a man....

When Matt Jorgensen learns that the man who helped him hone his deadly skills with a pistol is gunned down, he vows to bring the killer to justice....

Kansas City, 1922: a hub of jazz music and the mob. While the Kansas side of the city had Carrie Nation and prohibition, on the Missouri side the Irish Pendergast brothers kept the liquor flowing....

Follow the widowed Margaret Ralston Kennedy in this second book of the Trail of Thread series, as she travels with eight of her thirteen children from Ohio to the Territory of Kansas in 1855....

Bootlegger’s Friend is based on the true story of Johnny Lazia, a politician who is admired and respected in 1920s Kansas City. He meets Giovanni Blando, recent immigrant from Sicily and nephew of Lazia’s mentor. Giovanni becomes a bootlegger and Johnny’s closest friend....

The story begins with the opening of the Kansas-Nebraska Territory in 1864, and follows a family of pioneers who leave their comfortable farm and ...

At seventeen, Annie Hope Brown is a woman in 1859 when she conspires against the US government with her infamous father, John Brown, and his Kansas Raiders....

This four-generation saga, written with Mickey Herskowitz, begins with Richard Grimes, who became a sea captain at the astonishing age of 21, and made the first of his fortunes carrying passengers from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, to the West Indies....

When Cotton Cooper was an infant, his mother had him resting on a goose down pillow under an oak tree. The tree was struck by lightning. As a result, his hair is white (the color of cotton)....

In 1990, Smith County, Kansas, where Lebanon is located, was a thriving region. By the late 1990s the population had dwindled to 4,500, having suffered a drop of 150% in 100 years....

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The Civil War is best remembered for the big battles and the legendary generals who fought on both sides, like Robert E. Lee facing off against Ulysses S. Grant in 1864....

Can the couple weather the embarrassment of Julip’s past, or will the truth tear their marriage apart? Jasper Kerns, a carpenter and furniture ...

Taking sides doesn't lessen the chances of a violent death, it just determines who is going to try and kill you....

After Second Kansas the world waits for the other shoe to drop. The Kresh have come twice and been held off by Colin Rourke and the Soulguard. Defenses are growing, and the forces of Earth are arming themselves for war....

Presented here are three of the most popular children's books of all time: The Wizard of Oz, The Reluctant Dragon, and Five Children and It....

In Gone to Kansas, 1855, young Hiram Lockwood left a broken family and St. Louis to seek his fortunes on the frontier in Kansas Territory and on the Santa Fe Trail. In Kansas 1856, Hiram is shedding his greenhorn ways and gaining experience as a muleskinner and stage driver....

In Kansas and Missouri, the War Between the States started long before Fort Sumter and continued on throughout the war....

A subcommittee of the Kansas Board of Education holds hearings on whether the state's science curriculum should permit alternate theories to be taught alongside evolution....