Kansas

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....

Death is about to descend upon tiny Muleshoe, Kansas. Mike Bishop has arrived in the sleepy little town on a mission to recover a legendary cache of rare gold coins....

Eat Like a Local: Kansas City offers the inside scoop on the food scene in Kansas City. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and its culture on a single plate....

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

Join J., Lenny, and a whole new cast of characters, guides, and teachers on an epic, life-changing road trip that gets you up close and personal with both the outer and inner limits of your own spiritual badass heart and soul....

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 this final hearing, attorney Pedro Irigonegaray states the case for teaching evolution exclusively....

Ten outlaws, ten states, ten stories of 19th-century fugitives remarkable because the events really took place....

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....

Tommy’s 13th birthday is coming up. Much to his dismay, his parents are taking him on a trip from Kansas City to Mt. Hope, Kansas to spend his big day with his grandparents.

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

No person excited greater emotion in Kansas than James Henry Lane, the US senator who led a volunteer brigade in 1861-1862, fighting numerous skirmishes and liberating hundreds of slaves....

Feel the uncertainty, doubt, and danger faced by the pioneer women of Kansas as they defend their homes and pray for their men during the Civil War....

"We do not take a trip; a trip takes us," John Steinbeck noted in his 1962 classic, Travels with Charley....

Sam Spearman—wealthy, elderly, and irascible—is a man on a mission. The mighty Central Pacific Railroad proposes to abandon tracks that serve his Kansas grain elevators. In this story, you’ll discover that railroading, whether viewed from locomotive cabs or corporate boardrooms, was never dull....

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....

Andrew Daniels is a seemingly normal man from central Kansas who is about to lose everything he has worked for in life....

A radical abolitionist, John Brown organized a small band of like-minded followers and fought with the armed groups of pro-slavery men in Kansas for several months....

Charline Light lives in Kansas. A pretty bad town in Kansas, with crack houses all over the place....

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)....