Kansas’ role in the fight for freedom is well established. The Bleeding Kansas moniker accurately describes the era in the state’s history where pro-slavery and abolitionist activists clashed. This time in the state was a predictor of the Civil War, showing that the decision to abolish slavery…
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Talk about wide-open spaces. The southwest quadrant of Kansas (22 counties) is no faux frontier—it’s the real deal. The region carries on the centuries-old legacy of explorers and pioneers who trekked its expanse. In 1865, when the U.S. Army established Fort Dodge along the Santa Fe Trail (near…
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As my children grow, so does their stockpile of toys. When holidays and birthdays pass, I find…
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I knew little about my state’s capital city, Topeka, KS, until recently. Growing up, the one-hour…
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Kansas’ prime spots for family playdates include zoos, sports venues, museums and water parks. You can even travel through time, air and outer space. ANIMALS GO WILD They’re baaack! Dinosaurs roamed prehistoric Kansas, and now they’ve returned to the scene, thanks to Field Station: Dinosaurs, new in…
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The Old West welcomes new generations to relive the Dodge City area’s glory days and play in the sand. In the 1870s and 1880s, the cattle business made Dodge City a rough-and-tumble boomtown. Its saloons, gambling halls and brothels drew soldiers, buffalo hunters, railroad workers, drifters and…
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With a riverfront museum district and the beautifully restored Old Town neighborhood, it’s easy to turn a Wichita weekend into a getaway packed with new discoveries. Park the car and explore Wichita’s compact Old Town—and beyond—on foot. Stroll more than 30 theme gardens at Botanica or follow the…
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Kansas is unlike any other state in the U.S. It houses fields upon fields of sunflowers, has numerous museums throughout the state dedicated to baseball, art and jazz, and—here’s a kicker—remnants of an 80-million-year-old inland sea. A gorgeous sunset shot of a field of sunflowers in the late…
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