Roadside Kansas

Author : Rex C. Buchanan,James R. McCauley
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780700617005

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Roadside Kansas by Rex C. Buchanan,James R. McCauley Pdf

Two decades after its first publication, Roadside Kansas remains the premier guide to the geology, natural resources, landmarks, and landscapes along nine of the Sunflower State's major highways. During that span, however, many aspects of the Kansas landscape changed: the growth of some towns and near disappearance of others, the expansion of highways, the development of industry. Even the rocks themselves changed in places as erosion took its relentless toll. More broadly, there have been changes in the science of geology. This new edition reflects all of these changes and thoroughly updates the previous edition in ways that reinforce its preeminent status. Covering more than 2,600 miles, Buchanan and McCauley organize their book by highway and milepost markers, so that modern-day explorers can follow the road logs easily, learning about the land as they travel through the state. Featuring more than 100 photographs, drawings, and maps, the book also provides deft descriptions of fascinating contemporary and historical features to be seen all across Kansas. Especially in an economic era that has encouraged all of us to travel closer to home, the new edition is sure to be a hit with families from Kansas and the region who decide to explore and learn more about the state and its distinctive wonders. They'll discover what Buchanan and McCauley have known for a long time: Kansas highways provide much more than passage to Colorado or some other state. They are destinations in their own right. Published for the Kansas Geological Survey

Author : Rex Buchanan,J. R. McCauley
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015012593326

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Roadside Kansas by Rex Buchanan,J. R. McCauley Pdf

The perfect glove-compartment companion, is a guide to the geology, natural resources, and landscapes along nine of the state's major highways. Covering more than 2,600 miles, Buchanan and McCauley have provided mile-by-mile descriptions of interesting features, both contemporary and historical, to be seen all across the state. The information is organized by highway, so that modern-day explorers can follow the road logs easily, learning about the land they travel through. Of the tradition of roadside geologic descriptions, Buchanan and McCauley write: "In some ways highways provide convenient access to geology because roads often cut through hills, exposing formations never seen before ... For many geologist, road construction is an occasion akin to Christmas or the Fourth of July." The nine highways, which criss-cross Kansas, were chosen for a variety of reasons. Some, like I-70, I-35, and the Kansas Turnpike, carry heavy traffic; some, like U.S. Highways 69 and 36, are the main highways in various parts of the state; others, like U.S. Highways 160 and 83, cut through some of the state's most interesting geology; and one, U.S. Highway 56, was picked because of its history--the road parallels the historic Santa Fe Trail for much of its route, passing the site of old forts and Indian battles. This unique guidebook combines geological, historical, and cultural information with more than 100 photographs, drawings, and maps. Presented in a refreshingly nontechnical way. It is sure to appeal to tourist and native Kansas alike.

Author : Michael J. Everhart
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780253027153

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Oceans of Kansas by Michael J. Everhart Pdf

“Excellent . . . Those who are interested in vertebrate paleontology or in the scientific history of the American midwest should really get a copy.” —PalArch’s Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs. Giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaurs, pteranodons, and birds with teeth all flourished in and around these shallow waters. Their abundant and well-preserved remains were sources of great excitement in the scientific community when first discovered in the 1860s and continue to yield exciting discoveries 150 years later. Michael J. Everhart vividly captures the history of these startling finds over the decades and re-creates in unforgettable detail these animals from our distant past and the world in which they lived—above, within, and on the shores of America’s ancient inland sea. “Oceans of Kansas remains the best and only book of its type currently available. Everhart’s treatment of extinct marine reptiles synthesizes source materials far more readably than any other recent, nontechnical book-length study of the subject.” —Copeia “[The book] will be most useful to fossil collectors working in the local region and to historians of vertebrate paleontology . . . Recommended.” —Choice

Author : Pam Grout
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762765799

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Kansas Curiosities by Pam Grout Pdf

Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Sunflower State has to offer! Whether you’re a born-and-raised Kansan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Kansas Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Pam Grout takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Sunflower State. Visit the Museum of the World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things—and get your own largest ball starter kit. Meet more chainsaw-wielding, glow-in-the-dark-scrap-metal-zoo-building, grapefruit-peel-sculpting, papier-mâché-mixing, porcelain-pig-painting grassroots artists than you can shake a stick at! Get a load of Big Brutus, a sixteen-story coal shovel that has become a popular tourist attraction; and discover the thrill of an indoor hurricane—it’ll blow you away.

Author : United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129194465

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A Subject Bibliography from Highway Safety Literature by United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Germplasm resources, Plant
ISBN : UCBK:C040029679

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Plant Inventory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rex Buchanan
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCBK:C103270881

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Kansas Geology by Rex Buchanan Pdf

A profusely illustrated nontechnical survey of the state's geological landforms and features.

Author : George Frazier
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780700624829

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The Last Wild Places of Kansas by George Frazier Pdf

Since the last wild bison found refuge on the back of a nickel, the public image of natural Kansas has progressed from Great American Desert to dust bowl to flyover country that has been landscaped, fenced, and farmed. But look a little harder, George Frazier suggests, and you can find the last places where tenacious stretches of prairie, forest, and wetland cheat death and incubate the DNA of lost, wild America. Documenting three years spent roaming the state in search of these hidden treasures, The Last Wild Places of Kansas is Frazier's idiosyncratic and eye-opening travelogue of nature's secret holdouts in the Sunflower State. These are places where extirpated mammalian species are making comebacks; where flying squirrels leap between centuries-old trees lit by the unearthly green glow of foxfire; where cold springs feed ancient watercress pools; where the ice moon paints the Smoky Hills with memories of the buffalo, wolf, and the lonesome rattle of false indigo; where the blue lid of the sky forms a vacuum seal over treeless pastel hills, orange in winter; where bluestem rises. Some are impossible to find on maps. Most are magnificently bereft of anything beneficial to 99.9 percent of modern America. True wildernesses they may not be, but at the correct angle of light, when the wind blows pollen carrying biological memories of the glaciers, these places are a crack between the worlds, portals to the lost buffalo wilderness. En route Frazier takes us from the unexpected wilds of the Kansas City suburbs to the Cimarron National Grassland in the far southwestern corner of the state. He visits ancient springs, shares a beer with prairie dog hunters, and fails in his mission to canoe the upper Marais des Cygnes—a trip that requires permission from every landowner on the route. Along the way we encounter a host of curious characters—ranchers, farmers, Native Americans, explorers, wildlife experts, and outdoor enthusiasts—all fellow travelers in a quest to know, preserve, and share the last wild places of Kansas.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCBK:C051617580

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Leaflet by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jerry L. Martin
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 087972269X

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Henry L. Brunk and Brunk's Comedians by Jerry L. Martin Pdf

Tent repertoire theatre as a form of popular entertainment caught on in the late 19th century, had its heyday in the 1920s, and was finished by the Depression and World War II gasoline rationing. The author examines this rise and fall in context of an increasingly urbanized society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Kansas
ISBN : UCSC:32106018394723

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Kansas Heritage by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : MINN:30000011631961

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Highway Safety Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ronald D. Parks
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806145754

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The Darkest Period by Ronald D. Parks Pdf

Before their relocation to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, the Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation near Council Grove, Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. In The Darkest Period, Ronald D. Parks tells the story of those years of decline in Kanza history following the loss of the tribe’s original homeland in northeastern and central Kansas. Parks makes use of accounts by agents, missionaries, journalists, and ethnographers in crafting this tale. He addresses both the big picture—the effects of Manifest Destiny—and local particulars such as the devastating impact on the tribe of the Santa Fe Trail. The result is a story of human beings rather than historical abstractions. The Kanzas confronted powerful Euro-American forces during their last years in Kansas. Government officials and their policies, Protestant educators, predatory economic interests, and a host of continent-wide events affected the tribe profoundly. As Anglo-Americans invaded the Kanza homeland, the prairie was plowed and game disappeared. The Kanzas’ holy sites were desecrated and the tribe was increasingly confined to the reservation. During this “darkest period,” as chief Allegawaho called it in 1871, the Kanzas’ Neosho reservation population diminished by more than 60 percent. As one survivor put it, “They died of a broken heart, they died of a broken spirit.” But despite this adversity, as Parks’s narrative portrays, the Kanza people continued their relationship with the land—its weather, plants, animals, water, and landforms. Parks does not reduce the Kanzas’ story to one of hapless Indian victims traduced by the American government. For, while encroachment, disease, and environmental deterioration exerted enormous pressure on tribal cohesion, the Kanzas persisted in their struggle to exercise political autonomy while maintaining traditional social customs up to the time of removal in 1873 and beyond.

Author : United States. Farm Credit Administration. Cooperative Research and Service Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Agricultural credit
ISBN : CORNELL:31924071822203

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Research, Service, and Education Series by United States. Farm Credit Administration. Cooperative Research and Service Division Pdf

Author : Florence Colfax Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130678043

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Marketing Fruits, Vegetables, and Nuts by Florence Colfax Bell Pdf