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A HISTORY OF KANSAS
BY
ANNA E. ARNOLD
AUTHOR OF CIVICS AND CITIZENSHIP
PUBLISHED BY
THE STATE OF KANSAS
IMRI ZUMWALT, State Printer
TOPEKA, 1919
7-6552
Copyright 1914, Anna E. Arnold
Copyright 1919 (Revised), Anna E. Arnold
All Rights Reserved
PREFACE
No State has a history better calculated to inspirepatriotism in its people than has Kansas. In this factlies the greatest reason for teaching Kansas History inthe schools. A knowledge of the difficulties that havebeen met and conquered in building the State will createin the minds of the boys and girls a greater respect forthe sturdy qualities of the pioneers; it will give them awholesome sense of the great cost at which the ease andcomfort of to-day have been purchased; it will stimulatein them a desire to live up to the past.
If the study of Kansas History is to accomplish theseresults, the subject must be presented in such a way asto arouse the interest of the pupils. They must feel itsreality. They must catch its spirit.
With the hope of fulfilling in some measure these requirements,this book has been prepared with the followingaims constantly in mind: to make it, as nearly aspossible, a narrative; to select from the wealth of materialat hand such subject matter as is within the comprehensionof children, eliminating such matter as can be fully understoodand appreciated only by mature minds; to presentthe general movement of the State’s progress rather thana mass of unrelated facts. Only so much detail has beenused as is necessary to a clear understanding of events.The purpose has not been to chronicle a multitude ofevents, but rather to show forth what manner of men and 6women were the builders of our State, what motivesactuated them, what conditions surrounded the