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Kansas From A to Z
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The great fields of wheat in Kansas
have earned it the nickname
Breadbasket of America. It is also one
of the top manufacturers of nonmilitary airplanes in the u.s. It also
produces oil and gas.
For hundreds of years Native
Americans farmed and hunted buffalo
there. The Spanish explored the area
but did not settle it. Later the French
claimed much of the area and sold it
to the U.S. as part of the Louisiana
Purchase.
In the years before the Civil War,
people called it "Bleeding Kansas"
because so many battles were fought
between pro- and anti-slavery groups.
Kansas voted to enter the Union as a
free state where slavery was illegal. It
became a state in 186l.
Today it is the 32nd most populated
state, with more than 21/2 million
people.
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Kansas is also known as the Sunflower
State. Millions of these giant flowers grow
throughout many areas. The seeds are
often made into cooking oil.
Agriculture is a top
industry, with about 90
percent of the land
area used for farming.
It is one of the main
wheat-growing and
cattle-raising states in
the U.S. Sorghum, hay
and corn are also top
farm products. Buffalo
meat is becoming
popular.
Kansas has
been called the
Air capital of
the world. Several aircraft companies,
such as Cessna, Boeing and LeaIjet,
began there. About 50 companies have
built aircraft there.
Famous pilots such as Amelia
Earhart came from Kansas. The MidAmerica Air Museum in Liberal has
one of the top collections of aircraft in
the U.S.
The~as
Barbed Wire
Museum. in La
Crosse shows how
important this
fencing was to
settling the Plains.
~awker City is the
site of the world's
largest ball of twine.
The Chisholm Trail
was built for
cowboys herding
~~~I:" big cattle herds
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. cattle were shipped
by train to the north and east.
Dodge City was legendary for its
Wild West cowboys
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Hickok, Doc
Holliday and Bat
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Some Famous Kansans
Dwight Eisenhower
Amelia Earhart
Walter P. Chrysler
Dwight
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Eisenhower served
as president of the
United States from
1953-1961, a time of
great tension
between the Soviet
Union and the
Dwight D.
United States.
Eisenhower
He first became
(1890-1969)
popular throughout
the country for leading the Allies in
their victory against the Nazis
during World War II.
He was born in Texas, but his
family moved to Abilene, Kan., when
he was a baby. He grew up there,
and worked to help his older brother
go to college.
Later, Dwight Eisenhower went to
college himself at the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point, N.Y.
He was so successful in the
military that President Franklin
Roosevelt named him commander of
the U.S. forces in Europe during
World War II.
As president, he sent in an Army
unit to protect black students trying
to integrate schools in Arkansas. He
also helped launch the U.s. space
program.
Amelia Earhart
broke many flying
records. She was the
first woman to fly
across the Atlantic,
although she was a
passenger then.
Amelia Earhart
She later became (1897-1937?)
the first woman to
fly across the Atlantic Ocean by
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Amelia was born in Atchison, Kan.
She and her sisters lived for years
with their grandparents in Atchison.
When she was about 10, they joined
their parents in Des Moines, Iowa.
She served as a nurse's aide
during World War I. Later, she left
college when she fell in love with
flying and began training to be a
pilot. She later worked as a social
worker in Boston.
In 1937, Amelia and a navigator,
Fred Noonan, decided to fly around
the world. But their plane
disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.
To this day, no one knows what
happened to them. Some believe
their plane crashed into the ocean.
Others believe they were captured by
the Japanese.
Walter P. Chrysler
founded the Chrysler
Corp., one of the top
U.s. auto
manufacturers.
He was born in
Walter Chrysler
Wamego, Kan., and
(1875-1940)
grew up in Ellis, Kan.
He became a machinist's apprentice
for the Union Pacific Railroad when
he was 17 and worked for railroad
companies for 20 years.
He later became president of Buick
Motor Car Co. and then vice
president at General Motors.
He took over a failing car company
that later became Chrysler Corp.
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Mini Spy ...
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Mini Spy and her friends are in a prairie grass preserve in
Kansas. See if you can find: • letter C • question mark • button
• fish • strainer • pineapple • spool of thread • three stars
• word MINI
• elephant head
• letter A
• sock
• duck
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• alligator
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Bob Dole
Bob Dole was
majority leader of the
U.s. Senate until he
left to run for
president in 1996. He
Robert Dole
lost that race to Bill
Clinton.
(1923 - )
He grew up in Russell, Kan.
After his bid for the presidency, he
worked for a Washington, D.C., law
firm. He also chaired several
committees, such as the International
Commission on Missing Persons. He
wrote a book, "Great Political Wit."
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KANSAS
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J D N U 0 H Y ERG W SAL T
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Go dot to dot and color this
famous Kansas flower.
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• 1 cup milk
• 2 bananas, cut into small pieces
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A Kid's Guide to the White
House is a terrific behind-the-scenes
look at a very special house.
Written with the cooperation of the
White House Historical Association, the
book is full of fun information, photos
(some in full color) and puzzles that
kids of all ages will enjoy.
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payable to: Anchws McMeeI Pubishing, P.O. Box 419242, Kansas City, MO 64141 .
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Meet Toby Keith
While growing up, Toby Keith would
listen to musicians perform at a club
his grandmother owned. That sparked
an interest in country music, and he
started playing the guitar when he was
8. Today he is a top country singer.
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Toby, 41, was born Toby Keith Covel
in Clinton, Okla. Before working on his singing career,
he worked in the oil industry and as a pro football
player.
He started off by playing in country-rock bands. He
then formed his own band. After deciding to become a
solo singer, he released his first album in 1993.
Toby and his wife, Tricia, have two daughters, Krystal
and Shelley, and a son, Stelen.
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All the following jokes have something in common. Can
you guess the common theme or category?
Lucy: What happens when you ask an
oyster a personal question?
Larry: It clams up!
Andy: Why couldn't the crab learn
to share?
Angela: Because it was shellfish!
Gary: Where did the octopus enlist?
Gina: The armed forces!
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More About Kansas
One of the biggest Salt
deposits in the world is
in Hutchinson, with
more than 300,000 tons
of rock salt mined there each year.
Topeka is the capital. It
is famous partly because of
the 1954 U.S. Supreme
Court decision, Brown
v. Topeka Board of
Education. This case
brought about the desegregation of
all U.S. public schools.
The Underground
_ ........L_"'_~ Railroad, which helped
~_-"-t slaves flee to the north,
was strong in Kansas.
John Brown, a fierce
~~~:=J abolitionist, led some of
OldCowtown
Museum re~p;:~~;iiPJi his earliest bloody battles to free the
slaves in Kansas.
creates life as it
Visitors flock to the
was when Wichita
was a wild cattle town along the
state for pheasant and
quail hunting, and for
Chisholm Trail in the 1870s.
crappie, bass, walleye
The only unchanged
and catfish fishing.
Pony Express station
Wichita is the
still at its original
largest city, with
location is the
Hollenberg Station near
about 345,000
people.
It
started
as
a cattle town in
Hanover.
the frontier, and grew to become a
The Quivira and
center for aviation.
Cheyenne Bottoms -wildlife
The Xiphactinus
refuges, both near Great
auduX is a fossil of
Bend, are gathering
a fish that swam in the oceans
places for hundreds of
covering Kansas about 8 million
species of birds,
including the bald eagle, ~ years ago. It and other fossils can be
seen at the Fick Fossil and History
whooping crane and peregrine
Museum in Oakley.
falcon.
A real Yellow brick
Cheyenne Bottoms attracts almost
road goes through Sedan.
half of the migrating shorebirds in
In the movie "The Wizard
North America.
of Oz," a cyclone whisks
More Russian space
Dorothy
away
from Kansas to a
objects than anywhere
magical land over the rainbow.
else in the Western world
are at the Kansas
The Sedgwick County
Zoo in Wichita has
Cosmosphere and Space Center in
Hutchinson. It also has the world's
more than 2,500
biggest collection of spacesuits.
animals in different habitats.
The Eisenhower
Fort Leavenworth
Center in Abilene is
is the oldest
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at President
fort west of the
Eisenhower's boyhood hom" e .
===ill1llt:Mtal. Mississippi River. It
Emporia is the site of
was built in 1827 and
the National Teachers
served as headquarters for the
Hall of Fame.
Buffalo Soldiers, or
The Flint Hills contain the only
African-American
cavalry.
original
Manhattan is the site
5j~~i~~ left
tallgrass
prairie
the American Museum
of
in the U.S.
of Baking. Exhibits
The Tallgrass
include bread baked in
Prairie National
Egypt 3,800 years ago.
Preserve is the
only national parkland preserving
One of the newest
this type of environment.
~~ NASCAR racetracks
in the U.S. opened in
The Greyhound Hall
2001 in Kansas City.
of Fame is in Abilene.
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Hays was
where Gen.
George Custer, Buffalo
Bill Cody and Wild Bill
Hickock served.
Independence was the
site of Laura Ingalls
Wilder's book "Little House
on the Prairie."
J ayhawks is the
nickname for Kansans.
Jayhawkers were people
who came to Kansas te
fight against its
becoming a slave state.
Kansa was the name of Native
Americans living in the
area, and where the
state got its name. The
name means "People of
the South Wind." Other
Native Americans include the Iowa,
Sac and Fox, Kickapoo, Potawatomie,
Wichita, Osage and Pawnee.
Site to see: www.traveIKS.com
Look through your newspaper for news
of your state.
Next week, The Mini Page is all about
fireflies.
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It's Kansas
From A to Z
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by Betty Debnam
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The Milli 1'alii"-S;;da~;s;~;iig~~- ~TMGus
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Kansas From A to Z
Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each
week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page's content and offer
activities that will help you" students reach them.
This week's standards:
• Students understand how historical events, people, places and situations contribute to our
understanding of the past. (Social Studies: Time, Continuity and Change)
• Students understand the interactions of people and their physical environment. (Social
Studies: People, Places and Environments)
Activities:
1. Draw a travel poster for Kansas showing the state's role in the Wild West.
2. Write a letter nominating one of your teachers for the National Teachers Hall of Fame in
Emporia.
3. Look through the newspaper for items that would make good birthday presents for famous
Kansas-connected people: Amelia Earhart, Dwight Eisenhower, Buffalo Bill Cody and
Laura Ingalls Wilder. Explain why you would choose these presents.
4. Draw three large Kansas sunflowers on a piece of paper. In the center of one sunflower,
write the words "slavery and civil rights." Write names, places and events related to
slavery and civil rights on the petals of the sunflower. Do the same with the other
sunflowers. In the center of one, write "flight," and on the other, "wildlife."
5. Use reference books and the Internet to learn more about the Buffalo Soldiers. Use these
questions to guide your research: Who were the Buffalo Soldiers? How were they different
from other soldiers? Where were they posted? What jobs did they have? What happened to
their units?
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
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Supersport: Marquis Grissom
Height: 5-11
Weight: 190
Birthdate: 4-17-67
College: Florida A&M
Marquis Grissom has played major league
baseball since 1989. He is in his second year
playing center field for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Before joining the Dodgers, he played for the
Milwaukee Brewers, the Cleveland Indians, the
Atlanta Braves and the Montreal Expos.
His best year was in 1996, when he batted .308 for the
Braves. Last year he had 21 home runs.
Marquis was born in Atlanta and is one of 15 children. He
and his wife, Daphne, have two sons and a daughter. He
donates time to youth baseball teams, the Boys and Girls
Clubs, and the YMCA in Atlanta. His hobbies include fishing
and drawing.
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