Green fields are an identifying feature of Doniphan County in the northeast corner of Kansas.
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The state of Missouri can be seen from White Cloud in the northeast corner of Kansas. (Aug. 28, 2012)
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The town of White Cloud in the far northeast corner of Kansas if bounded by the Missouri River.
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White Cloud is one of the northeastern most towns in Kansas. (Aug. 28, 2012)
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Row crops of corn and soybeans surround the Glacial Hills around White Cloud, Kansas. (Aug. 28, 2012)
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Portrait engraving of Alexander W. Doniphan copied from Doniphan's Expedition by John Taylor Hughes. Doniphan was a Colonel of the First regiment Missouri volunteers and a Liberty, Mo., lawyer. Doniphan County, Kansas, and the town of Doniphan were named for Alexander W. Doniphan.
Date: Between 1845 and 1847
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Doniphan County, Kansas is made up of the rolling Glacial Hills. (Aug. 28, 2012)
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A paddlewheel steamboat in Doniphan County, Kansas, traveling on the Missouri River. A fishing boat and several men are also in view.
Date: 1870s or 1880s
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Fred Massey store, Iowa Point, Kansas
A birds-eye view of the Fred Massey store, Iowa Point, Kansas.
Date: Between 1900 and 1905
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A boy fishes along the banks of the Missouri River near White Cloud in the northeast corner of Kansas. (Aug. 28, 2012)
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Two boys fish along the banks of the Missouri River near White Cloud in the northeast corner of Kansas. (Aug. 28, 2012)
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Rusted metal parts lie out on a table along Main Street in White Cloud, Kan. (Aug. 28, 2012)
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The Missouri River near the town of White Cloud in the northeast corner of Kansas. (Aug. 28, 2012)
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The Ma-Hush-Kah Museum in White Cloud, one of the northeastern most towns in Kansas. (Aug. 28, 2012)
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Landscape showing the Arikaree Breaks in the far northwest corner of Kansas.
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The Salem Lutheran Church in rural Cheyenne County as a storm approaches.
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A metal sculpture of a Native American on horseback was created years ago by Tobe Zweygardt, Cheyenne County historian, artist and farmer. The metal sculpture helps mark the site where Cheyenne Indians sought refuge following the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado.
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Bird City in Cheyenne County in the northwest corner of Kansas
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Putting up hay near Bird City in the northwest corner of Kansas
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Horse Thief Cave is one of several caves in the area. Although must of the cave have caved in over the years and now forms a natural bridge, it still shows the site where horses were hidden by thieves during the 1870s.
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Signs on the Arikaree Break route note historic events and sites that occurred on the land.
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Tobe Zweygardt, age 96, stands beside a collection of metal sculptures he created in front of his St. Francis, Ks. Home.
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Other than a few signs marking the area, the area known as the Arikaree Breaks on the Kansas Nebraska border looks the same in either state
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The Arikaree Breaks in Cheyenne County is a mix of rugged landscape of canyons, caves, valleys, creeks and mesas. The breaks are only two to three miles wide but stretch miles from Rawlins County into Cheyenne and into parts of Colorado and Nebraska.They were formed thousands of years ago by windblown silt called loess washed from the face of the Rocky Mountains and onto the plains of western Kansas. Rainfall is less than 20 inches a year in this part of Kansas. It is also often coldest, snowiest corner of the state.
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Folk art sign depicting the Arikaree Breaks in the far northwest corner of the Cheyenne Counties.
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A bee gathers nectar from a morning glory growing near a prickly pear cactus.
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An abandoned farm house in Cheyenne County is surrounded by prairie, sage and cattle.
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Helene Landenberger of St. Francis shows a visitor the depths of the canyons in the Arikaree Breaks.
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Tobe Zweygardt, age 96, tells the history of the Salem Lutheran Church. Built in 1926 by German Russian immigrants, the congregation spoke mostly German and for decades men and women sat on separate sides of the aisle. It was the church where he was baptized.
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Sand dunes encroach on the Cimarron Grasslands in southwest Kansas. Severe drought over the past few years have been tough on the area.
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A small bird perches on the dry stem of a yucca on the in the Cimarron National Grassland in Morton County.
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Point of Rocks in the Cimarron National Grassland in Morton County was once a lookout point on the Santa Fe Trail Indians and traders.
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This photograph depicts an approaching dust storm in Morton County, Kansas, during the 1930s. Morton County, in the southwest corner of the state, was among the hardest hit areas during the Dust Bowl. Dust storms, such as the one depicted here, could blow for a full day, coating everything in their path with a layer of dirt.
Date: Between 1933 and 1937
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A bullsnake meanders in the sun along a sand road in the Cimarron National Grasslands.
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An elk steps out of the underbrush in the Cimarron National Grassland in Morton County. Though rare now, Elk once roamed across southwest Kansas.
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After a brief rain storm in the Cimarron National Grasslands, a turtle takes refuge in a sandy mud puddle.
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This steam tractor is on display near the Cimarron River at a camping spot in the Cimarron National Grasslands. The giant tractor was uncovered in the river bed in 2003 when a new bridge was constructed.
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An elk steps out of the underbrush in the Cimarron National Grassland in Morton County. Though rare now, Elk once roamed across southwest Kansas.
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View from Point of Rocks, a stopping point along the historic Santa Fe Trail, located within the Cimarron National Grasslands.
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This photograph depicts an approaching dust storm in Morton County, Kansas, during the 1930s. Morton County, in the southwest corner of the state, was among the hardest hit areas during the Dust Bowl. Dust storms, such as the one depicted here, could blow for a full day, coating everything in their path with a layer of dirt.
Date: Between 1933 and 1937
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A small bird perches on the dry stem of a yucca on the in the Cimarron National Grassland in Morton County.
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Sunrise at Point of Rocks on the Cimarron National Grassland in Morton County, it once a lookout point on the Santa Fe Trail Indians and traders.
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Yucca plants start to flower on the Cimarron Grasslands in southwest Kansas.
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Remnants from drought and last yearÕs fire that swept through the heart of the grasslands and neighboring land, wiping out 17,000 acres of prairie and cropland are shown in the trees along the Cimarron River in far southwest Kansas.
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Nancy Brewer, rangeland management specialist for the U.S.D.A. Forest Service in the Cimarron National Grassland, points out the types of prairie grass on the land.
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Nancy Brewer and Dale Fife, district ranger for the grasslands, examine the quality of grass in the Cimarron National Grasslands.
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A bullsnake meanders in the sun along a sand road in the Cimarron National Grasslands.
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Eagle-Picher Mining and Smelting Company, Galena, Kansas - Photograph of Eagle-Picher miners drilling into a mining wall.
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A photograph of the Morning Star Mine in Galena, Kansas.
Date: Between 1880 and 1910 v
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Today a limestone slap marks where Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma join. The maker sets at the end of a small road.
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Route 66 still runs through a small slice of south east Kansas is marked by several signs along the route.
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Galena, Ks. once known for its mining is now the home to Vogel Family Vineyards where harvest of the grapes was underway. Workers remove nets used to keep birds from the ripening grapes.
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Dubbed "Big Brutus," the enormous power shovel towered 15 stories high and weighed 11 million pounds. Purchased in 1962 from the Bucyrus-Erie Company of Milwaukee, the machine's cost was $6.5 million. To ship the shovel to Cherokee County, 150 railroad cars were needed, and once there it took a year to build. The shovel could move 150 tons of coal in one bite. Brutus is part of the mining legacy in southeastern Kansas.
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The years have taken their toll on a Route 66 sign in downtown Baxter Springs, Ks. The historic highway ran from Chicago to Los Angeles clipping the southeast corner of Kansas.
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Today a limestone slap marks where Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma join. The maker sets at the end of a small road.
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A stone marker constructed in the 30's marks the Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma board.
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A stone marker constructed in the 30's marks the Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma board.
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Dubbed "Big Brutus," the enormous power shovel towered 15 stories high and weighed 11 million pounds. Purchased in 1962 from the Bucyrus-Erie Company of Milwaukee, the machine's cost was $6.5 million. To ship the shovel to Cherokee County, 150 railroad cars were needed, and once there it took a year to build. The shovel could move 150 tons of coal in one bite. Brutus is part of the mining legacy in southeastern Kansas.
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Dubbed "Big Brutus," the enormous power shovel towered 15 stories high and weighed 11 million pounds. Purchased in 1962 from the Bucyrus-Erie Company of Milwaukee, the machine's cost was $6.5 million. To ship the shovel to Cherokee County, 150 railroad cars were needed, and once there it took a year to build. The shovel could move 150 tons of coal in one bite. Brutus is part of the mining legacy in southeastern Kansas.
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