Sacred springs now covered by Glen Elder Reservoir
Early Indian tribes believed some places were more sacred than others and were the spots where humans and the supernatural mingled.
On this date – 124 years ago – at high noon, the world exploded into Indian Territory, now Oklahoma.
Early Indian tribes believed some places were more sacred than others and were the spots where humans and the supernatural mingled.
It has been nearly nine decades since Emily Morgan, a Kansas native, drew the attention of the world and was nicknamed the “Angel of the Yukon.”
More than a century ago, an Indiana schoolteacher came to Kansas to conduct a scientific experiment that would eventually involve the U.S. government.
He was the man who mortally wounded President Abraham Lincolns assassin and was perhaps one of the most colorful and certifiably insane figures to emerge in Kansas history.
Its been 34 years since the nations news was filled with reports of feisty farmers.
Earl Corder Sams was a Kansan who believed in looking for employees who shared the same Midwestern values that helped shape him.
Anytime you use Wikipedia, think Wichita.
He was known simply as “Aitch.”
Randall, the narrator of the viral Honey Badger video on the Internet, announced earlier this summer he thinks a Honey Badger ought to run for president and form a Honey Badger political party.
In her day, Madge Blake had a recognizable face and voice.
Solomon Butler, who spent part of his childhood in Wichita, was the first African-American from Kansas to compete in the Olympics.
By Old West standards, the age of the gunfighter was from 1865 to 1900.
Jerry Bittle, creator of the nationally-syndicated comic strips “Geech” and “Shirley and Son,” capitalized on a life that was as laid-back as possible.
Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words.
Catholic Charities of Kansas has launched a statewide campaign to promote the values and benefits of marriage.
Sometimes name recognition is everything.
In the world of horseshoe pitching, there were few better than Ted Allen.
An experimental test pilot for 27 years at Boeing, Wichitas Chuck Fisher became a media sensation in 1964 when he was piloting a B-52 bomber about 500 feet over mountainous terrain in southeastern Colorado and the bomber suddenly hit wind turbulence.
“The baseball mania has reached us. What with the Indian scare, the drought, the chinch bugs and the grasshopper, truly we are badly afflicted; but as a supplement to this grand drama of misery our callow youths have inaugurated the “National Game” in the midst of us. What shall we do to circumvent their match-inations? Answer Eldorado Club, ditto Sedgwick Club-ergo Senegambian Club, or any club-footed grangers”