‘Pistol Pete’ Eaton’s formative years were in Kansas
In the end, Oklahoma may claim him.
In the end, Oklahoma may claim him.
For 131 years, the CSS H.L. Hunley and its crew went unrecovered.
Earl Corder Sams was a Kansan who believed in looking for employees who shared the same Midwestern values that helped shape him.
“To the Secretary of War:
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.
Twelve historic sites along the Santa Fe Trail in Kansas were nominated this month for the National Register of Historic Places.
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.
Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words.
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 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”
The old-timers call it Lake Fegan.
His Potawatomi name was Nan-Wesh-Mah.
He was the other Brown in Bleeding Kansas, the one who didn’t approve of the things John Brown did.