Did Prohibition Work?
Prohibition is when you ban something from people. The prohibition of alcohol began in 1920-1933. Although people stopped drinking...
The Speakeasy, and KC in the 1920's
The 1920s. A roaring time for the alcohol industry, despite the fact the selling of liquor was banned nationwide. Speakeasies brought...
Mr. Crumbine and Tuberculosis
Have you ever heard about Samuel Crumbine? Chances are you haven’t, though you should be quite thankful for what he did. Do you know...
Kansas, and Immigrant Towns
Spanish were the first recorded explorers to “discover” the Americas. Christopher Columbus along with a few men wanted to explore the...
Exodusters: The First Kansas Refugees
An “Exoduster” is name given to a group of African-Americans who traveled from the South, mostly to the West. Slavery had just came to an...
Joseph "The Real" McCoy
“The Real McCoy.” You’ve all heard the saying. But where does it come from? Cowboy, cattle baron, and founder of the cattle trade in...
Satanta.
Satanta’s original name was Set-t’ainte or “White Bear” as a child. (The whites Anglicized the name to ‘Satanta.) When he was a boy he...
Fred Harvey. The first restaurant chain
What was the first restaurant chain? What do you think the first restaurant chain was, some might say McDonalds, some might say Wendys,...
Homestead Act=Free Land!
Could you imagine getting 160 acres of “free” land by an act called The Homestead Act? It was an act passed by Congress in 1862 that...
From Sand Creek to Medicine Lodge
The Native Americans of the Great Plains and the white US Government were often not on good terms. They have a lot of little...
