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Kansas and the West: New Perspectives. Edited by Rita Napier. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. viii + 416 pp. Photographs, figures, notes, index. $40.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
It's hard to travel the highways and byways of the Great Plains saga without spending some time in Kansas.
Conquistadors and cowboys, Indians and Exodusters - to say nothing of such luminaries in the pantheon of popular culture as Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, and Buffalo Bill Cody - join the intricate weave of the historical tapestry of Kansas. Frequently glanced at as a "passing through" place, Kansas is more accurately perceived as a...