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"Our Kansas Friends"
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| Spanish explorer Francisco de Coronado, in 1541, is considered the first European to have traveled this region. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sieur de la Salle's extensive land claims for France (1682) included present-day Kansas. Ceded to Spain by France in 1763, the territory reverted to France in 1800 and was sold to the U.S. as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, and Stephen H. Long explored the region between 1803 and 1819. | |||||||||||||||||
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| The first permanent white settlements in Kansas were outposts—Fort Leavenworth (1827), Fort Scott (1842), and Fort Riley (1853)—established to protect travelers along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Just before the Civil War, the conflict between the pro- and anti-slavery forces earned the region the grim title of Bleeding Kansas. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Today, wheat fields, oil-well derricks, herds of cattle, and grain-storage elevators are chief features of the Kansas landscape. | ||||||||||||||||||
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A leading wheat-growing state, Kansas also raises corn, sorghum, oats, barley, soybeans, and potatoes. | |||||||||||||||||
| Kansas stands high in petroleum production and mines zinc, coal, salt, and lead. It is also the nation's leading producer of helium. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Wichita is one of the nation's leading aircraft-manufacturing centers, ranking first in production of private aircraft. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Kansas City is an important transportation, milling, and meat-packing center. |
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| Points of interest include the Kansas History Center at Topeka, the Eisenhower boyhood home and the Eisenhower Memorial Museum and Presidential Library at | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Abilene, John Brown's cabin at Osawatomie, re-created Front Street in Dodge City, Fort Larned (an important military post on the Santa Fe Trail), Fort Leavenworth, and Fort Riley. | ||||||||||||||||||
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