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Bill Bailey Travels To Kansas Travel Facts Part Sixteen

Posted on 06.02.11

Bill Bailey Travel Club travels to the state of Kansas. Take a trip with us as we get to know more about the history, facts on travel and information of interest to you. Welcome to the great state of Kansas, our next destination for travel with Bill Bailey.

Kansas History

Part of the Midwest, Kansas is named after the river flowing through it and the tribe which once called the area home. For thousands of years, the state of Kansas was home to numerous native American tribes, the only residents until the first European settlers in the 1830’s.

Otherwise known as the sunflower state or the wheat state, what made Kansas so popular to the ensuing flocks of Europeans was its fertility. Kansas was and is still today, a very productive agricultural state, in fact, one of the most productive in the United States today.

Kansas was admitted into the union in 1861 as the 34th state and today, is ranked 33rd in population and 15th in total size. Bill Bailey welcomes you to Kansas, a great place to enjoy a vacation in the United States today.

Kansas Facts Of Interest

Home to 23 National Historic Landmarks including:

    Fort Scott, Bourbon County
    Lower Cimarron Spring, Grant County
    Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty Site, Barber County
    Nicodemus Historic District, Graham County
    Santa Fe Trail Remains, Ford County
    Spring Hill Ranch, Chase County

Largest City – Wichita

State symbols:

  • flower sunflower
  • tree cottonwood
  • bird western meadowlark
  • animal buffalo
  • song “Home on the Range”
  • South of Ashland the Rock Island Bridge is the longest railroad bridge of its kind. It measures 1,200 feet long and is 100 feet above the Cimarron River.
  • Kansas won the award for most beautiful license plate for the wheat plate design issued in 1981.
  • Dodge City is the windiest city in the United States.
  • Smith County is the geographical center of the 48 contiguous states.
  • Amelia Earhart, first woman granted a pilot’s license by the National Aeronautics Associate and first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean was from Atchison.
  • Fort Riley, between Junction City and Manhattan, was the cradle of the United States Cavalry for 83 years.
  • Wyatt Earp, James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok and William B. “Bat” Masterson were three of the legendary lawmen who kept the peace in rowdy frontier towns like Abilene, Dodge City, Ellsworth, Hays, and Wichita.
  • Civil War veteran S.P. Dinsmoor used over 100 tons of concrete to build the Garden of Eden in Lucas. Even the flag above the mausoleum is made of concrete.
  • A monument to the first Christian martyr on United States Territory stands along Highway 56 near Lyons. Father Juan de Padilla came to the region with the explorer Coronado in 1541.

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