Kansas Posters, Prints, Photographs, Maps, & Calendars, pg 2/2
for educators and home schoolers; themed decor in studio or office.

Wheat, a cultivated grass originally from the Levant area of the Middle East (southwest Asia), is the most widely grown crop in Kansas. Watch wheat grow.

• more grain (food) posters

In June 1825, the Kaw signed a treaty with the United States ceding their 20-million-acre homeland for a 2-million-acre reservation west of what is now Topeka, Kansas, as well as a promise of annuities and schools. The Treaty of 1846 reduced tribal landholdings to 256,000 acres and the tribe sold their other lands for ten cents an acre. Another land cession treaty was signed in 1859. Despite protests by the tribe the US Congress passed an act to remove the tribe to a 100,137-acre reservation in 1872.

Charles Curtis, who as a child lived with his maternal grandparents on the Kaw reservation, was a United States Representative, a longtime United States Senator, and the 31st Vice President of the United States (under Herbert Hoover). He was the first person with acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach either of the two highest offices in the United States government's executive branch.

• Mixed-Bloods and Tribal Dissolution: Charles Curtis and the Quest for Indian Identity
• more Native American posters

The Plains Indians nicknamed the black cavalrymen Buffalo Soldiers - a title the troopers proudly accepted. To be associated with the fighting spirit of the Indian's sacred buffalo was a measure of respect.
The Buffalo Soldiers consistently received some of the worst assignments the Army had to offer and repeatedly faced fierce prejudice. Despite this, the 9th and 10th Cavalries fought with great dedication and courage and developed into two of the most effective and distinguished fighting units in the Army.

• more Black History Military posters
• more Black History Pioneers Biographical Timeline posters

Aerial view of the Boeing factory in Wichita, Kansas

The Boeing plant is a major facility for commercial aviation manufacture.

• aviation posters

An estimated 5,000,000 head of Texas cattle traveled the Chisholm Trail across the Red River and Oklahoma to the railheads of the Kansas Pacific Railway between 1867-1871.

The trail was named for Jesse Chisholm, an early trader in Texas, Oklahoma Indian Territory and in the area of Wichita, Kansas. Chisholm, who died in 1868, never drove cattle.

• more horse posters

Eisenhower House,
Abilene, Kansas

Dwight Eisenhower grew up in Abilene, Kansas in “a simple clapboard home which [he] would later remark had less floor space than his office at the Pentagon”.

• Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower print
• WWII posters
• Birthplace, Denison, TX
• Eisenhower Library Abilene

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody
b. 2-26-1846; LeClaire, Iowa
d. 1-10-1917; Colorado

The showman William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody lived in Leavenworth, Kansas as a young child. One of the reasons his family moved to Kansas was because his father believe Kansas should be a Free State. After his father's death due to stab wounds from a pro-slavery supporter, 11 year old William went to work becoming an Army scout, hunter, fur trapper, gold prospector, Pony Express rider, and Union soldier in the Civil War, at various times. Cody earned his nickname because of his ability to plentifully supply the Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with bison meat.

Cody's “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” was a show that presented Native Americans and real working people of the fast disappearing Old West. Cody, one of the founders of Cody, WY, was also noted for his conservation efforts and speaking out in favor of women voting.

Carrie A. Nation
b. 11-25-1846; Kentucky
d. 6-9-1911; Kansas

Carrie Nation, née Moore, a leader in the temperance movement, starting a chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. She was known for smashing the stock of saloons with rocks and finally a hatchet. She is buried in Belton, Missouri.

• more notable women activists

Route 66, The Mother Road

Kansas had the shortest section of Route 66, just 12.8 miles in the far southeastern corner, from Missouri to Oklahoma.

The film musical, The Wizard of Oz, was based on the L. Frank Baum's fantasy children's book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The story of is of young Dorothy Gale who is swept up with her Kansas farmhouse and little dog Toto, by a tornado and dropped into Munchkin Land, right on top of the Wicked Witch of the East.

Dorothy Costume