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 High Plains History
Airs Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.

Take a few minutes to step back in time and explore the historical events, places, persons, social movements, and humorous incidents from the centuries of human settlement on the High Plains.  High Plains History is written and produced by Skip Mancini with the assistance of historians, historical societies, and museums from across the region.
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Sawmills - Learn the history of a sawmill that operated on the treeless High Plains.

Wagon Bed Springs - Take a break at a popular watering spot along the Santa Fe Trail.


  Salt well - Visit the site of a mysterious salt cavern that appeared in Meade County, Kansas.

  Windmills - Learn about an invention that made it possible to settle the west.

  Swedish Customs - Learn about lutfisk and lingonberries as we visit a typical Swedish immigrant farm in the 1800's.

  Zulu Stockade - Two brothers from England became store keepers in the early day Texas Panhandle.

  Home of Stone - A visit to one of the oldest buildings in Dodge City

  Punished Woman's Fork - Visit one of the last Indian battlegrounds in Kansas

  Pancake Day Race - Grab your skillet and your apron and come to Liberal, Kansas for a Shrove Tuesday event.

  Rainmakers - A look at early day methods used to try and fool Mother Nature.

  XIT Ranch -The story of what was once the biggest ranch in Texas.

  Fort Hays/Fort Dodge Trail - A visit to a supply trail and trading post in Southwest Kansas.

  Black Mesa - Get to know your local dinosaurs in the Oklahoma Panhandle

  The Hugoton Gas Field - A new economy for Kansas and the nation began with a wildcatter's hopes and dreams

  Prairie Playtimes - Pioneer children worked hard and then played Hard while growing up on the Great Plains

  Buddy Heaton - A rodeo clown who got his start in Southwest Kansas rode to fame on an unusual mount.

  WPA Projects - Two historic structures in Central Western Kansas were built at the same time, with a helping hand from a government agency.

  Main Street Murder - Hollywood's depiction of Depression Era gangsters might have been the model for a home grown bank robber in Syracuse, Kansas.  But his hankering for a good meal was probably his downfall.

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