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Historic Lake Scott State Park is considered a recreational gem of western Kansas.

Virginia Kerns Frantz was born near Granada, Colorado on February 28, 1924. She remembers her childhood as a hand-to-mouth existence.

Montezuma, located in the southwestern corner of Kansas, is a small town with big bragging rights. In addition to sporting one of the first wind farms on the high plains, this quiet, largely German Mennonite community is home to the Stauth Memorial Museum.

A list of the movers and shakers who helped develop the city of Amarillo would have to include Guy Anton Carlander.

In the late 1870s many Southern blacks saw Kansas as The Promised Land, partially because of the availability of free land through the Homesteaders Act, but also because so many Kansans had taken an anti-slavery stance in the battle for free-state status prior to the Civil War.

In Southwest Kansas, the dry and dusty bed of the once mighty R-kansas River (also called the Arkansas) gives little indication of the swirling waters of death and destruction that have periodically overflowed its banks.

The Texas Longhorn, an icon of the past, was a work of nature, untouched by man’s attempts at breeding and crossbreeding.

After 1880, land colonizers lured a number of farmers to the Panhandle Plains of Texas by promoting the agricultural benefits that might befall a landowner in this vast area.

In 1929, Marion Talley, world-renowned Metropolitan Opera star, began a brief love affair with the Heartland when she purchased farm ground near Colby in northwest Kansas.

While there IS an art to planting a vegetable garden, don't feel bad for not feeling like an artist if you're new to it. In fact, a little experimentation and failure are to be expected, since that's how you learn what works, and what doesn't.