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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Kansas History, Kansas Biography | |
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| Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War, 1854-1865 | |
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| John Brown of Osawatomie | |
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| James H. Lane: Radical Conservative, Conservative Radical | |
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| William H. Russell: Proslavery Partisan and Western Entrepreneur | |
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| Clarina Irene Howard Nichols: "A Large-Hearted, Brave, Faithful Woman" | |
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| Settlement and Development, 1865-1890 | |
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| Joseph G. McCoy and the Creation of the Mythic American West | |
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| Theodore C. Henry: Frontier Booster and Nostalgic Old Settler | |
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| Frederick H. Harvey and the Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Food Service | |
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| Bernhard Warkentin and the Making of the Wheat State | |
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| The Age of Reform, 1880-1925 | |
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| Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke: A Gilded Age Icon | |
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| Mary Elizabeth Lease: Advocate for Political Reform | |
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| Charles M. Sheldon: Pastor, Author, and Passionate Social Reformer | |
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| William Allen White: The Voice of Middle America | |
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| Samuel J. Crumbine: Individualizing the Standard for Twentieth-Century Public Health | |
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| Kate Richards O'Hare: A Life of Dissent | |
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| Reaction, Depression, and War, 1920-1945 | |
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| Emanuel and Marcet Haldeman-Julius: An Innovative Partnership in Publishing | |
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| Alfred M. Landon: Budget Balancer | |
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| Walter A. Huxman: Leading by Example | |
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| Gerald B. Winrod: From Fundamentalist Preacher to "Jayhawk Hitler" | |
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| John Steuart Curry: A Portrait of the Artist as a Kansan | |
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| R. H. Garvey: "Operations Are Interesting" | |
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| Kansans and Kansas since World War II, 1945-2004 | |
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| Esther Brown: In Pursuit of Human Rights and Social Justice | |
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower: His Legacy in World Affairs | |
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| Gordon Parks and the Unending Quest for Self-fulfillment | |
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| Vern Miller: Kansas' Supercop | |
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| Robert J. Dole: Driven to Perform, Destined to Motivate | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Contributors | |
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| Index | |