mid-kansas

Updated: May 23, 2025

The frontier of settlement advanced from the western edge of Missouri into mid-Kansas, and almost met the growing population of the Far West, whose economic possibilities had already attracted attention. The discovery of gold-dust in a mill-race in California had drawn the "Forty-niners" to ... lands of gold That lay toward the sun.

Charles Ramsdell Lingley - The United States Since the Civil War