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Johnny Kaw is a fictional Kansas settler and the subject of a number of Paul Bunyan-esque tall tales about the settling of the territory. The legend of Johnny Kaw was created in 1955 by George Filinger, a professor of horticulture at Kansas State University , to celebrate the centennial of Manhattan, Kansas .
"Smallville" is Superman's fictional Kansas hometown. "Stubbville" is the Sunflower State city where Steve Martin's and John Candy's characters catch a train after a frigid ride in the back of a ...
Johnny Kaw is a fictional Kansas settler created in a series of tall tale publications started in 1955 — one of his fictional feats was to have dug the Kansas River Valley. The "Kaw River" is mentioned as a location in the western series Wagon Train , in the opening scene of The Tom Tuckett Story episode (March 2, 1960).
Johnny Kaw is a mythical Kansas settler whose exploits created elements of the Kansas landscape and helped establish wheat and sunflowers as major crops. The character dates to the 1955 centennial of Kansas and has been explored in numerous books.
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The area gained the nickname Aggieville, from the mascot of the Kansas State Agricultural College Aggies. The name remained even after the mascot was changed to the Wildcat. After World War I, Aggieville grew. Trolley lines were built, and later paved over during the car boom of the 1940s. In the 1950s, bars and restaurants began to develop and ...
Johnny Kaw’s has closed in Waldo. Brett Allred opened the bar in 2015 at 7439 Broadway after opening Shot Stop in the same location in 2013. Allred, who also owns several bars in Westport, said ...
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