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Quivira was a province of the ancestral Wichita people, [1] located near the Great Bend of the Arkansas River in central Kansas, [1] The exact site may be near present-day Lyons extending northeast to Salina. The Wichita city of Etzanoa, which flourished between 1450 and 1700, is likely part of Quivira. [2]
Politics – In Kansas, the political atmosphere was highly divided. Towns were either pro-slavery or abolitionist. When Kansas became a free state in 1861, pro-slavery towns died out. Survival of a town also depended on if it won the county seat. Towns that were contenders for the county seat and lost typically saw most, if not all, of their ...
The hotel reopened and a bridge was built across the river into the settlement. Following failure of the gold rush, which both the first Kansas state geologist, Erasmus Haworth, [3] and Thomas Edison had previously declared a hoax, [4] Chetolah was abandoned and became a ghost town. Today, very little remains of the settlement. [1]
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In the 1971 spaghetti Western film The Last Traitor, there is $200,000 worth of Confederate gold. In the 1994 film Timecop, a single traveler from the future hijacks a shipment of Confederate gold using advanced automatic weapons with laser sighting. This gold is mentioned later to be used in untraceable payment to terrorists in the 20th century.
A driver quoted by Fox4 television in Kansas City was reminded of the black and gold colors of the University of Missouri, once the arch-nemesis of the University of Kansas in a tame version of ...
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Editor's note: Follow Ohio State vs. Notre Dame live updates, scores and highlights from the national championship game. ATLANTA — Will Howard was talking about this strange season, one that ...