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The Rise of the Wheat State: A History of Kansas Agriculture, 1861- 1986 (1987) 16 topical essays by experts. online; Hurt, R. Douglas. "The Agricultural and Rural History of Kansas." Kansas History 2004 27(3): 194–217. ISSN 0149-9114 Fulltext: in Ebsco; Larson, Henrietta M. The wheat market and the farmer in Minnesota, 1858–1900 (1926 ...
Southwest Kansas is known as a place dominated by beef and grain production, but there was a time when this region was instead known for watermelons. Why once-covered fields in southwest Kansas ...
Jamestown was founded in 1878, and was incorporated as a city in 1883. [4] It was named for either Senator James Pomeroy, [5] or James P. Pomeroy, a railroad official. [6] [7] [8] A post office was opened in Alva (an extinct town) in 1871, but it was moved to Jamestown in 1878. [9]
After the war, Kansas was home to Wild West towns servicing the cattle trade. With the railroads came heavy immigration from the East, from Europe, and from Freedmen called "Exodusters". For much of its history, Kansas has had a rural economy based on wheat and other crops, supplemented by oil and railroads. Since 1945 the farm population has ...
Pages in category "Economic history of Kansas" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G.
Grant Township covers an area of 36.01 square miles (93.3 km 2) and contains one incorporated settlement, Jamestown. [citation needed] According to the USGS, it contains two cemeteries: Jamestown and Saint Marys. [citation needed] The streams of Cheyenne Creek, Little Cheyenne Creek, Marsh Creek and Skunk Creek run through this township.
In Kansas City or even Salina, 40 miles southeast of Lincoln, a builder who spends $150,000 to construct a new home can safely assume it will sell for far more than $150,000, ensuring a profit.
Danbom, David B. Born in the Country: A History of Rural America (3rd ed. 1995) online; focus on economics of farming. Danbom, David B. "Rural education reform and the country life movement, 1900-1920." Agricultural History 53.2 (1979): 462-474. online; Dant, Sara. Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West. (U of Nebraska Press ...