item: #1 of 27 id: 11485 author: United States. Work Projects Administration title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VI, Kansas Narratives date: None words: 5105 flesch: 90 summary: When slave owners died, if they had no near relatives to inherit their property, they would 'Will' the slaves their freedom, instead of giving them to someone else. Slaves were never allowed to talk to white people other than their masters or someone their master knew, as they were afraid the white man might have the slave run away. keywords: kansas; master; mother; people; slaves; work; years cache: 11485.txt plain text: 11485.txt item: #2 of 27 id: 12973 author: Butler, Pardee title: Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler date: None words: 100017 flesch: 72 summary: They had spent the past months fighting, and they, in their own minds, associated the United States troops with the oppressors of Kansas Free State men. In doing so, I have not followed the example of a cowardly, corrupted and compromising Christianity, but rather have imitated the robust and manly courage of the writers of the Old and New Testament, who tell of the deeds of good men and bad men, and who also use the same freedom in speaking of the evil deeds of wicked rulers that they use in speaking of the things that more immediately concern the spiritual and eternal interests of men. keywords: atchison; boys; brethren; bro; brown; business; butler; cause; chapter; children; christian; church; churches; citizens; city; company; county; day; days; death; father; following; free; friends; geary; god; good; governor; home; house; john; jones; kansas; law; lawrence; leavenworth; left; life; lord; man; meeting; men; miles; missionary; missouri; new; night; number; old; order; pardee; party; people; place; preaching; public; question; river; saw; sheriff; slavery; south; state; state men; territory; thought; time; town; united; way; work; world; years; young cache: 12973.txt plain text: 12973.txt item: #3 of 27 id: 1318 author: Reynolds, John N. (John Newton) title: The Twin Hells A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and Missouri Penitentiaries date: None words: 67078 flesch: 79 summary: I have often been told, and that, too, by old prison men, that it was impossible to run a prison and have first-class discipline without the whip. Those long, dreary days of monotonous work--the same thing must be gone over, day after day; the food we eat, the treatment to which we are subjected, our loneliness and solitude, all combined, make prison life almost unbearable. keywords: case; cell; charge; coal; convict; county; crime; criminals; dark; day; days; death; feet; good; home; house; kansas; kind; liberty; life; man; manner; men; mines; missouri; money; months; night; officer; penitentiary; place; prison; prisoner; room; sentence; state; term; thought; time; warden; way; wife; work; years; young cache: 1318.txt plain text: 1318.txt item: #4 of 27 id: 13560 author: Parker, Lester Shepard title: Nancy MacIntyre: A Tale of the Prairies date: None words: 12137 flesch: 84 summary: 12 Now, old Jim was sleeping soundly Close beside his faithful wife; Peace had smoothed his savage wrinkles, All his dreams were free from strife. Good by, boy, old Zach repeated, I'm most sure you'll never see Any more o' them 'ere 'lusions, keywords: billy; day; face; fire; grass; johnson; kind; long; love; man; nancy; night; prairie; round; saw; trail; way cache: 13560.txt plain text: 13560.txt item: #5 of 27 id: 19071 author: Norris, Zoé Anderson title: The Way of the Wind date: None words: 33154 flesch: 87 summary: Many a brain stupefied by the lonely life of the dugout, the solemn, often portentous grandeur of the great blue dome, under which the pioneers crawled so helplessly, had been blown zigzag by the wild buffetings of the wayward, wanton winds, punctuating the dread loneliness so insistently, so incessantly, so diabolically by its staccato preludes, by its innuendoes of interludes prestissimo, by its finales frantically furious and fiendishly calculated to frighten the soul and tear the bewildered and weakened brain from its pedestal. But there were days of wind and rain and sleet and cold stormy weather when all animals of the desert, whether human or four-footed, were glad to seek their holes in the ground and stay there. keywords: celia; child; city; country; cyclona; day; door; dugout; eyes; face; girl; good; heart; home; house; illustration; jonathan; like; look; magic; man; men; mother; place; prairie; seth; theah; time; way; wind; window; woman cache: 19071.txt plain text: 19071.txt item: #6 of 27 id: 26992 author: Munger, Dell H. title: The Wind Before the Dawn date: None words: 155375 flesch: 84 summary: School opened auspiciously on Monday; John Hunter came and stayed to walk home with Elizabeth on Tuesday afternoon, and the glad weeks which followed were but the happy record of so many rides, walks, and talks, and the dreams of Elizabeth Farnshaw and John Hunter. Elizabeth Hunter had developed a power unknown to Elizabeth Farnshaw. keywords: aunt; baby; bed; cattle; child; day; days; doctor; door; elizabeth; elizabeth farnshaw; elizabeth hunter; eyes; face; fact; farm; father; girl; going; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; hepsie; home; hornby; house; hugh; husband; jack; jake; john; john hunter; kitchen; knew; life; little; lizzie; look; love; luther; man; matter; men; mind; moment; money; morgan; morning; mother; mrs; nathan; noland; place; rest; right; room; sadie; saw; school; set; silas; susan; talk; thing; thought; till; time; time elizabeth; want; way; wife; woman; work cache: 26992.txt plain text: 26992.txt item: #7 of 27 id: 27505 author: McCarter, Margaret Hill title: Winning the Wilderness date: None words: 115640 flesch: 87 summary: That's my wife, little Thaine said gravely. Then they fell to talking of the coming of little Leigh Shirley. keywords: asher; asher aydelot; away; aydelot; boy; business; carey; champers; cloverdale; coming; creek; darley; day; days; doctor; eyes; face; father; girl; going; good; grass; half; hand; help; home; horace; house; jacobs; jane; jim; jim shirley; john; kansas; land; leigh; leigh shirley; life; line; little; long; look; man; men; miss; money; morning; mother; need; place; plains; prairie; right; river; saw; shirley; smith; sunflower; thaine; thaine aydelot; things; thought; time; todd; town; trail; valley; virginia; virginia aydelot; west; white; wind; work; world; wyker; years; young cache: 27505.txt plain text: 27505.txt item: #8 of 27 id: 29129 author: Brooks, Noah title: The Boy Settlers: A Story of Early Times in Kansas date: None words: 61974 flesch: 83 summary: Good boy! A house already built! Little boys should be seen, not heard, said his elder brother, reprovingly. keywords: boys; bryant; buffalo; cabin; charlie; corn; country; creek; day; father; fork; fort; good; great; hand; home; house; howell; indian; kansas; lad; land; left; man; men; new; oscar; party; place; prairie; right; river; sandy; saw; settlers; state; thought; time; uncle; way; work; young; younkins cache: 29129.txt plain text: 29129.txt item: #9 of 27 id: 30629 author: Ritchie, Lily Munsell title: Chicken Little Jane on the Big John date: None words: 84777 flesch: 89 summary: Chicken Little Jane Morton, I give you my word of honor I didn't touch your old bread and I don't know where it is. Chicken Little Jane Morton, haven't you had any raising? keywords: alice; away; big; boys; calico; captain; chicken little; clarke; coming; creek; day; dear; dick; ernest; eyes; face; family; father; fire; frank; gertie; girls; good; grant; guess; half; hand; help; home; house; huz; jane; jilly; katy; look; mamie; marian; mind; morning; morton; mother; mrs; new; place; right; room; sherm; things; thought; time; town; want; way; wish cache: 30629.txt plain text: 30629.txt item: #10 of 27 id: 31046 author: Cockrum, E. Lendell title: A New Pocket Mouse (Genus Perognathus) from Kansas date: None words: 886 flesch: 67 summary: Castle Rock, 1. _Trego County_: Wakeeney, 3. _Hamilton County_: 1 mi. From topotypes of _P. f. piperi_ from 23 miles southwest of Newcastle, Weston County, Wyoming, _P. f. bunkeri_ differs as follows: keywords: county; kansas; length cache: 31046.txt plain text: 31046.txt item: #11 of 27 id: 31513 author: Metcalf, Artie L. title: Fishes of the Wakarusa River in Kansas date: None words: 5313 flesch: 81 summary: The five-year period prior to 1957 was the driest in the 70-year history of weather-records in Kansas (Metzler _et al._, 1958). It is interesting to note that this species had not reinvaded Smiths Branch, in Illinois, three years after the resumption of stream-flow (Larimore _et al._, 1959). keywords: creek; river; sec; wakarusa; water cache: 31513.txt plain text: 31513.txt item: #12 of 27 id: 31524 author: McCarter, Margaret Hill title: The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas date: None words: 148994 flesch: 88 summary: Best man ever went out to fight and never got back. Old men are prone to ramble in their stories, and I am not old. keywords: 'em; aunt; away; baronet; black; boy; boys; bud; business; cam; candace; care; claire; cliff; coming; conlow; dark; day; days; death; evening; eyes; face; father; girl; going; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; indian; jean; john; judge; judson; kansas; know; land; lay; letter; lettie; life; look; love; man; mapleson; marjie; mead; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; neosho; night; o'mie; pahusca; phil; place; plains; prairie; rachel; red; river; springvale; story; tell; thing; thought; time; took; town; valley; voice; way; west; whately; white; woman; word; years cache: 31524.txt plain text: 31524.txt item: #13 of 27 id: 33412 author: Fitch, Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) title: Observations on the Mississippi Kite in Southwestern Kansas date: None words: 6455 flesch: 71 summary: The following list includes both the prey found beneath perches of fledglings and that identified from pellets, the latter mostly from adult kites. Dr. Claude W. Hibbard of the University of Michigan and Mr. Harry Smith, superintendent of Meade State Park, also kindly provided much useful information concerning the history of the colony of Mississippi kites at the Park. keywords: adults; august; food; insects; kansas; kites; nest; park; prey; time; young cache: 33412.txt plain text: 33412.txt item: #14 of 27 id: 34353 author: Fitch, Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) title: The Forest Habitat of the University of Kansas Natural History Reservation date: None words: 18779 flesch: 67 summary: Other forest birds which occur in the general area, and which have been recorded from time to time on the Reservation, although they seem not to nest there, are: chuck-will's-widow (_Caprimulgus carolinensis_), scarlet tanager (_Piranga olivacea_), Acadian flycatcher (_Empidonax virescens_), veery (_Hylocichla fuscescens_), parula warbler (_Parula americana_), oven-bird (_Seiurus aurocapillus_), and orchard oriole (_Icterus spurius_). In the eighteen nineties parts of the area including some of the hillsides were still covered with a mixed forest of virgin timber (_fide_ keywords: area; diameter; elm; feet; forest; growing; honey; inches; kansas; locust; oak |; orange; osage; prairie; present; red; reservation; situations; slopes; south; species; thickets; trees; trunk; woodland; years; | | cache: 34353.txt plain text: 34353.txt item: #15 of 27 id: 34429 author: Tordoff, Harrison Bruce title: Check-list of the Birds of Kansas date: None words: 17836 flesch: 68 summary: Linnaeus in northeast, _A. h. wardi_ Subspecies in Kansas: _A. c. septentrionalis_ Snyder and Lumsden. keywords: black; breeding; counties; county; douglas; east; eastern; gmelin; kansas; linnaeus; miles; nesting; north; records; resident; sparrow; specimens; state; status; subspecies; summer resident; text; transient; uncommon; warbler; west; western; winter resident cache: 34429.txt plain text: 34429.txt item: #16 of 27 id: 34523 author: Metcalf, Artie L. title: Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties, Kansas date: None words: 24735 flesch: 78 summary: ==================================================================== Collection number | Date | River | Location ------------------+---------------+-----------+--------------------- C-131 | April 5, 1955 | ======================================================================= Gauging |Drainage |Avg |Maximum| |Minimum| station |area |dis- |dis- | |dis- | |(sq. mi.)|charge|charge | Date |charge | Date ---------------|---------|------|-------|----------|-------|----------- Arkansas River | 43,713 |1,630 |103,000| June 10, | 1 |October 9, at Arkansas | | | | 1923 | | 1921 City | | | | | | ---------------|---------|------|-------|----------|-------|---------- Walnut River | 1,840 | 738 |105,000| April 23,| 0 |1928, 1936 at Winfield | | | | 1944 keywords: .1 |; = =; = |; area; arkansas; average; big; caney; caney river; county; creek; elk; feet; fish; grouse; june; kansas; notropis; pools; river; sec; species; stations; streams; walnut; water; | | cache: 34523.txt plain text: 34523.txt item: #17 of 27 id: 34554 author: Breukelman, John title: Selected Records of Reptiles and Amphibians from Kansas date: None words: 3798 flesch: 79 summary: Jetmore. _Lyon Co._: 5 miles south of Plymouth; 6 miles southeast of Emporia; 9 miles southwest of Emporia. _Lyon Co._: 1.5 miles northwest of Reading. keywords: city; co.; emporia; lyon; lyon co.; miles; ness; north; nos; southwest cache: 34554.txt plain text: 34554.txt item: #18 of 27 id: 34787 author: Deacon, James E. title: Fish Populations, Following a Drought, in the Neosho and Marais des Cygnes Rivers of Kansas date: None words: 29287 flesch: 78 summary: | 1954 | 8.53 | 2,720 | .1 | 1955 | 31.2 | 6,480 | 0 | 1956 | 10.1 | 5,250 | 0 | 1957 | 68.5 | 12,300 | 0 | 1958 | 131.0 | 5,360 keywords: .2 |; 1957; 1959; = =; catfish |; cygnes; darter |; des; kansas; marais; minnow |; neosho; neosho river; neosho station; redhorse |; river; shiner |; species; station; sunfish |; upper; year; | ---------------+--------------+------------+------------+; | -|; | area; | number; | t; | | cache: 34787.txt plain text: 34787.txt item: #19 of 27 id: 36559 author: De Voe, Carrie title: Legends of The Kaw: The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley date: None words: 35344 flesch: 74 summary: Old men at the ends of the village called upon each male person to prepare bow and arrow and be ready for the sacrifice. Old men and maidens gazed with hopeful pride on sons and sweethearts. keywords: buffalo; chief; dance; day; death; earth; enemy; father; fire; god; great; ground; hand; head; heart; home; horse; indian; kansas; land; life; man; medicine; men; nation; night; pawnees; people; place; red; river; shawnees; sioux; spirit; story; time; tribe; village; war; warriors; water; white; woman; years cache: 36559.txt plain text: 36559.txt item: #20 of 27 id: 36653 author: Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) title: Subspeciation in Pocket Gophers of Kansas, [KU. Vol. 1 No. 11] date: None words: 6502 flesch: 70 summary: Therefore, the color and size probably are indicative of intergradation between _jugossicularis_ and _major_. W Elkader, 3; no locality more precise than county, 1. _Trego County_: keywords: + =; = +; = =; bursarius; county; geomys; kansas; length; specimens cache: 36653.txt plain text: 36653.txt item: #21 of 27 id: 37210 author: Johnston, Richard F. title: The Breeding Birds of Kansas date: None words: 35387 flesch: 74 summary: TABLE 2.--ANALYSIS OF THE BREEDING AVIFAUNA OF KANSAS BY HABITAT-TYPES ========================+=============================== | Percentage of the Avifauna of +--------+-----------+---------- HABITAT-TYPE | | North | Stated | Kansas | America | Habitat ------------------------+--------+-----------+---------- Woodland: 101 species | 58 | 16.7 | 44.4 Limnic: 36 species[B] | 21 | 6.0 | 38.5 Grassland: 23 species | 13 | 3.8 | 71.3 Xeric scrub: 3 species | 2 | 0.5 | 10.2 Unanalyzed: 11 species | 6 | 2.0 | 55.0 +--------+-----------+---------- Totals: 174 species | 100 | 29.0 | 43.2 ------------------------+--------+-----------+---------- TABLE 18.--OCCURRENCE IN TIME OF SUMMER RESIDENT ICTERIDS IN KANSAS =================+===========================+============================ | Arrival | Departure SPECIES keywords: + =; = +; = =; = american; = |; april; birds; breeding; breeding records; breeding season; clutches; counties; county; date; eastern; eggs; eggs._--clutch; feet; fig; july; june; kansas =; laying; modal; nesting; nests; number; occurrence; period; records; resident; size; span; species; summer; summer resident; table; west; woodland; | apr; | median; | oct; | range; | sept; | | cache: 37210.txt plain text: 37210.txt item: #22 of 27 id: 377 author: Barker, Nettie Garmer title: Kansas Women in Literature date: None words: 6994 flesch: 74 summary: The author of that versatile little book of short stories, The Lower Bureau Drawer is Emma Upton Vaughn, a Kansas City, Kansas teacher. Her Passing From Under The Partial Eclipse did much to give Kansas City, Kansas her recognized place commercially on the map. keywords: author; book; children; city; heart; kansas; margaret; mary; mrs; poems; school; state; stories; story; verse; women; work; writer; years cache: 377.txt plain text: 377.txt item: #23 of 27 id: 37742 author: Minckley, W. L. title: Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, Kansas date: None words: 17958 flesch: 80 summary: Examination of the area revealed nests of _L. cyanellus_ near the debris, and some of the activity by the shiners may have been raids on nests of the sunfish. ================================================================= AREA, YEAR, |Average |Number |Number |Number AND NUMBER |length of |fish per |fish per|fish per OF FISHERMEN |fisherman-day|fisherman-day|man-hour|pole-hour[A] ---------------+-------------+-------------+--------+------------ Area keywords: + =; = +; = =; = |; basin; blue; co.; creek; fish; fishes; july; kansas; kansas river; river; river basin; sec; species; stations; streams; text; | | cache: 37742.txt plain text: 37742.txt item: #24 of 27 id: 39674 author: Webb, W. E. (William Edward) title: Buffalo Land Authentic Account of the Discoveries, Adventures, and Mishaps of a Scientific and Sporting Party in the Wild West date: None words: 111799 flesch: 71 summary: We explained to White Wolf that Tammany Sachem was one of many great chiefs who had a mighty wigwam in the big city of the pale-faces, far away toward the rising sun; that they were all good men, and never lied like the chiefs of the Cheyennes, or took any thing belonging to others; and that their women, instead of carrying heavy burdens, spent all their time in distributing the money and goods of the big wigwam to the needy. It took good men, too, from our little party, and fur awhile I was faint-hearted. keywords: air; animal; away; big; bill; bison; blood; body; buffalo; camp; cattle; chapter; close; colon; country; creek; day; dead; death; distance; dogs; earth; east; eyes; feet; fire; fort; game; good; grass; ground; guide; half; hand; hays; head; home; horse; hunting; illustration; indian; instant; kansas; land; left; life; line; little; man; meat; men; miles; morning; mountains; muggs; new; night; north; number; party; people; place; plains; point; prairie; professor; red; river; rock; run; sachem; saddle; savage; shamus; shot; south; state; surface; tail; ther; thing; thought; time; trees; valley; water; west; white; wild; wolf; work; years; young cache: 39674.txt plain text: 39674.txt item: #25 of 27 id: 40574 author: Inman, Henry title: The Ranche on the Oxhide: A Story of Boys' and Girls' Life on the Frontier date: None words: 60471 flesch: 74 summary: At last Joe could contain himself no longer, and he cried out in his exultation over the farce he had enacted: Father, mother, Rob, and you girls, don't you know me? No! Joe Thompson, the eldest child, about fourteen, was a rare boy, strongly built, and possessed of a mind that was equal to his well-developed body. keywords: animals; boys; buffalo; camp; chief; colonel; creek; day; errolstrath; family; father; fort; general; good; great; horses; house; hunt; indians; joe; kate; man; men; moment; morning; mother; night; oxhide; party; pawnees; ponies; pony; ranche; rob; savages; thompson; time; trail; tucker; white; wild; wolf; young cache: 40574.txt plain text: 40574.txt item: #26 of 27 id: 40698 author: Unknown title: Address to the People of the United States, together with the Proceedings and Resolutions of the Pro-Slavery Convention of Missouri, Held at Lexington, July 1855 date: None words: 12054 flesch: 50 summary: Col. S. A. Young rose and informed the Convention, that he had information that a letter had been received by a member of this Convention, Mr. Field, from a distinguished politician, advising and urging him, that unless certain resolutions were adopted by this Convention, to secede from the Convention and break it up in a row; and he wished this matter investigated, and the facts properly brought out. _Jackson Co._--S. H. Woodson, W. M. F. Magraw, W. F. Robinson, W. Easley, E. C. McCarty, N. R. McMurry, J. A. Winn, T. M. Adams, N. M. Miller, W. Ellis, E. McClanahan, John McCarty, J. M. Ridge, J. R. Henry, Col. J. M. Cogswell, Jno. keywords: col; committee; convention; county; kansas; missouri; motion; president; resolutions; slavery; state; territory cache: 40698.txt plain text: 40698.txt item: #27 of 27 id: 55720 author: Peck, Robert Morris title: The Wolf Hunters: A Story of the Buffalo Plains date: None words: 74244 flesch: 77 summary: After establishing our camp our commander, old Tom, gave his orders, as occasion suggested, and Jack and I promptly executed them. Our commander, old Tom, had given orders for an early start next morning, and before daylight his call, Turn out, men! routed us out of our blankets. keywords: 'em; bill; buffalo; camp; captain; close; come; company; creek; day; fire; fort; getting; going; good; horse; indians; injuns; jack; kiowas; larned; leavenworth; left; look; man; men; money; mules; outfit; prairie; right; road; satank; saunders; team; tent; timber; time; tom; wagon; way; wild; wolf; work cache: 55720.txt plain text: 55720.txt