Kansas, 1874

"Kansas, 1874" recounts the interesting and important events of that tumultous year.1874 in the Sunflower State was a time of the Wild West and of Indian attacks, but also of a rising poet and debates on temperance. #xC2;#xA0;It was the year the Mennonites first arrived, and when Abilene#xE2;#xAC;"s T. C. Henry began to promote winter wheat as a good crop for Kansas farmers. #xC2;#xA0;Few other years in state history show Kansas in its transition from part of the frontier to its own identity so clearly.