Happy Sesquicentennial Kansas!
Jan. 29, 1861 - Jan. 29, 2011
150 years
In photo, via Kansas.com:
John Steuart Curry’s Tragic Prelude (1938-1940), a mural in the Kansas Statehouse illustrating John Brown and the clash of forces in Bleeding Kansas. Other photos counter clock wise from left: Portrait of James Butler [Wild Bill] Hickok in buckskins. Date: 1871. Amelia Earhart, Kansas aviator. Dust storm over western Kansas in 1935. Original photograph of the “Dodge City Peace Commission” in June 1883. Front (l-r), , Wyatt S. Earp, Frank McLain, and Neil Brown. Back (l-r), Luke Short, W. B. Bat Masterson, and W. F. Petillon. Undated train photo in Wichita. 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry, Company E., 1862. First church in Wichita, undated.
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![Happy Sesquicentennial Kansas!Jan. 29, 1861 - Jan. 29, 2011150 yearsIn photo, via Kansas.com:John Steuart Curry’s Tragic Prelude (1938-1940), a mural in the Kansas Statehouse illustrating John Brown and the clash of forces in Bleeding Kansas. Other photos counter clock wise from left: Portrait of James Butler [Wild Bill] Hickok in buckskins. Date: 1871. Amelia Earhart, Kansas aviator. Dust storm over western Kansas in 1935. Original photograph of the “Dodge City Peace Commission” in June 1883. Front (l-r), , Wyatt S. Earp, Frank McLain, and Neil Brown. Back (l-r), Luke Short, W. B. Bat Masterson, and W. F. Petillon. Undated train photo in Wichita. 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry, Company E., 1862. First church in Wichita, undated.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfr13si8Nx1qzne7eo1_400.jpg)