• A thin line between love and hate. Leonardville and Riley: the evolution of a small town rivalry 

  Schnee, Angela (Kansas State University. Dept. of History, 2011-05-12)

  The author recreates the formation of a twin town rivalry in Riley County, Kansas. She explores how the rivalry between Riley and Leonardville, Kansas first began over a century ago and the reasons why it still exists ...
• The Firebrand: Clay Center, Clay County, Kansas, Dec. 1893 – Nov., 1894 

  Collins, Becky (Kansas State University. Dept. of History, 2011-04-19)

  Among the 713 newspapers in print in Kansas in the 1880s, a single short-lived newspaper provides insight into political shifts and battles in small towns. The Firebrand newspaper in Clay Center provided inflammatory ...
• Cheyenne Dog Soldier Depredations on Settlers in the Northern Kansas Frontier From 1864 to 1869 

  Howard, Ian (Kansas State University. Dept. of History, 2011-04-19)

  During the 1860s, Indian tribes raided frontier settlements across the plains, most notably the Cheyenne in North Central Kansas. Numerous counties in Kansas felt the scarring effect of the raids; however, the counties of ...
• Technology, Mechanization, and the Life and Death of a Kansas Common Pasture: The Story of the Westmoreland Common Pasture, Westmoreland, Pottawatomie County, Kansas, 1860-1940 

  McCoy, Travis J. (Kansas State University. Dept. of History, 2011-04-19)

  Many small towns in Kansas had a shared dairy commons. The author of this study connects the commons in Westmoreland, Rock Creek Valley, with the strong German and Sudetenland settler culture; he also traces the life of ...
• Fact vs. Speculation: Finding the Meaning Behind the Westmoreland Slaughterhouse, Pottawatomie County, Kansas, 1859 – 1959 

  Zuk, Lara (Kansas State University. Dept. of History, 2011-04-19)

  With Germanic and possibly surviving medieval European culture ways implanted in Pottawatomie County, a shared rural slaughterhouse in early Westmoreland provides clues. From oral accounts only, the author locates the site ...

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