Pioneer life in Kansas

Abstract

Introduction: For the flourishing condition of our beloved state of Kansas we are greatly indebted to its earliest settlers, its pioneers. “Ad Aspera Per Aspera”, (“To the stars through difficulties”) has always been the motto for the people of Kansas, and they have succeeded in converting a broad expanse of uninhabited prairie into a thriving and prosperous state, whose citizens are free, liberty loving people, instead of hard bearded slave owners, as they might have been.