Wakarusa, Shawnee County

Simmons, Dillon

Wakarusa, Shawnee County

dc.citation	Dillon Simmons, “Wakarusa, Shawnee County,” Chapman Center Research Collections, https://ccrsresearchcollections.omeka.net/items/show/59.
dc.contributor.author	Simmons, Dillon
dc.date.accessioned	2021-02-12T00:26:12Z
dc.date.available	2021-02-12T00:26:12Z
dc.date.issued	2011-09
dc.date.published	2011
dc.description	Dillon Simmons, “Wakarusa, Shawnee County,” Chapman Center Research Collections, https://ccrsresearchcollections.omeka.net/items/show/59.
dc.description.abstract	The history of Wakarusa, a town in Shawnee County, Kansas, located about eleven miles south of Topeka, dates back to the 1850s. Its name originates from the Wakarusa River valley, land that was originally inhabited by the Pottawatomie Indians. The name "Wakarusa" was supposedly derived from an American Indian folk tale about a chief who crossed the river by horse and exclaimed to his followers, "Wa-ka-ru-sa," meaning "hip-deep" or "river of big weeds."
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/2097/41107
dc.publisher	Kansas State University, The Chapman Center for Rural Studies
dc.relation.uri	https://ccrsresearchcollections.omeka.net/items/show/59
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dc.subject	Wakarusa
dc.subject	Wakarusa Hotel
dc.subject	Shawnee County
dc.subject	Santa Fe Railroad
dc.subject	Pottawatomie Indians
dc.subject	Zenas King
dc.title	Wakarusa, Shawnee County
dc.type	Text

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