Robert Collins

Kansas, 1874: Triumphs, Tragedies, and Transitions Robert Collins

"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.  It was the year the Mennonites first arrived, and when Abilene?s T. C. Henry began to promote winter wheat as a good crop for Kansas farmers.  Few other years in state history show Kansas in its transition from part of the frontier to its own identity so clearly.