Wild West

LETTERS

KANSAS HISTORY

y hat is off to Deb Goodrich and her June 2018 article “From Tepee to Capitol Dome” on Kansan Charles Curtis. It sparked me to pull out two old Kansas history schoolbooks that belonged to my grandmother Patterson (and were used in a one-room schoolhouse). She gave them to me as a teenager due to my love of history. Both books are titled , by Bliss Isely and Walter Marvin Richards—the first one was published by the State of Kansas,

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