Heartland History
The Last Wheat Harvest at the Mueller Farm
Four generations on a Sedgwick County farm, and the autumn the family decided not to plant again.
When Wichita Was Cowtown: The Cattle Drives of 1872
The two seasons that turned a river town into the loudest stop on the Chisholm Trail.
The Murdock Brothers and the Founding of the Wichita Eagle
How two brothers from Ohio built the city's paper of record and, by accident, the city itself.
Coronado's Quivira: Searching for Gold on the Kansas Plains
The 1541 expedition that came north looking for a city and found a continent.
The Mennonite Wheat: Turkey Red and the Transformation of Kansas Agriculture
The seed that crossed the Atlantic in coat linings, and what it did to the prairie.
Pretty Boy Floyd's Wichita Hideout
Three nights in a rooming house on North Topeka, and the city that pretended not to see.
The Dust Bowl Diaries of a Cheney Township Family
Pages from a notebook kept on a kitchen table between 1933 and 1937.
The Sedgwick County Land Rush of 1870
Two hundred families, eighty thousand acres, and the year that made the county.