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New article

Just set up a stub at Keats, Kansas (near Manhattan). If anyone has a photo or more info, please add it. Paulmcdonald 09:21, August 22, 2014‎

Court House photos project

Bringing over this project to photograph and add Kansas county court houses be added to their respective articles, and possibly the corresponding county seat article, from the previous archive now that the WP:Kansas group is active and split from the WP:United States group.

Help is needed adding them to their respective county pages by adding the following to the County Infobox template

|ex image = courthouse image filename.jpg

|ex image cap = xxx County Court House in xxxx (year)

The following counties do not have court house photos. Contributors, please delete the counties as the photos are added.

Spacini (talk) 21:11, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but I quickly found this - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atchison_County_Courthouse_(Kansas) --- • Sbmeirow • Talk • 00:12, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for noting this one. The photo of the Atchison Courthouse is greatly out of date and only depicts the clock tower. I have a current picture and will upload it today. Spacini (talk) Spacini (talk) 15:21, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

1855 Kansas Territory elections

Anyone interested in peaking over the "1855 Kansas Territory elections" article I'm working on? I'm trying to base most of the info off the 1856 "Report of the Special Committee Appointed to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas," published by the House of Representatives. The problem is that this report is riddled with math errors (e.g., sometimes totals are erroneously calculated; sometimes scattered votes are counted in the "total votes" category, sometimes they aren't), and the table on page 32 that reports some of the territorial house results is a jumbled mess. For these instances, I've used Andreas's History of Kansas to fill in the blanks, so to speak. I've added a lot of explanatory notes to clear some confusion up, and I'd love to hear your thoughts!--Gen. Quon[Talk] 18:53, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I added a link to your new article at "Kansas Territory#Election of Territorial Legislature". I don't have any input at this moment, because I haven't much about the Kansas Territory elections. Have you looked at any other historical Kansas books at Kansas#Bibliography or History_of_Kansas#Bibliography? Is someone going to create 1857 Kansas Territory elections article? • Sbmeirow • Talk • 04:00, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Dean Smith

Dean Smith has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Hog Farm Talk 02:17, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kansas dead line

Very late in the AfD for Hogback Kansas (20th century Section 18/Disney Hogback Siding), I remembered something I ran accross with respect to the (19th century Section 21/pre-Yost) Hog Back "Station". The article mentioned that even after the Kansas dead line was moved west of Trego, Texas cattle were still being driven to the Section 21 Hog Back.

Back then, I could not find coverage on the Kansas dead line on the wiki. I still can't.

The Kansas dead line refers to a boundary established by the Kansas Legislature to exclude Texas cattle from settled farms and ranchland in Eastern Kansas. The Texas cattle carried disease to domestic herds in Kansas, the cattle drives damaged cultivated crops and consumed grass that Kansas domestic ranchers claimed, and surges of cow pokes disrupted the peace of new Kansas towns.

The original dead line, called the Kansas Pacific dead line, excluded Texas cattle not only from the eastern Kansas cities, but from the northern counties along the Kansas/Nebraska border. The intention was that the cattle be loaded on the Kansas Pacific Railway and shipped west through Denver to Cheyenne, Wyoming. As the Legislature moved the deadline west over following years, closing off Ablilene, Salina, and Ellsworth, in turn, the Ellis Trail developed with destinations from Hays City to Grainfield.

I can understand the reason drovers violated the dead line after it was moved west of Trego. As I. M. Yost later recognised, "Hogback Station" was the last open water on the KPRR until Denver.

I am not suggesting a separate page for the Kansas dead line, necessarily, but at least it should be mentioned in Chisholm Trail with the Ellis Trail. However, I can see that this is an element of Kansas settlement history. Admittedly, the Kansas dead line was not an influence on the settlement, but an effect of the settlement.

So, I offer the suggestion for the project's concideration that the Kansas dead line be added to Chisolm Trail with focus on the westward shifting of the destinations. And the Kansas deadline can be added to the pages on the sequential cowtowns. For my part, I could consider the Kansas dead line in my study of Ellis County.

IveGoneAway (talk) 14:54, 13 February 2024 (UTC) 13:02, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Two clarifications to reduce confusion:
  • The "Ellis Trail" is more widely known as the Great Western Cattle Trail, although the extension to Ellis, Kansas from Dodge City would be more properly the "Ellis Trail", a route that grew in importance as the Kansas dead line blocked train shipments into eastern Kansas from Dodge. The Great Western Cattle Trail article does mention the Kansas Legislation (not by name), but the impact of the dead line on the Chisolm Trail was earlier and more severe.
  • The route that Exodusters took from Ellis to Nicodemus was also called the "Ellis Trail".
IveGoneAway (talk) 02:08, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Links to work with at some time:
IveGoneAway (talk) 18:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lake Shawnee Draft

Hello, I was wondering if you guys could contribute in any way to the Lake Shawnee draft I started. If you could get a picture or anything that would help greatly. Thanks! RoyalSilver (talk) 20:25, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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