Dark Friday inspires new Quantrill raid book by Pollard
Ottawa Library orders William C. Pollard Topeka written work about Quantrill 1863 raid on Lawrence. Pollard frames it as the raid most comprehensively documented to date noting Quantrill bypassed Ottawa then moved east into Franklin Miami counties. The piece includes quotes on source materials and touches on local civic notes and KU scholarship items.
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William Quantrill
Lawrence
Ottawa Library
William C. Pollard
Topeka
Quantrill
Ottawa
Pollard
Franklin County
Wellsville
Miami County
Kansas
Abraham Lincoln
Kansas faces rise in financially vulnerable farms
A USDA survey shows Kansas farms increasingly financially weak, with vulnerable-burdened farms more than doubling from 5 percent in 1988 to 11 percent in 1989, totaling about 7,590 farms. The share in favorable condition fell to 52 percent in 1989 while 62 percent had positive net incomes that year. Western Kansas led in high debt-to-asset ratios. eastern Kansas also showed elevated levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Corn
Harris
Topeka
Kansas
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Kansas Agricultural Statistics
Northern Plains
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Thiessen
KAS
USDA
Western
Eastern
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Children’s Mercy Hospital
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Gale
Doris Shelton
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Lillian Lantis
S. Main
The
China Decorator
China Painters
Lantis
Porce
Poncho’s
Haley Community Park
PRIDE
University of Kansas
Debrah L. Barr
Garnett
Robert Ord Christian
William J
Lydia A. Fausett
Darren Foltz
Stephen A. McGreevy
Osca Drug Co
Jean Selanders
Palmquist
Raymond Zwiener
KU Endowment
Ronald Huettenmueller
Greetey
Anschutz
Union Pacific
Laurie Morgan
Greeley
Edward A
Sara M. Dickman
Charles Buddy Rogers
Megan Chang
Emily V. Berger
Angela Clevenger
Cypress
Edwin Emery Slosson
Frank Franano
S. Locust
Wilson
Larsen
Walters
Janice Guthrie
Willon
Franklin E. Reed
Debra Nelson
RFD
Beatrice L. Boning
Greater University Fund
Joni Prue
S. Hickory
Elmer C. Rhoden
Jean Redeker
E. Wilson
Elizabeth M. Sanborn
Scott Schulte
E. 17Th Terr
Lydia Dye McBurney
Glen Seier
S. Cedar
Cynthia A. Wiklund
Watkins-Berger
Karen C. Young
Main
Margaret Scofield
Jonathan Becker
Pomona Rfd
Ruth C. Burdorff
Anita L. Collins
Pomona
Jennifer Cook
Julie Mettenburg
Princeton, Vance Publishing Co
Suzanne C. Bogle
Frank G. Crowell
Dan Jarrell
Dickinson Foundation
Christina Lawrenz
Nacds Pharmacy
Scott Vincent
Raymond Rice Foundation
Fouston, Sidkin Law Review
Cynthia Wedman
Wee Flinn
Heather L. Knight
Lyndon
Allison Lippert
Todd Colglazier
Osage City
Avis G. McPike
Christopher Colstrom
Janicke
Mark Peterson
Mildred Hoffman Brooker
Veep
Manhattan
Eric Lynan
Gannett
National Society of Black Engineers
Kansas State University
Lynam
KSU
Marlo
Showalter
Memphis
Tenn
Economic Research Service
Eldon Thiessen
SAULT
Yahoo
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Food Folks
FLIN
Bank IV
George Marshall
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