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Driving Across Kansas: A Guide to I-70 by Ted Cable, Wayne A. Maley (Paperback, 2003)

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In his introduction to Dan Dancer's The Four Seasons of Kansas, bestselling author William Least Heat-Moon reflects upon the Great Kansas Passage of those who race their cars westward across Interstate 70 without trying to understand the truth of the place. Ted Cable and Wayne Maley come to the rescue of those bored and blinkered speed-driven travelers with a new guide that will expand and enrich their understanding of a state whose history, in Heat-Moon's words, is a tumbling of guns, torches, hatchets, and knives. Guided by Cable and Maley, the historical landscapes of I-70 come back to life, recalling landmarks and legacies relating to pioneer movements and Indian dispossession, army outposts and great bison hunts, cowboys and cattle trails, the struggles over slavery and women's rights, and the emergence of major wheat, beef, oil, and water industries. Their guide parcels out information, mile-marker by mile-marker, in a way that's equally accessible to westbound and cast-bound users alike. For example: 85 Grinnell - In 1872, Grinnell had two large sod buildings for drying buffalo meat. The air was so dry here that meat could be stripped off in layers and hung to dry. The dried meat would be preserved and t spoil. This was critical in the days before coolers and refrigerators. People called this meat jerked meat because of the way it was torn from the buffalo's carcass. Today at gas stations or convenience stores along I-70 you have the opportunity to buy similar jerked meat in the form of beef jerky. 117 Capturing an Iron Horse - In this area, along the railroad track paralleling I-70 to the rth, Indians tried in 1868 to capture a locomotive alive by taking telegraph wire, doubling it back and forth several times, and stretching it across the track with an Indian or two holding each end. Needless to say, the iron horse running at full steam, tore through the snare like a rampaging buffalo through a spider web. 298 Fort Riley - Ft. Riley's cavalry school became the only one in the United States and largest in the world. Horse soldiers were trained until 1950 when all the units became mechanized. Because of the emphasis on horses, the fort produced the U.S. Olympic equestrian team for every Olympics between 1894 and 1947. 194 The Clock House - The house was built from a kit in 1905. The initial owners ordered the kit from Sears Roebuck. All the parts, including window glass and doors, were shipped by rail to Lecompton, then hauled the final six miles by horse and wagon to this site...In 1908 it won the national Farm House of the Year award. Like the ever popular Roadside Kansas (see page 54). Driving across Kansas will reward the observant traveler with a treasure trove of details sure to increase his or her appreciation for the great Sunflower State.

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University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10
0700612602
ISBN-13
9780700612604
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94436790

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Author
Ted Cable, Wayne A. Maley
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
General Atlases & Maps (Not Folded)
Type
Textbook

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340g
Height
216mm
Width
140mm

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Place of Publication
Kansas
Spine
18mm
Content Note
75 Photographs and Sketches
Author Biography
Ted T. Cable is a professor of Park Management and Conservation at Kansas State University and author of Interpretation for the 21st Century. Wayne Maley is the director of special projects for the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the author of A Companion's Guide for Travelling I-80: Iowa Really Isn't Boring.
Date of Publication
31/05/2003
Country of Publication
United States
Genre
General Atlases & Maps (Not Folded)

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