Kansas is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area.The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind", although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.
Kansas was first settled by European Americans in 1812, in what is the now Bonner Springs, Kansas, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. Kansas entered the Union as a free state so after the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when immigrants turned the prairie into farmland.
Today, Kansas is one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans. There is a lot of flat land and some rolling type hills around here, Junction City founded in 1857 is located in the heart of Kansas, Junction City sprang up around Fort Riley, an active duty post known as the birthplace of the 7th Cavalry. Named for its location at the junction of the Republican and Smoky Hills rivers and the junctions of of three railroads, the Kansas Pacific (going east-west); the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas (going south); and the Junction City and Fort Kearney (going north). Junction City is surrounded by history...a lot of the building here show it! We have been having loads of fun spending time with the grandkids....there is a lot of spoiling going on round here!
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