University Press Of Kansas imprint: 325 books
Transforming the University of Kansas
A History, 1965-2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Sitting atop Mount Oread, the University of Kansas stands as a monument to the determination of the state's earliest settlers to build for the future. As a "city on a hill," the university has also mirrored both American society's hopes and its fears—and never has this been truer than...
Frontier Manhattan
Yankee Settlement to Kansas Town, 1854-1894
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
When Isaac Goodnow and five fellow New Englanders arrived at the junction of the Kansas and Big Blue rivers in March of 1855, they pitched a tent and launched a town. Harassment and homesickness almost drove them back east, but they held their ground to establish an anti-slavery and educational stronghold:...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
From Kanorado to Pawnee villages, Kansas is a land rich in archaeological sites—nearly 12,000 known—that testify to its prehistoric heritage. This volume presents the first comprehensive overview of Kansas archaeology in nearly fifty years, containing the most current descriptions and interpretations...
The New Kansas Cookbook
Rural Roots, Modern Table
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Nearly thirty years ago, cooking team Frank and Jayni Carey gave us The Kansas Cookbook: Recipes from the Heartland, a classic, much-loved volume chronicling the state’s favorite recipes and food traditions. Now they’re back with The New Kansas Cookbook: Rural Roots, Modern Table, a look at modern...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
In 1854, after recently arriving from England, twenty-two-year-old Reuben Smith traveled west, eventually making his way to Kansas Territory. There he found himself in the midst of a bloody prelude to the Civil War, as Free Staters and defenders of slavery battled to stake their claim. The young Englishman...
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri
The Long Civil War on the Border
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Long before the first shot of the Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter, violence had already erupted along the Missouri-Kansas border—a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and revenge. This multifaceted study brings together fifteen scholars to expand our understanding of this vitally...
Driving across Kansas
A Guide to I-70?Revised and Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
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...
by Mark Eberle
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
As baseball was becoming the national pastime, Kansas was settling into statehood, with hundreds of towns growing up with the game. The early history of baseball in Kansas, chronicled in this book, is the story of those towns and the ballparks they built, of the local fans and teams playing out the...
The Last Wild Places of Kansas
Journeys into Hidden Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Since the last wild bison found refuge on the back of a nickel, the public image of natural Kansas has progressed from Great American Desert to dust bowl to flyover country that has been landscaped, fenced, and farmed. But look a little harder, George Frazier suggests, and you can find the last places...
Wide-Open Town
Kansas City in the Pendergast Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Kansas City is often seen as a mild-mannered metropolis in the heart of flyover country. But a closer look tells a different story, one with roots in the city— complicated and colorful past. The decades between World Wars I and II were a time of intense political, social, and economic change—for...
Beyond Cold Blood
The KBI from Ma Barker to BTK
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Ma Barker and Pretty Boy Floyd once shot their way across the state, and Bonnie and Clyde were known to travel within its borders. Between 1933 and 1938, thirty bank robberies occurred in Kansas, while livestock thefts also grew at an alarming rate. Little wonder, then, that pressure was brought to...
Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and Buffalo
A Frontier Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Nearing 60, William D. Street (1851-1911) sat down to write his memoir of frontier life. Street's early years on the plains of western Kansas were both ordinary and extraordinary; ordinary in what they reveal about the everyday life of so many who went out to the western frontier, extraordinary in...
Justice on Fire
The Kansas City Firefighters Case and the Railroading of the Marlborough Five
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime...
The Last Cattle Drive
30th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
First published in 1977, Robert Day's The Last Cattle Drive—an instant bestseller and Book-of-the-Month Club selection—is now a modern-day Western classic. This raucous, rollicking novel of a cattle drive in the age of the automobile revived a genre and added its own special twists in capturing...