The Breadbasket of America

Usage examples of kansas.

Emigrant Aid Society in Massachusetts to encourage antislavery settlers to relocate in Kansas.

Felicity wanted to go to Kansas City and blast those bubbas with the best damn barbeque they had ever tasted.

The Kansas City Barbeque Guild rented the space and barbeque entrepreneurs shared it.

The acreage in front of the plant still held a few of the fences and posts from the animal pens that had subdivided the area long ago but mostly the field had been reclaimed by the Kansas prairie of mid-high grass, sedge, bluestem, and buffalo grass.

Senator Sam Brownback, a conservative Kansas Republican, has complained about this policy, and has introduced a bill to force the administration to spend half of its malaria budget on treatment.

Oliver, who has let his hair grow to his shoulders, I suppose to show what he thinks of Kansas, gives my father his coldest, coldest smile.

All the Castles built between 1921 and 1925 in Wichita, Omaha, and Kansas City were constructed from cement blocks on an identical ten-by-fifteen-foot floor plan, with the same crenellated facade and whitewashed exterior.

Certificates of Merit, a lifetime supply of FunTwinks cereal, and checks for a thousand New Dollars each, by Hizzoner the Governor of Kansas.

They were the Kansa Indians, which is why one river is called the Kansas, and the other is called Big Blue.

The municipal airport of Manhattan, Kansas, was low and brown and rectangular, and had a doorway that led direct from the runway.

Jonathan did not know there had once been a town in Kansas called Magic.

The Kansas River was called yellow, and Dorothy saw the two currents, yellow and blue mixing like colors in her paint box.

We never see him these days, running the entire state of Kansas by himself it seems!

Horace Henderson Wilcox, a Kansas prohibitionist, bought 120 acres near Los Angeles for his country home.

I think it is a measure of Kansas sympathy that everyone here managed to show.