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• Kansas

Geographical center of the United States, Kansas is also, in many points, its spiritual center. It is in Kansas that we can find, in the middle of an authentic meadow with high pastures, the breedings of cattle pointing out the Old West atmosphere.
Capital : Topeka
Surface : 213,110 km²
Population : 2,594,840
Wichita : 304,011
Kansas City : 149,767
Topeka : 119,883
Carte : Kansas
infos
State Attractions
Abilene
Dodge City
Eisonhower Center
Fort Larned
Fort Leavenworth
Historical Santa Fe
Kansas City
Old Cowtown Museum
Pony Express
  
 

Kansas City

Founded by the Wyandotte Indians in 1886, the city was initially called Wyandotte before renamed Kansas City in 1886. Within proximity is the lake Wyandotte, the widest of the State.

The arrival in Kansas City is marked by the towers of eight grain silos.

Visit the Shawnee Methodist Mission which was once a school for Indians.


Agricultural Hall of Fame - Kansas

The Agricultural Hall of Fame and National Center, which emphasizes the paramount role of agriculture in the United States, exposes the most incredible collection of agricultural machinery of the world. Demonstrations of the farming techniques, old or more recent ones.
 

Topeka

Topeka, the capital, is located at 102 km in the west of Kansas City. Kansas Historical Museum presents beautiful exposures on the life of the Indians and the pioneers of the past.

State House contains many artworks.


Maison du Président Eisenhower - Kansas

Abilene

160 km in the west of Topeka lies Abilene. In this formerly famous city for his large cattle market, President Eisenhower was born and passed his childhood. We can visit the Eisenhower Center, constituted of the family house, a museum and a library.

 

Old Abilene Town - Kansas

In Old Abilene Town was reconstituted a replica of the old cattle market, from a time when the city was still the center of cattle transit, with crossed tracks of the Wild West and railway intended for the transport of the herds.

 

Wichita

Approximately 112 km in the south is Wichita, the largest city of Kansas, with its 250,000 inhabitants.

Wichita Art Association has two galleries of fine art and a theatre for children.



Dodge City - Kansas

Dodge City

Dodge City, 265 km in the west of Wichita, is in the middle of the wheat production area, on the Arkansas River where herds of longhorn once came to drink water.

Dodge City was the most active among the cattle markets in the border. Cowboys, buffalo hunters, outlaws and renegades used to see each other and came to brisk contact there, careless and free.

 

The most famous representatives of the law like Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson had the worst difficulties of bringing back the order there.

Visit Boot Hill, cemetery of trigger jokers, and the prison of Old Fort Dodge transformed into museum.

 

 

 

 

Dodge City en 1874 - Kansas

  
  Credits : Jim Tanis -H Schuster
  

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