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This handbook was published for possible immigrants to Kansas. It encouraged agricultural settlement in Wilson County by extolling the virtues of this 'beautiful Verdigris and Fall River region of Southeastern Kansas" and providing "a fair picture of the education, social, commercial, industrial and professional life, railways, markets and rapid material progress of a splendid country."
Creator: C. S. Burch Publishing Company
Date: 1886
Item Number: 225305
Call Number: CK 978.1 -W69 B89
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 225305
Collections - Library
Date - 1880s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Book
Places - Cities and towns - Altoona
Places - Cities and towns - Buffalo
Places - Cities and towns - Fredonia
Places - Cities and towns - Neodesha
Places - Counties - Wilson
Places - Regions - Southeast Kansas
Places - Rivers - Verdigris
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Printed materials - Books
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