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Map and timetable of the Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Kansas Railroad line from Kansas City to Harper, Kansas. The route included branches to Lawrence, Burlington, Coffeyville, and Hunnewell. The company advertised itself as "passing through the great wheat belts of the Neosho and Arkansas Valleys to the grazing and cattle fields of south-western Kansas and Indian Territory." The company encouraged settlement along 150 miles of the Oklahoma border with descriptions of the soil and climate for those emigrating to southern Kansas.
Creator: Kansas City, Lawrence & Southern Railroad
Date: 1883
Item Number: 304415
Call Number: Port K 385 So8 K13 1883
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 304415
Agriculture
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Kansas City, Lawrence, and Southern Kansas
Business and Industry - Railroad - Immigration promotion
Business and Industry - Railroad - Timetables
Collections - Map
Community Life - Town development
Date - 1880s - 1883
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Map
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Timetable
Places - Cities and towns - Burlington
Places - Cities and towns - Chanute
Places - Cities and towns - Cherryvale
Places - Cities and towns - Coffeyville
Places - Cities and towns - Colony
Places - Cities and towns - Elk Falls
Places - Cities and towns - Garnett
Places - Cities and towns - Harper
Places - Cities and towns - Hunnewell
Places - Cities and towns - Independence
Places - Cities and towns - Iola
Places - Cities and towns - Kansas City
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Cities and towns - Moline
Places - Cities and towns - Olathe
Places - Cities and towns - Ottawa
Places - Cities and towns - Thayer
Places - Cities and towns - Winfield
Places - Counties - Allen
Places - Counties - Anderson
Places - Counties - Coffey
Places - Counties - Cowley
Places - Counties - Douglas
Places - Counties - Elk
Places - Counties - Franklin
Places - Counties - Harper
Places - Counties - Johnson
Places - Counties - Montgomery
Places - Counties - Neosho
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
Places - Other States - Oklahoma
Places - Regions - Neosho Valley
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Kansas City, Lawrence, & Southern Kansas
Transportation - Railroads - Immigration promotion
Transportation - Railroads - Timetables
Type of Material - Maps
Type of Material - Printed materials - Advertisements
Type of Material - Printed materials - Timetables
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