A Guide to Salina, Kansas

A Guide to Salina, Kansas
Author: Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Kansas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1939
Genre: Salina (Kan.)
ISBN:
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Salina & Saline County Kansas Fishing & Floating Guide Book

Salina & Saline County Kansas Fishing & Floating Guide Book
Author: Jim Maccracken
Publisher: Recreational Guides
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2016-12-26
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:
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Saline County Kansas Fishing & Floating Guide Book Over 350 full 8 ½ x 11 sized pages of information with maps and aerial photographs available. Fishing information is included for ALL of the county’s public ponds and lakes, listing types of fish for each pond or lake, average sizes, and exact locations with GPS coordinates and directions. Also included is fishing information for most of the streams and rivers including access points and public areas with road contact and crossing points and also includes fish types and average sizes. NEW NEW Now with a complete set of 13 full sized U.S.G.S. Topographical Maps for the entire county that normally cost from $12.00 to $14.00 each but are included on the disk for FREE. These maps are complete full sized 7.5 minute series quadrangle maps in 1:24,000 scale maps. Contains complete information on Gypsum Creek Kentucky Creek Mullberry Creek Salina City Park Lakes Saline County State Fishing Lake Saline River (F) Smoky Hill River (F) Solomon Rivers (F) and Spring Creek (F) means floatable river

Salina, 1858-2008

Salina, 1858-2008
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Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738561813
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Early in 1858, three men walked across the eastern half of Kansas Territory intent on starting a town. Although the volatile conflict between Free State and proslavery forces still simmered, the bloodshed had abated, and Free State factions had gained the upper hand. People turned their interests to more peaceful pursuits, including town building. Armed with a compass and stovepipe hat instead of a tripod, the three young Scotsmen selected and surveyed a town site along the Smoky Hill River, near the confluence of the Saline River in north-central Kansas. The tiny settlement soon became a way-stop for westbound travelers and a hub of activity for hunters, soldiers, land seekers, and surveyors. Now 150 years later, Salina (pronounced with a long i) still thrives as a center for commercial, cultural, civic, and social activity. Voted an All-America City in 1989, Salina is home to nearly 50,000 people who enjoy midwestern living in the heart of America.

The Dream and the Deal

The Dream and the Deal
Author: Jerre Mangione
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1996-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780815604150
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Operating in every state in the union for eight turbulent years, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project provided needed jobs for more than 10,000 writers and would-be writers (among them Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright) and produced some 1,200 published books and pamphlets, including the magnificent American Guide Series, which gave the nation its first self-portrait. Nominated for the National Book Award in history, The Dream and the Deal is available to a new generation of readers, and includes a selected checklist of 400 Writers' Project publications.

Salina's Historic Downtown

Salina's Historic Downtown
Author: Mary Clement Douglass
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467110035
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Salina got its name from the Saline River that flows north of town. Its founders were a close-knit group of Scotsmen related by blood or marriage; most came to America from southwestern Scotland between 1839 and 1854 and settled in Randolph County, Illinois. Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune sent correspondent William A. Philips from Randolph County to Lawrence, Kansas, to cover the turmoil caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and the doctrine of popular sovereignty. The residents of Kansas were to choose whether the territory would come into the Union as a slaveholding or free-soil state. To affect that outcome, both Southerners and Northern abolitionists sent colonies of settlers to Kansas Territory. Out of this conflict was born the Salina Town Company. William A. Philips, his brother David, his sister Christina, and his brothers-in-law Alexander C. Spilman and Alexander M. Campbell, along with close friend James Muir, preempted a 320-acre town site in north central Kansas in 1858. From humble beginnings grew the largest commercial center in the area: Salina.

Cities on the Plains

Cities on the Plains
Author: James R. Shortridge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:
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"Drawing on rich historical research filtered through cultural geography, Shortridge looks at the 118 communities that ever achieved a population of 2,500 and unravels the many factors that influenced the growth of urban Kansas. He tells how mercantilism dominated urban thinking in territorial days until after statehood, when cities competed for the capital, prisons, universities, and other institutions. He also shows how geography and size were employed by entrepreneurs and government officials to prepare strategies for economic development. And he describes how the railroads especially promoted the founding of cities in the nineteenth century - and how this system has fared since 1950 in the face of globalization and the growth of interstate highways."--BOOK JACKET.