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Kansas:
Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado arrived here in 1541. He was followed in 1682 by the explorer La Salle, who then claimed the land for France.

Regardless of country claims, in the mid-1700s and early 1800s, Kansas was still a wide-open Indian territory, and tens of thousands of buffalo roamed the vast plains.

When the U.S. bought Kansas from France in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase, a few decades later, thousands of settlers from the east began flooding the territory.

Today, Kansas is often referred to as the "World's Breadbasket" because of its huge amounts of grain production.

The Sunflower State is also famed worldwide for aircraft manufacturing in the Wichita area, and the meat-packing centers of Kansas City.

Located at the crossroads of America's future and historic past, Kansas is a fabled land of cattle drives and cowboys - replete with names and places like Abilene, Bat Masterson, Dodge City, Wild Bill Hickock and Wyatt Earp.

Kansas

The Kansas flag, adopted in 1925, consists of a dark blue field with the state seal in the center.

A sunflower on a bar of twisted gold lies above the seal, and below the seal is the word Kansas.

The seal contains a landscape that includes a rising sun, representing the east; and a river and steamboat, representing commerce. In the foreground, a settler's cabin and a man plowing a field represent agriculture. A wagon train heads west and buffalo are seen fleeing from two Indians. Around the top of the seal is a cluster of 34 stars.

Official name: Kansas
Capital: Topeka
Statehood: Jan. 29, 1861 the 34th state
State nickname: The Sunflower State
Name for residents: Kansans
State motto: Ad astra per aspera
(To the stars through difficulty)
Abbreviation: KS

Kansas's Historical Event's:

about 8000 bc Humans first appear in Kansas.
1541 Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado reaches Quivira, located in central Kansas.
1682 René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, claims all of the Mississippi drainage basin, including Kansas, for France.
1762 France cedes its lands west of the Mississippi River to Spain.
1803 The United States acquires the Kansas region as part of the Louisiana Purchase.
1804 The Lewis and Clark expedition reaches the junction of the Missouri and Kansas rivers.
1806 An expedition led by Zebulon M. Pike crosses Kansas.
1820s The Santa Fe Trail across Kansas comes into use as a trade route.
1854 The Kansas-Nebraska Act establishes the Kansas and Nebraska territories. Settlers of rival proslavery and free-soil factions begin settling in the Kansas Territory.
1856 A proslavery force raids the Free State community of Lawrence, setting off several violent incidents in "Bleeding Kansas."
1859 The long battle over a state constitution ends with the adoption of the Wyandotte constitution.
1861 Kansas enters the Union as the 34th state (January 29).
1867 Cattle drives begin to Abilene, the first of the Kansas cow towns.
1874 Immigrants from southern Russia introduce a drought-resistant strain of winter wheat into Kansas.
1890s Kansans elect two Populist-Democratic candidates to the governorship.
1930s A long drought and high winds create dust-bowl conditions in western Kansas.
1940s The manufacture of aircraft becomes one of the state's major economic activities.
1957 The U.S. Supreme Court orders desegregation of U.S. schools in decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
1972 Robert Docking becomes the first state governor to be reelected to a fourth term.
1995 Casino gambling on Native American reservations becomes legal.

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