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Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 07:20:29 PST
Dear Friends,
I am from Kansas. It is a state in the United States. Our State is the #1 producer in wheat.
I am from Medicine Lodge a small town about 80 miles away from Wichita.
The United States has 50 states. Kansas is the 34th state. It united in 1861.
Aaron Woods
Medicine Lodge, Kansas
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 12:14:30 PST
Dear friend,
My name is Chase Hall. I live in Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
Bill Graves is the governor of Kansas.
There are many different occupations like farming, ranching, hospital, and other things.
Chase Hall
Medicine Lodge, Kansas
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:42:23 PST
Dear Friends,
I live in Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
Kansas is the first state in producing wheat.
In Medicine Lodge, we have the Gyp Hills. They are hills with a bunch of gyp rocks in them.
We have a population of about 2500 people in Medicine Lodge.
We have a lot of farmers here.
Your friend,
Dina Morford
Medicine Lodge, Kansas
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:22:25 PST
Dear friend
Kansas has a population of 2,477,574 people.
Kansas landscape is mostly plains.
The occupations for Medicine Lodge Kansas is Natinal Gypsum, Hospital, and USD 254.
Jordon Prather
Medicine Lodge, Kansas
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:08:19 PST
Dear Keypal,
On January 29th, 1861 the state Kansas became the 34th state.
Some of the products produced in kansas are: wheat, corn, soybeans, sugar, beets, oats, alfalfa, rye, and barley are the largest amounted agricultural products produced.
Kansas ranges in elevation from 680 feet in southeast Montgermery Count; to 4,039 feet on the top of Mount Sunflower, in western Kansas' Wallace County.
The population of Kansas in 1860 was 107,206 and now in 1990 is 2,477,574 people.
Some on Kansas' nicknames are the Bread Basket, Sunflower State, the Wheat State, Jayhawker State, and the Midaway U.S.A.
The state flower is the sunflower.
The state bird is the western meadowlark.
The state tree is the cottonwood.
The state animal is the buffalo.
The state song is "Home on the Range."
The original name is named after the Indians that the Sioux called Kansas, meaning "people of the south wind."
In Kansas there are 105 counties.
Your Pal,
Michael Hommertzheim
Medicine Lodge, Kansas
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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 09:23:04 PST
Hi!!!!!!!
My name is Jay Dohrmann and I am a boy. I am from Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
Our major product is wheat and our product that we mine the most is gyp. We use wheat in the bread that we use for sandwiches.
We use gyp for the walls so we can build a house to live in.
In Kansas our landscape is flat, but we have a few hills.
The Kansas flag consists of a dark blue field with the state seal in the middle. 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 representing agriculture. A wagon train heads west, and buffalo are seen fleeing from two Indians.
Around the top of the seal a cluster of thirty-four stars. The state motto is a saying that goes like Ad Astra per Aspera, Latin word meaning "to the stars through Difficulties."
Write back soon!!!!!
Jay Dohrmann
Medicine Lodge, Kansas
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From Teacher Pam Harris, Belle Plaine, Kansas :
STATE FLOWER: Sunflower-we have twelve types of
sunflowers that grow in Kansas.
STATE NAME: People of the south wind.
STATE SONG: Home on the range.
STATE BIRD: Western Meadowlark
STATE TREE: Cottonwood.
STATE REPTILE: Box Turtle
STATE ANIMAL: Buffalo
Kansas became the 34th state on Jan. 29, 1861
Kansas is famous for many historic trails, such as The Chisholm Trail, Lewis and Clark Route, Oregon Trail, Pony Express Route, Sante Fe Trail, we also have a lot of famous forts.
Some of the tourist sites are Big Brutus in Columbus Ks. this is one of the three tallest coal shovels in the world.
In Dodge City there is Boot Hill Museum and the Gunfighters wax museum.
One of the Presidents of the United States was Dwight D. Eisenhower and he was from Abilene, Kansas.
The famous gunfighters The Dalton Gang had their hideout in Meade, Ks this is complete with hidden tunnels and gun collections.
We also have the worlds largest hand dug well, and the biggest ball of twine it weighs over 7 ton, not to mention the yellow brick road, Dorothys House and Laura Ingalls Wilder homestead of The Little House on the Prairie books.
Some famous Kansans were: "Buffalo Bill" Cody- sharpshooter, lndian scout, Wyatt Earp-US Marshal, Wild Bill Hickok-Notorious gunfighter, Kirstie Alley-television actress, Emmett Kelly-Clown, Mike Love- member of the Beach Boys, Amelia Earhart-first woman pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, Wilt Chamberlain- Professional Basketball player,
Kansas is among the national leaders in wheat production, it would take a freight train stretching from Kansas to the Atlantic Ocean to contain all the wheat grown in Kansas in a single year.
Kansas has more than 6 million cattle and is among the leading producers of red meat.
The grasshopper and the chinch bug have been the most destructive invaders in Kansas farm fields.
The other major crops produced in Kansas are sorghum, corn and soybeans.
Pam Harris
Belle Plaine, Kansas
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