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Free Download Ken Spurgeon, "A Kansas Soldier at War: The Civil War Letters of Christian & Elise Dubach Isely"
English | ISBN: 1540208370 | 2013 | 194 pages | EPUB | 1504 KB
When war broke out in 1861, Christian and Elise Dubach Isely, soon to be married, found themselves in the midst of the conflict. Having witnessed the atrocities of Bleeding Kansas firsthand and fearful of what would come from this war, Christian enlisted with the 2nd Kansas Cavalry to fight alongside Union forces. During the next three years, the couple would write hundreds of letters to each other, as well as to friends and family members. Their writings survive today, providing a unique look at the Civil War-one of both military and civilian perspectives-in a passionate exchange between husband and wife in which the war, faith and family are discussed openly and frankly.

Free Download A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CVJCHDM8 | 2024 | 11 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 339 MB
Author: David S. Brown
Narrator: Jacques Roy
The history of the United States includes a series of sectional compromises-the Constitutional Convention, the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and the Compromise of 1850. While these accords created an imperfect republic, or "a house divided," as Lincoln put it, the country remained united. But then in 1854, this three-generations system suddenly blew up with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and here, David Brown explores in riveting detail how the Act led to the sudden division of North and South. The Act declared that planters, if permitted by territorial laws, could bring their enslaved peoples to the land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains-the core of Jefferson’s old Louisiana Purchase which had been reserved for free labor. Northerners were shocked that free soil might now be turned over to slavery and responded with unprecedented backlash.

Free Download Hiking Kansas: A Guide to the State’s Greatest Hiking Adventures by Seth Brooks
English | June 4th, 2024 | ISBN: 1493077724 | 257 pages | True PDF | 31.50 MB
Hiking Kansas introduces hikers of all abilities to 40-45 of the greatest hiking adventures across the state. Complete with thorough hike descriptions, mile by mile directional cues, detailed maps and useful information on the surrounding area there is something for every hikers. Between rolling prairies, wooded river valleys, and an abundance of wildflowers and wildlife, a wealth of natural beauty awaits you on the hiking trails of Kansas.

Free Download Christine Wicker, "Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic Is Transforming America"
English | 2005 | pages: 289 | ISBN: 0060726784, 0739467301 | PDF | 0,8 mb
Magic has stepped out of the movies, morphed from the pages of fairy tales, and taken root in the modern mind. Soccer moms are getting voodoo head washings in their backyards, young U.S. soldiers send chants toward pagan gods of war, and a seem-ingly normal family has determined that they are in fact elves. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are turning toward the supernatural in new ways, blending the ancient and the modern for a hyper-charged spirituality. They are reaching back in time to powers that have sustained the human imagina-tion for thousands of years.

Free Download Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker By Stanley Crouch
2013 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0062005596 | EPUB | 4 MB
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.Throughout his life, Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: a revolutionary performer who used his alto saxophone to create a new music known as bebop even as he wrestled with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at the age of thirty-four.Drawing on interviews with peers, collaborators, and family members, Kansas City Lightning recreates Parker’s Depression-era childhood; his early days navigating the Kansas City nightlife, inspired by lions like Lester Young and Count Basie; and on to New York, where he began to transcend the music he had mastered. Crouch reveals an ambitious young man torn between music and drugs, between his domineering mother and his impressionable young wife, whose teenage romance with Charlie lies at the bittersweet heart of this story.With the wisdom of a jazz scholar, the cultural insights of an acclaimed social critic, and the narrative skill of a literary novelist, Stanley Crouch illuminates this American master as never before.

Free Download Kansas City Homes & Style – January-February 2024
English | 100 pages | True PDF | 360 MB

Free Download William H. Galligan, "Vision Accomplished: The History of Kansas City Southern "
English | ISBN: 0253068339 | 2024 | 376 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 8 MB

Free Download The Kansas City Barbeque Society Cookbook: 25th Anniversary Edition by Ardie A. Davis, Paul Kirk, Carolyn Wells
English | September 14, 2010 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B005EIS6IG | 628 pages | PDF | 22 Mb
"If there is one book that captures the heart and soul of authentic barbecue, this is the one. These are real recipes from real people.." -Adam Perry Lang, New York Times-bestselling author of Serious Barbecue

Free Download The Incorrigibles: Eugenics and Sterilization in the Kansas Industrial School for Girls by Ry Marcattilio-McCracken
English | October 1st, 2023 | ISBN: 1496230744 | 238 pages | True EPUB | 3.43 MB
Between September 1935 and June 1936, sixty-two girls from a reformatory in north-central Kansas were sterilized in the name of eugenics. None of the girls were habitual criminals, had multiple children, were living on social welfare, or were found to have IQs below seventy; in other words, almost none of them fit the categories usually described by eugenicists as justification for sterilization or covered by Kansas’s eugenic sterilization law. Yet no one at the time-including the reform school superintendent who ordered the procedures performed-had trouble defending the sterilizations as eugenically minded. The general public, however, found the justifications significantly more controversial after the story hit the newspapers.

Free Download The Kansas Blue Sky Act of 1911: An Experiment in Securities Regulation and its Impact by David Ress
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 161 Pages | ISBN : 3031438302 | 2.5 MB
This Palgrave Pivot presents the first in-depth study of the pioneering Kansas Blue Sky Act of 1911, the first effort in American financial history to regulate the sale of securities in the US. Though offering a balanced examination of critiques of the legislation as a barrier to individual liberty, interstate commerce, and economic growth, the author challenges the prevailing view of the Kansas Act as a complete anomaly, instead exploring sensitively what ‘blue sky laws’ can tell us about small-town market values during the nineteenth-century.