KANSAS Third Grade Ms. Amy Horstick
State Facts Capitol: Topeka Admission to statehood: January 29, 1861 Bird: Western Meadowlark Flower: Sunflower Nickname: Sunflower State Tree: Cottonwood
Amelia Earhart Atchison, Kansas First woman to fly solo across Atlantic Ocean
William Allen White Emporia, Kansas Newspaper editor
Laura Ingalls Wilder Indian Territory, Kansas Traveled across prairie land with family
John Brown Osawatomie, Kansas Abolished slavery
Buffalo Bill Cody Leavenworth, Kansas Scout on the prairie
Susan B. Anthony Women’s Rights Campaigner Abolitionist Educational Performer
Bob Dole Russell, Kansas Kansas senator Nominee for president
Dwight D. Eisenhower Abilene, Kansas 34th President
Credits Famous Kansas, Women http://www.kshs.org/people/women.htm Kansas State Symbols Capital Constitution Flags Maps Song http://www.50states.com/kansas.htm Famous Kansas People http://www2.kansas.mcpherson.com/~kansas/famous.people/famous.peop.html William Allen White http://www.kshs.org/portraits/white_william.htm Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frontier Girl http://webpages.marshall.edu/~irby1/laura/frames.html John Brown http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html Buffalo Bill http://www.americanwest.com/pages/buffbill.htm Susan B. Anthony Biography http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/biography.shtml Bob Dole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dole Dwight D. Eisenhower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower