1. KANSAS
Third Grade
Ms. Amy Horstick

2. State Facts Capitol: Topeka Admission to statehood: January 29, 1861
Bird: Western Meadowlark
Flower: Sunflower
Nickname: Sunflower State
Tree: Cottonwood

3. Amelia Earhart Atchison, Kansas
First woman to fly solo across Atlantic Ocean

4. William Allen White
Emporia, Kansas
Newspaper editor

5. Laura Ingalls Wilder Indian Territory, Kansas
Traveled across prairie land with family

6. John Brown
Osawatomie, Kansas
Abolished slavery

7. Buffalo Bill Cody
Leavenworth, Kansas
Scout on the prairie

8. Susan B. Anthony Women’s Rights Campaigner Abolitionist
Educational Performer

9. Bob Dole
Russell, Kansas
Kansas senator
Nominee for president

10. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Abilene, Kansas
34th President

11. Credits Famous Kansas, Women http://www.kshs.org/people/women.htm
Kansas State Symbols Capital Constitution Flags Maps Song
Famous Kansas People
William Allen White
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frontier Girl
John Brown
Buffalo Bill
Susan B. Anthony Biography
Bob Dole
Dwight D. Eisenhower