Cities on the plains: the evolution of urban Kansas

Systems of cities on the plains

The river towns to 1860

Lawrence, Topeka, and the placement of public institutions, 1854-1866

Railroad promotion and a reconceptualization of urban Kansas, 1863-1880

Later railroads and railroad towns, 1877-1910

Mining, irrigation, and newer institutional towns, 1876-1950

Urban consolidation in a railroad mode, 1880-1950

Postindustrial Kansas I: the interstate cities since 1950

Postindustrial Kansas II: life beyond the exit ramps.