Kansas at a Glance
This WorldWeb.com travel and tourism
guide for Kansas, featuring hotels
and other
accommodations, tours,
attractions,
events,
shopping
and more, will help you plan a successful visit to the State of Kansas, U.S.A.
The State of Kansas offers its visitors more than just tornadoes and small
dogs. Kansas is known as the Wheat State, the Sunflower State, and the Jayhawker
State. Famous for its flat landscape, Kansas consists of carpets of billowing
wheat fields, herds of grazing cattle, humming oil derricks, and towering grain
storage elevators. Around each corner a piece of the Old West can be found in
one of the novel landmarks or living history presentations. The raucous times
of the Wild West are well depicted in Dodge City, settled by gunslingers, gamblers
and cattlemen. Lawless times inspired people such as Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson
to take charge and clean up the area. The best of these times are reenacted
at the annual Dodge City Days, complete with a rodeo. In East Kansas, visit
Atchison, the birthplace of the famous aviatrix Ameila Earhardt. Wichita, the
largest city in Kansas, is home to the Old Cowtown Museum, where one can step
back into the time period of 1865-1880. The state capital of Kansas is the city
of Topeka, with its pride being the Topeka Zoo.
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