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1931), on the faculty of Kansas State University, wrote Foal Creek (1972). 1910), is set in the fictional town of Gloriosa, c.

The Motoring Millers (1969), by Alberta W. 1915), of Lawrence, wrote Joe Sunpool (1956), about an Indian boy attending Haskell Institute (now Haskell Indian Nations University) in Lawrence.Īnother book about Native Americans, Blue Jacket, War Chief of the Shawnees (1969) is by Allan Eckert (b. 1880-1950), and Sod House Adventure (1956), by Bonnie Beas Worline (c. The 1950s saw such titles as Phantom Steer (1953), by Floyd Benjamin Streeter (1888-1956) and Helen D. Treasure Abroad (1931), by Charles Driscoll, is about boys camping on the Arkansas River near Wichita who discover a treasure in a buried ship. 1900-1970), of Partridge, wrote two “topsy turvy” books published by Rand-McNally, Topsy Turvy’s Pigtails (1930) and Topsy Turvy and the Tin Clown (1932).

1890-1960), is set near Sterling, and is a story of pioneer success in spite of hardships. Immortal Dream Dust, A Story of Pioneer Life on a Kansas Homestead (1931), by May Griffee Robinson (c. Henry Inman (1837-1899) of Topeka wrote The Ranch on the Oxhide, a story of Boys’ and Girls’ life on the Frontier (1921). Some specific titles include one of the earliest books for young people, Stories for Kansas Boys and Girls (1895), by Carolina Wade Baker (c. Oregon and Santa Fe trails, sod houses, cowboys and cattle drives, the Pony Express, and romanticized western figures associated with the state-Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, Wyatt Earp, and Wild Bill Hickok. Other early children’s literature focuses on equally iconic images of Kansas: the 1951) and My Life with Corpses, by Wylene Dunbar (b. Baum’s work has inspired several Kansas and/or Oz-based books for adult readers: Wicked, by Gregory Maguire (b.

Although his opening description of Kansas is probably the bleakest of any writer on the state, Baum also gave Kansas the distinction of being the home of Dorothy’s line: “There is no place like home.” And, of course, the less flattering, “Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.” Baum included the Kansas setting in three other Oz books (see “Oz and Kansas Culture,” by Thomas Fox Averill, Kansas History, Vol. Frank Baum (1856-1919), who set foot in Kansas only once, as an actor with a traveling theater company, set The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) in the state, most likely so as not to offend relatives who still lived in Aberdeen, South Dakota Territory, which is probably the region he was describing as gray, flat, dull and humorless. Uncharacteristically, the government forced the Ingalls to move, but the experience, remembered many years later, became Little House on the Prairie (1935). Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957), lived on Cherokee land about 14 miles from Independence, Kansas, in 1869-1870. Kansas children and young adult literature is dominated in the public mind by the two iconic books set in the state. For specific kinds of Kansas literature, see: