What to see in America . s first calaboose was a well fifteenfeet deep into which drunks were lowered to stay until theysobered off. Sometimes this unique prison contained half adozen inmates. When Dodge came into being it was in thevery heart of the buffalo country. A good hunter could make$100 a day slaughtering the buffaloes. Their ancient rangeextended from the Alleghenies to the Rocky Mountains andcompletely across the United States north into Canada andsouth into Mexico. Early travelers in the West have seenthe prairie black from horizon to horizon with the shaggymonsters. Kansas ranks f
What to see in America . s first calaboose was a well fifteenfeet deep into which drunks were lowered to stay until theysobered off. Sometimes this unique prison contained half adozen inmates. When Dodge came into being it was in thevery heart of the buffalo country. A good hunter could make$100 a day slaughtering the buffaloes. Their ancient rangeextended from the Alleghenies to the Rocky Mountains andcompletely across the United States north into Canada andsouth into Mexico. Early travelers in the West have seenthe prairie black from horizon to horizon with the shaggymonsters. Kansas ranks first among the states as a producer ofwheat. It bears an Indian name which means SmokyWater. People call it the Sunflower State because ofthe abundance of wild sunflowers there. The nickname forits inhabitants is Jay Hawkers, a sobriquet applied inearly times to those who carried on guerrilla warfare in theregion. It attains its greatest height, 4135 feet, about mid-way on the western boundary. 320 What to See in America.
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