kansas

Nessa leaves her orphanage in 1865 and settles in the little town of Prairie River, Kansas, where she relies on her Christian faith to help her survive on the frontier.

An account of the murders of the four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959 by two drifters who fled to Mexico and were later arrested and executed for their crimes.

Margaret Chambers returns to her hometown to teach in the small, one-room school building, but the God-fearing citizens are threatened by Margaret, and their plans to run her out of town take a dangerous turn.

Thirteen-year-old Drew, determined to help his family hold onto their farm in the drought-stricken Dust Bowl of 1934, stubbornly tends his livestock and refuses to give up hope.

During December and January, a young mole in Kansas spends her waking hours searching for food in her network of underground tunnels.

Presents a memoir in which Steven Church recalls his childhood and youth in Lawrence, Kansas, discussing his obsession with the "Guinness Book of World Records," his imaginative theories on the motivations of the record holders, and his own attempts to find his place between his larger-than-life brother and father.

Orry, a ten-year-old boy living in Kansas during the Great Depression, grows tired of having to stay inside because of the dust and takes his stepsister on an outing, only to become caught in the black blizzard that ravaged the drought-stricken area on April 14, 1935.

When Matt's father dies in 1881, he and his mother decide to stay on their Kansas homestead despite the perils of life on that frontier.

These accounts of the daily lives of Kansas pioneer women are selected from 800 memoirs collected by the author's great-grandmother.

In 1885 in Kansas, seventeen-year-old Tom, the son of a poor farmer, is hired as a cowboy on a cattle ranch and faces the challenges of both herding work and a forbidden romance with sixteen-year-old Evie, the ranch owner's independently-minded daughter.