The Great State of Kansas

[W. Gray]

My nephew recently sent this photo to me labeling it as "The Great State of Kansas."

I had to chuckle.

[Wilma]

Sorry he missed the best part of the state.

[flintauqua]

Remember "Kansas . . . As Big As You Think!"

[W. Gray]

When I was working at the Defense Finance Center in Denver, everyone I knew there believed that Kansas was flat and boring.

When these people went to Kansas it was usually a trip through on I-70.

When I would try to tell them the rest of the state, especially the southeast, was very nice territory everyone chuckled. They could not be convinced.

There was also a standing joke that when someone lived a distance to the east of Denver and commuted to work at the center they were known as living in Kansas because of the mileage they traveled.

Much of the state of Colorado east of Denver along I-70 looks like the photo.

[Diane Amberg]

Yup, I made the mistake once of taking a bus from Topeka to Denver...Thought I was going to die from lack of sensory input!

[Teresa]

When we are traveling, and I tell people where we are.. I ALWAYS add the fact that we are from the pretty part of Kansas.. with lots of hills and trees. And I add that we are an hour and a half north of Oklahoma.. That goes ahead and gives validation that we are close to trees. LOL

[W. Gray]

An account I have read about the Osage being moved from southeast Kansas to Indian Territory in 1870/71 is that the tribe was quite disappointed with the move because their new territory was not as nice or as productive as what they had left in Kansas.

[jpbill]

Little did the Osage tribe know but their new reservation was sitting on a lake of black gold.