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Kansas Poetry
"Nothing in the Paper" by Albert Stroud
Verdigris Valley Verse
(Coffeyville, Kansas: The Journal Press. 1917)
One of many poems in the Poetry collection on Blue Skyways. 
Sunflower--© Diane Howell Sunflower--© Diane Howell
KANSAS - as big as you think 34th state: January 29, 1861     Area: 82,264 square miles   
Population: (1900) 1,470,495 · (1990) 2,447,574 · (2000) 2,688,418
State Capital:  Topeka
 
Governor: Mark Parkinson

Motto: Ad Astra per Aspera  (To the stars through difficulties)
Amphibian
Barred
Tiger
Salamander 		Animal
American
Buffalo		 Bird
Western
Meadowlark		 Flower
Wild
Native
Sunflower		 Grass
Little
Bluestem		 Insect
Honeybee		 Reptile
Ornate
Box
Turtle		 Soil
Harney
Silt
Loam		   Song 
Home
on the
Range		    Tree   
Cotton-
wood
 
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