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The immigration restriction and the quota laws of the 1920s: justification and constitutionality; a reinterpretation

Lutke, N. W. (Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2005-04-22)
A bunch of garbage? How Sedgwick County's trash came to be exported and its innovator ignored

Gumm, Angela Shannon (Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2006-04-28)
“Hitch your wagon to a star:” the Kansas boom of 1887.

Chennell, Charles Luke (Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2007-04-27)

Kansas experienced a major boom in the late 1880s that touched nearly every aspect of economic and social life in the state. Wichita, for instance, was the third fastest growing city in the nation barring none. Other ...
Scourge of the Osage from the hand that held the quill: The economic survival of the Osage Indians concerning their transformation from warlords to landlords in the nineteenth century

Stephanopoulos, Athena Theodota (Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2008-04-25)

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the Osage nation found itself embroiled in heavy trading and combat with Europe and neighboring tribes. While intricate negotiations usually smoothed over problematic agreements ...