Kansas
209 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Carry Nation: Prohibition's Most Dangerous Weapon
- Dwight Eisenhower: Abilene's Gift to the World
- The Flint Hills: The Last Tallgrass Prairie
- The Kansa, the Osage, and the People of the South Wind
- The Land Itself: Reading the Kansas Landscape
- The Long Drive: Cattle, Cowboys, and the Kansas Cow Towns
- The Oregon and California Trails: The Great Migration
- The Populist Revolt: Kansas and the Farmer's Last Stand
- The Santa Fe Trail: America's Commercial Highway
- Turkey Red: The Mennonites and the Wheat That Made Kansas
- What Kansas Means
- Wichita and the Air Capital of the World
Near Abilene
- Abilene, Kansas: First Cowtown, President's Hometown
- Abilene's Choice: When the Farmers Won
- Bear River Tom: The Marshal Who Used His Fists
- Eisenhower's Abilene
- End of the Texas Cattle Trail
- Joseph McCoy and the Invention of the Cowtown
- The Parker Carousel: Abilene's Merry-Go-Round King
- Wild Bill Hickok and the Night of October Fifth
Near Dodge City
- Dodge City: Queen of the Cowtowns
- Five Million Longhorns: The Western Cattle Trail
- Fort Atkinson: First Fort on the Santa Fe Trail
- From Cowboys to Cattle Plants: Dodge City After the Drives
- Long Branch Saloon: Dodge City's Most Famous Watering Hole
- The Buffalo Slaughter: Dodge City's First Industry
- The Dodge City War and the Peace Commission
- Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Boot Hill
Near Kansas City
- Bonner Springs: Named for a New York Editor
- Kansas City, Kansas: The Wyandot Nation's Last Stand Against Erasure
- Kansas Speedway: Two Hundred Twenty-Five Million Dollars in Wyandotte County
- Lenexa: Named for a Shawnee Woman
- Mission, Kansas
- Olathe and the Border Wars
- Quindaro Townsite
- The Fontaine Fox Line: Toonerville and the Suburb That Imagined Itself
- The Stockyards and the 1951 Flood
Near Wichita
- Andover's F5: The Tornado That Almost Hit Nuclear Bombers
- Belle Plaine: Oldest City in Sumner County
- Carry Nation's Hatchet: Smashing the Hotel Carey
- Coleman's Light: From Law School to a Hundred Million Campsites
- Cowtown: The Wildest Six Years on the Plains
- Eastborough: An English Village in Kansas
- Haysville: W. W. Hays Plants a Town
- Jesse Chisholm and the Trail That Named a City
- Kansas Sports Hall of Fame: From Naismith to Wilt to Barry Sanders
- Keeper of the Plains: Blackbear Bosin at the Sacred Confluence
- McConnell Air Force Base: Named for Brothers Who Flew and Fell
- People of the Grass House: The Wichita Before the City
- Pizza Hut: Eight Letters and Six Hundred Dollars
- The Air Capital: When Wichita Built the World's Planes
- The Air Capital's Art Deco Crown
- The Allen House: Frank Lloyd Wright's Last Prairie
- The Allen-Lambe House: Wright's Last Prairie
- The Andover Tornado
- The Cotillion Ballroom: Wichita's Round Mound of Sound
- The Dockum Sit-In: The First Victory That Nobody Heard About
- The Killing of Dr. George Tiller
- The Wichita Vortex: Cold War Bombers Over the Plains
- Two Rivers, One City: Wichita's Fault Lines and Reinventions
- White Castle: The Burger That Changed American Eating
- Wichita Incorporated: The Town That Came From Nowhere
- Wichita: The Air Capital of the World
Along the way
- A Little Sister of Liberty
- Allen County Jail: Two-Foot Stone Walls Since 1869
- Atomic Annie
- Aunt Sally's Landing
- Battle of Marais des Cygnes
- Battle of Marmiton River: The Last Day of Price's Raid
- Battle of Mine Creek
- Baxter Springs: Quantrill's Last Massacre
- Bethel College: The Mennonites Who Fed America
- Breezedale Historic District
- Brewster: Named for the Man Who Laid the Rails
- Camp Funston and the Great Flu
- Camp Funston: Where the Pandemic May Have Started
- Cassoday: Prairie Chicken Capital of the World
- Chase County and the Bluestem Pastures
- Cherokee County, Kansas — Coal and Lead Country
- Cheyenne County: Last of the Buffalo Range
- Christ Pilot Me Hill
- Cimarron National Grassland: The Dry Cutoff and the Road the Buffalo Road Became
- Cofachique: Allen County's First Town and Its Bleeding Kansas Downfall
- Collyer: The Preacher's Veterans Colony
- Council Grove and the Santa Fe Trail
- Dalton Gang Hideout, Meade
- Dole Institute of Politics: A Kansas Giant's Legacy
- Edgerton, Kansas: Born When the Railroad Moved On
- El Cuartelejo: The Northernmost Spanish Adobe in North America
- El Dorado and the First Science Oil Strike
- Elizabeth Krebs, Mother of Modern Halloween
- Ellis, Kansas: The Town That Built Walter Chrysler
- Emporia Granada Theatre
- Emporia State and the Kansas Normal School
- Emporia State: The Teachers' University
- Emporia: The Sage of the Flint Hills
- Emporia: Will White and the Sage of the Flint Hills
- Erie, Kansas: A Compromise Town
- Etzanoa: The Great Settlement Archaeology Forgot for Four Hundred Years
- Eugene Ware, the Poet Ironquill
- Fort de Cavagnial
- Fort Hays State University: From Guardhouse to Classroom
- Fort Hays: Custer, Buffalo Soldiers, and the Last Stand of the Plains War
- Fort Scott: Where Bleeding Kansas Was Fought in the Streets
- From Buffalo Hunter to Statesman: John Schlyer
- Frontier in Lincoln County
- Garden City: Feedlots, Refugees, and the High Plains
- Gardner Junction: Where the Trails Split
- Gas, Kansas: Zinc Capital of the World for a Decade
- General Leavenworth's Grave
- General McPherson Memorial Statue
- Geographic Center of the Contiguous United States
- Goodland: County Seat Won by a New Town
- Hays: From Thirty-Seven Saloons to Cathedral Country
- Highland Community College: Kansas's First College
- Hoisington: Built Around the Railroad They Wanted
- Homestead of a Genius
- International Forest of Friendship
- Junction City: Built to Serve the Fort
- Kan-O-Tex Service Station
- Kanorado: Exit One
- Lawrence and the Old Trails
- Lebo: A Pioneer's Name on a Railroad Town
- Lecompton: Where Slavery Almost Came to Kansas
- Liberal Army Air Field: One Quarter of All Liberator Commanders
- Liberal, Kansas: Dorothy's Town on the High Plains
- Linda Brown Walks to the Bus Stop
- Mariadahl, the Valley of Mary
- Marion, Kansas: The Swamp Fox's Town on the Cottonwood
- Matfield Green: An Englishman's Flint Hills Village
- Meade, Kansas
- Meades Ranch Triangulation Station
- Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty Site
- Medicine Lodge, Kansas
- Mid-America Air Museum: A Hundred Aircraft in the Kansas Flatlands
- Nemaha County: Muddy Water and the Edge of the Frontier
- Neosho Rapids and the County That Changed Its Name
- Nicodemus: The Town That Refused to Disappear
- Oakley: Where Buffalo Bill Earned His Name
- Oakley: Where Buffalo Bill Got His Name
- Oberlin: The Last Raid
- Olpe
- Olsburg's Swedish Pioneers
- Osborne: The Geodetic Center of North America
- Ottawa and the Ottawa Nation
- Pawnee: Kansas's Five-Day Capital
- Peabody, Kansas: Prairie Town Named for a Banker
- Peter Pan Park
- Phog Allen
- Pony Express Home Station, Marysville
- Pratt: Named for the Fallen, Built on the Plains
- Punished Woman's Fork: The Dull Knife Outbreak Reaches Kansas
- Quantrill's Raids and the Military Road
- Red Rocks: The Editor Who Talked to Presidents
- Red Rocks: William Allen White's Home in Emporia
- Russell, Kansas: Hometown of Bob Dole
- Salina, Kansas
- Scott City and El Cuartelejo: The Northernmost Pueblo
- Silkville: A Frenchman's Utopia
- Silkville: Kansas's French Silk Utopia
- Smith Center: Near the Middle of Everything
- Sod and Stubble
- Soldiers' Monument, Osawatomie
- Stapleton Oil Well Number One
- Steve Fossett Plaza
- Strawberry, Kansas
- Strother Army Airfield: Kansas Trains the Air Corps
- Stull: The Ghost Town That Keeps Its Secrets
- Sublette: The Mountain Man's Town
- Tallgrass Prairie: Eleven Thousand Acres of What Was Once Everything
- Tallgrass Prairie: The Sea of Grass That Once Covered a Continent
- Teter Rock
- The Baptiste Peoria Bust
- The Baxter Springs Massacre
- The Big Well, Greensburg
- The Buffalo Soldier Monument
- The Cathedral of the Plains: St. Fidelis Basilica, Victoria, Kansas
- The Custer Elm
- The Davis Memorial, Hiawatha
- The Exodusters
- The First Harvey House
- The Flood of Nineteen Ninety-Three
- The Fort Hays to Fort Dodge Trail
- The Geodetic Center of North America
- The Kansas State Capitol: Thirty-Seven Years and a Raging John Brown
- The Kaw Agency
- The Lawrence Massacre: Quantrill's Raid, August Twenty-First, Eighteen Sixty-Three
- The Mennonite Settler Statue
- The Native Stone Fences
- The Pony Express at Troy
- The Reconstructed Kaw House
- The Road That Connected a Continent
- Towanda, Kansas: River Valley, Stage Roads, and Oil
- Trading Post, Kansas
- Treece, Kansas
- Tuttle Creek Dam
- Victoria and the Cathedral of the Plains
- Waconda Springs
- WaKeeney: The Queen City That Wasn't
- Walrond's Stockade
- Warkentin and the Wheat That Fed the Plains
- Warkentin House: The Man Who Brought Turkey Red Wheat to Kansas
- Wellsville: Built by the Santa Fe
- Williamsburg: Founded on Sac and Fox Land
- Wilson: Czech Capital of the Kansas Plains
- Winfield, Kansas: The Chautauqua on the Prairie
- Woodson County Courthouse: Thirteen Kansas Courthouses, One Architect
- World's Largest Baseball
- Yocemento: The Town That Named Itself After the Thing That Killed It