City of Columbus, Cherokee County, Kansas

Kansas Historic Preservation Resources

The Medical Front WWI, All medical aspects & history, military and civilian, of World War One, the Great War

Cherokee County KS Web Sites

General Sites

• Cherokee County, Tom and Carolyn Ward

Art and Theater

• Artists In Kansas Kansas Art Centers, Kansas Art Galleries, KS Art Museums
• Beats In Kansas: The Beat Generation in the Heartland
• William Burroughs Photo Gallery (1914 - August 2, 1997) Beats In Kansas
• The Kansas Guidebook for explorers, by Marci Penner. A tour of every organized city in the state. 432-page book with 400+ color photos and 3,597 entries.

Events and Festivals

• Kansas Art Events
• Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame AwardsBoot Hill Museum, Dodge City

History Groups

• Cherokee County, Kansas State Historical Society

History Web Directories

• Kansas Heritage Group Web Sites
• Kansas History Web Sites: Directory of historical Kansas persons and events
• Kansas History Resources: Kansas Genealogy, Kansas Libraries, Kansas Museums
• Kansas Official History Site

Humanities

• Kansas Humanities Council

WWW-VL: United States History

• Kansas History Gateway Lynn H. Nelson, Established 1993
• USA History Maps
• Kansas Timeline
• The Coming of the Civil War 1850-1860
• The Civil War 1860-1865
• WWW-VL: History 1920s History
• WWW-VL: History 1930s History
• WWW-VL: History 1960s History
• American West History: The expansion of America's West; Old West history
• WWW-VL: History: Military History
• WWW-VL: History: Internet & W3 History of the internet and the worldwideweb
• WWW-VL: History of Science, Technology & Medicine

Schools

• USD #508, Baxter Springs

Colleges and Universities

• Coffeyville Community College
• Independence Community College
• Pittsburg State University Pittsburg, Kansas

Virtual Colleges

• Fort Hays State University Virtual College
• Kansas State University Div. of Continuing Ed.

Museums

• Baxter Springs Heritage Center and Museum, Baxter Springs
• Big Brutus Inc., West Mineral. The world's second largest (16-stories high)
  electric mining shovel, West Mineral
Big Brutus Bucyrus Erie model 1850B electric mining shovel, from Wikipedia
• Columbus Museum A colorful look at the history of Columbus, including native Merle Evans the 50-year
  band leader of the Ringling Brothers Circus, Columbus
• Heart of the Heartlands Preserving Railroad History, Carona and Scammon, Kansas
• Southwest Pueblo Pottery Wichita
• Kansas Museums
• WWW-VL: History US History Museums

Native Prairie and Flowers

• Fred's Flower Finder Southwest Kansas Wildflowers
• Kansas Sights KS Heritage
• Native Kansas Prairie Wildflowers and Tallgrass Kansas Heritage

Website Tools

• WWW-VL: History: W3 Search Engines Internet search engines worldwide,
  search engine tips, website tools, virus and spyware protection

Columbus Tourism

• Seth Thomas Clocktower (1919), Photograph, Columbus
• History of 1919 Seth Thomas 40-foot Clocktower, Columbus

Government

• State and National
• Gov. Sam Brownback, emporiagazette.com

Genealogy

• Kansas Interactive Genealogy
• Source List for Genealogy Research, 1000s of genealogy links, Kansas Heritage Group
• Kansas History Resources
  Kansas Genealogy, Kansas Libraries, Kansas Museums

Libraries

• Andrew Carnegie Public Library, Columbus

Family History

• PITSENBERGER, Flavius Josephus [Labette, Cherokee]
• Family History (all with Kansas ties)
• Kansas Surname List, Kansas Heritage Group
• Pioneer Trails From U.S. Land Surveys Kansas Heritage
• Merle Evans Bandmaster of 'Greatest Show on Earth'

Graphics

• Portrait Gallery of Eminent Early-Day Kansans

Maps

• Old Kansas Area Maps Kansas Collection
• Interactive Map of Kansas Kansas Community Network

Local History

• History of Baxter Springs from History of Cherokee County, Kansas by N. T. Allison, 1904
• History of Columbus from History of Cherokee County, Kansas, by N. T. Allison, 1904
• History of Cherokee Co. part of Cutler's History of Kansas1883
• History Directory of Kansas Towns (HDKT)
• Interactive Santa Fe Trail
• Kansas Sights
• Portrait Gallery of Eminent Early-Day Kansans
• Old West Photograph Gallery FCHS, Dodge City
• Racing In Kansas Kansas Racers, Kansas Race Clubs, Kansas Race Tracks
• Evolution In Kansas Intelligent Design, Creationism, Evolution Theory
• Kansas Timeline

Old West Kansas

• Old West Kansas, Native tribes to pioneer west, Kansas Heritage Group
• Old West Kansas Cowtowns KS cowboys, cattletowns, pioneers
• Old West Kansas Forts Ft. Leavenworth to Ft. Dodge, KS
• Old West Kansas Gunfighters KS lawmen, outlaws
• Old West Kansas Peoples Immigration to KS
• Old West Kansas Plains and Emigrant Tribes Native Americans (Indians)
• Old West Kansas Railroads
• Old West Kansas Trails

Books and Articles

• AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History from 1400s to 2000s
• WWW-VL: History First site on the World Wide Web Virtual Library
• Web Stacks: Electronic Research Library
• WWW-VL: Web Ethics
• Cutler's "History of the State of Kansas" (1883) (Kansas Collection)
• WWW-VL: US History Journals
• Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas James C. Malin

One Room School Houses

• One Room School House Photograph Gallery

Southeast Kansas Towns

Burlington Columbus Erie Fort Scott Fredonia Garnett Girard

Independence Iola Mound City Oswego Paola Yates Center