Excerpt from Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1907-1908, Vol. 10: Embracing Addresses at Annual Meetings; The Centennial of Zebulon Montgomery Pike's Visit, Including a Review of One Hundred Years Under the Flag; Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Free-State Territorial Legislature, 1857; Also the First State Legislature<br><br>Volume X covers the beginning of things in Kansas in a sense more completely than ever before. The wonderfully able paper of John B. Dunbar, The White Man's Foot in Kansas, must assure the students of that period that it was the fertile plains of Kansas to which Coronado and Padilla came. These worthies. Are no longer myths, but living realities, While the Pawnees. With whom they sojourned, connect that visit with the present, and give a continuous thread to the history of our state.<br><br>George P. Morehouse, in his admirable paper, has first put. Together a history of the Kansas Indians, and has given a new source for the charmed name of the state.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.