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At the light of early dawn flaming in the way,
I would roll my blanket up, rub my sleeping eyes;
boil my coffee in a can, make it good 'n strong,
start another happy day with a cowboy song.
Goin' home, goin' home, where the coyotes howl and cattle roam,
goin' home to stay.
Where the skies are always blue,
Where the friends are always true,
Goin' home, going, goin' home... yo d'lay de hooo....
-- Cowboy Poetry, Anonymous
We listen to winds over the grasslands: once through this country is enough.
-- Diane Glancy, "Black Kettle National Grasslands, Western Oklahoma", in Offering : Poetry and Prose, Holy Cow! Press, 1988
The stranger [to Kansas], if he listened to the voice of
experience, would not start upon his pilgrimage at any season of the year
without an overcoat, a fan, a lightning rod, and an umbrella.
-- John James Ingalls, In Praise of Blue Grass, 1875
I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburrs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces or satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You've got to show me. -- Willard D. Vandiver
Kansas, in sum, is one of our finest states and lives a sane, peaceful, and prosperous life. -- Pearl S. Buck
If I went West, I think I would go to Kansas. -- Abraham Lincoln
Since the world beyond Kansas has been so well guidebooked, the only trip left us is inward. -- John Krich, New York Times Book Review, 1989
They call Kansas the "Sunflower State", not because it is overrun with the noxious weed, but because, as the sunflower turns on its stem to catch the first beams of the morning sun, and with its broad disk and yellow rays follows the great orb of the day, so Kansas turns to catch the first rays of every advancing thought or civilized agency, and with her broad prairies and golden fields welcomes and follows the light. -- Editorial, Burlington (Kansas Nonpareil (1887), related by William Least Heat-Moon, PrairyErth, p. 419.
A Missourian gets used to Southerners thinking him a Yankee, a Northerner considering him a cracker, a Westerner sneering at his effete Easternness, and the Easterner taking him for a cowhand. -- Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon, p. 27
To understand why people say 'Dear old Kansas!' is to understand that Kansas is no mere geographical expression, but a state of mind, a religion, and a philosophy in one. -- Carl Becker, from Bill Sowers
Some people say Kansas is flat... it's not. -- Chuck Richeson, Topeka, on finishing the Biking Across America, Saturday June 16, 2006, quoted in the Chanute Tribune, Tuesday, June 20, 2006
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Susan M. Johns-Smith
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