DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION 
078 Western or Mountain 
Including general works on * the West’ 
Kansas 
1541 explored by Spanish 
30 May 1854 organized as separate territory, after successiv inclusion in Louisiana 
and Missouri territories 29 Jan. 1861 admitted as 34th state 
Area 81,774sq. mi. Population 1,769,257 in 1920 105 counties 
Sobriquets: Garden of the west, Sunflower state Capital: Topeka 
Northwest counties Population in 1920 
Cheyenne 
Sherman 
Wallace 
Rawlins 
Thomas 
Logan 
Decatur 
Sheridan 
Gove 
Norton 
Graham 
Trego 
Phillips 
Rooks 
Ellis 
Hays 
“entral north counties 
Smith 
Osborne 
Jewell 
Mitchell 
Republic 
Cloud 
Ottawa 
Washington 
Clay 
Riley 
Manhattan 
Geary 
Fort Riley 
Northeast counties 
Marshall 
Pottawatomie 
Nemaha 
Jackson 
Brown 
Doniphan 
Atchison 
Atchison 
Jefferson 
Leavenworth 
Leavenworth (city) 
Wyandotte 
Kansas City 
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