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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sacred Heart High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Salina, Kansas. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salina. Sacred Heart High School was established in 1908 by four Sisters of St. Joseph. It moved to its present location in 1960. Sacred Heart High School offers a North Central Association of Colleges and Schools accredited comprehensive curriculum that provides for a wide range of student interests and abilities. In addition to regular academic offerings and special education, there are many elective courses in the arts, sciences and industrial/vocational areas. ... Read more

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Danger Close To Home

Papa is in danger for helping to rescue a free-state settler who was unjustly arrested by Kansas's proslavery sheriff. He has gone into hiding, and Momma and the Keller children are alone in their remote cabin while marauding border ruffians are roaming the countryside, looking for livestock to steal.

But there's a lot more at stake at the Keller homestead than their chickens and cows. Charlie has come upon Lizzie, a runaway slave girl trying to make her way to freedom in Canada, and the Kellers are hiding her at their cabin. With the violence in Kansas Territory escalating, the Underground Railroad isn't running. Can Charlie and his family keep Lizzie safe until she can escape from Kansas? ... Read more

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Civil War
Here is another book by Hopkinson, but this time a chapter book story for older elementary. This story is about a boy whose family is fighting in the Civil War and his personal experience with finding a runaway slave.The book contains interesting pencil drawings to illustrate the story.Besides the obvious bridge to Civil War history, the availability of multiple books by this author could enable an author study in this case.

Great historical fiction!
My kids love this series!The story is suspenseful and easy to read at the same time. I'm always looking for good books that will keep my son's attention.As a reluctant reader, my son needs stories with a tight plot and lots of action, and it's sometimes hard to find books he will like.But he really loves the Prairie Skies series.And I know it will help both my kids understand this period of history a lot better. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Jodi Jamison, a performer in her uncle's circus, and Maximo Reyes, an aspiring lion tamer, escape from a circus train crash, only to find themselves on a narrow trestle undermined by rushing water!. ... Read more

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best of the series!
I'm not a fan of the series but this one is great. I read hurricane{boring} and attempted titanic [to boring to finish] but this was great! Max is a future lion tamer and jodi used to walk the highwire. {her mom was injured badly when she fell off one and she can't find the will to go back on} when the train crashes they escape alive but it might have been better they did'nt with what they are going to face.

COOLEST!!!!
These books are way awesome. They are so real and lifelike you feel like you are there. And they way they put fictional characters in famous or every day disaters isvery intriguing. Duey and Bale had better keepwriting these because no one wants to lose a good thing.

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Now I would like the world to know that everyone who likes to read should be reading these books.These books are da' best in da' world. I've read every single one of them and they got my 2 thumbs and five stars.Karenand Kathleen better be able to hear this, they also get my two thumbs upand my five stars. Keep writin'.The next book should be #12 Tornado, #13Tsunami, and #14 Avalanche.

Train Wreck is another great Survival! book.
Maximo Reyes is a Mexican orphan who joined a travelling circus and hopes to become a lion tamer. Thirteen year old Jodi Jamison and her father are performers in the same circus. Jodi used to be a high wire walker, but eversince her mother was badly injured after a fall last year, Jodi has losther nerve. When their train wrecks one stormy night, both Max and Jodi mustface their worst fears if they can even begin to hope to live through themost dangerous night of their young lives. I highly reccomend this book,along with the other Survival! books by Kathleen Duey and Karen A. Bale. ... Read more

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Presents the history, geography, people, politics and government, economy, social life and customs, state events and attractions, and notable people of Kansas, which is named for the Kaw (Kansa) Indians. ... Read more

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Chapters: Wichita Collegiate School, Cair Paravel-Latin School, Sumner Elementary School, Burlington Elementary School (Burlington, Kansas), Earhart Environmental Magnet Elementary School, Topeka Lutheran School, Kansas State School for the Blind, Kansas State School for the Deaf, Linwood Elementary School, Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy, Oak Hill Elementary School. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Wichita Collegiate School is a private, co-educational, non-denominational, and non-profit college preparatory day school founded in 1963 currently enrolling 966 children from preschool through 12th grade located at 9115 E. 13th Street, Wichita KS, 67206. The headmaster is Tom Davis. Wichita Collegiate School has built a statewide reputation for academic excellence. The school motto is: "Probe te Dignum" (Latin for "Prove Yourself Worthy") Wichita Collegiate School was originally conceived in the 1950s as an alternative to Wichita public education. Its name was originally Wichita Independent Day School. The founder and first chairman of Wichita Collegiate claimed in his book, How to Start Your Own School, that, "Traditional private and parochial schools either eagerly emulate public institutions or are coerced by the state into doing so through acceptance of government accreditation and certification regulations ... Collegiate was independent of both church and state from the beginning for very practical reasons. All of us had already rejected state-run schools as being a restrictive, inefficient way to educate children. To be consistent, we decided against any association with the state in our new education venture. This meant no special legislative favors, no participation in government loan or grant programs, no state accreditation, and no requiremen...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2440351 ... Read more

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Probated Estates in Kansas, 1940 and 1950: An Analysis of Their Size and Compositions (Bureau of Business Research, School of Business, University of Kansas) ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kansas City, Missouri School District, or KCMSD is a school district headquartered at 1211 McGee Street in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri. It is west to east from the Kansas/Missouri border line to western Independence and Raytown. It is north to south from the Missouri River to Hickman Mills. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: State Printer; Publication date: 1899; Subjects: Law / Educational Law ... Read more

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The first major migration to the North ofex-slaves. ... Read more

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Lovely
I highly recommend this book to history buffs. I give this book a 4 star.The real reason for Black folks migrating to Kansas was being murdered and terrorized by the white population, plain and simple.
There was talk of going to Africa, specifically to Liberia, but the cost to get there was out of the reach of the masses of poor freeman.They just wanted to left alone to live their lives in peace and dignity.

Unfortunately, only a small number were able to get to Kansas.There was a successful and concerted effort by the government to keep their cheap black labor in the South on the plantations, under near slave conditions.

When many of our ancestors got to Saint Louis waiting for a boat to take them across the river, the river boatmen were made to ignore the mass of humanity or the shores or suffer the consequences.
I recommend this book.

History in context
Painter does an excellent job of providing the context of the Exodus of freed African Americansfrom Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas to Kansas, particularly the mass migration in March and April 1879 from Louisiana.The records and stories of the participants are limited, and the story is usually told from the perspective of the elite Black leadership, but Painter has told it from the viewpoint of the folks on the ground, showing the grassroots origin of the idea, its Biblical roots, and the bewilderment of Black as well as White leadership in dealing with something they were not leading.

A fascinating story from a unique perspective.

daughter of a jayhawker
The book was an easy and very informative read for me.I am the family historian and this added additional depth to my family research.When you delve into the history during the time your ancestors were living and experiencing it, it adds another dimension to your research. My mother's famiy were slaves in Overton Co. Tennessee and made the exodus to Kansas.

A Sobering Reminder
This is a good solid historical account.Well documented and relentless in the telling of the story.It was another reminder for me of the intensity of the oppression of the American southern blacks before and after the Civil War.Once Reconstruction was effectively ended in 1876, the black people of the South were abandoned by the politicians of the North and left to the tender mercies of the southern planters and their hired help.

The Exoduster movement involved the movement of approximately 6,000 southern blacks from the South to Kansas starting around 1876 and peaking in 1879.It was a reaction to the terrorism used by the planter class and the white authorities of that time to keep the blacks in their place politically andeconomically.The fact that blacks outnumbered the white planter class and their minions in parts of the South meant that "appropriate methods" needed to be used by these same people to prevent the black populace from voting.

A story worth telling and well told by the author.It is a well documented and footnoted book.The book pays homage to the courageous spirit of the Exodusters, but also provides a reality check against those that would have us conveniently forget terrible injustices in our history.

Something to remember as we go forward in our grand national adventures in this year of our Lord, 2007.

Where are the voices of the 'Dusters?
The migration of the Exodusters, blacks who moved to Kansas searching for a place in whichto be truly free, is a massive and massively overlooked part of history.Nell Painter, in her book Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction, does a credible job of restoring this overlooked part of frontier history to the realm of academic discussion.It is a good book, yet, disturbingly, the voice of the Exodusters is missing. Painter claims that the exact number of Exodusters is unknown, but estimates from 6,000 to 20,000 have been made (184).Constrained by the prices gouged out of their harvests by tenant bosses, they dreamed of a land of milk and honey.This dream, in turn, with a small amount of exaggeration, helped to send them looking in Kansas for what they wanted.Yet, most of this book is about the conditions that led to the movement of the Exodusters and not what they found there, or how they adapted to life in a strange land.There are no reminiscences, no narratives, or stories from descendents.Painter points out the Southern credit system crushed them economically (55), that their schools were inferior (50) because of the practice of hiring deficient white teachers over exemplary black instructors, but there is no mention of whether or not change was achieved in Kansas.
Stylistically, Painter has the odd habit of taking end paragraphs to both sum up the previous chapter and introduce the next chapter.It breaks the flow of the book and makes it difficult to read.Also at times, Painter seems to be saying too much too fast.Some of her ideas, the study of black schools and the racial politics that controlled them, and the lineage of the black spiritual/political leaders for example, are books in themselves.
Early on, Painter posits that class was just as important as race in the history of the Exodusters (vii).Respectable African-Americans, that is those who agreed with the Anglos, who had been to white schools and spoke like the whites, came out against the Exoduster movement, and for the political party of the planter.Interestingly enough, in the discussion of class issues, Painter doesn't touch much on the poor whites and how they felt about the black movement to Kansas.For example, whether it became easier for them to find work and buy land.Painter is silent on this issue, other than mentioning that poor whites had at one point united with poor blacks in political clubs (39).
Painter argues that it was the enactment of certain rules that led to the Southern black's desire to leave the South.These rules forced black membership in "clubs" that obligated them to vote a Democratic party line, required passes to move around freely, and attempted to stop them for owning property.The well-known poll tax (37) is an example of these rules that were an attempt to control and curtail the political power of the African American.These rules led to stress and that stress bred a desire to move whether it be to Africa, to Kansas, or to Oklahoma to establish that territory as a black state (259).
Painter does a good job of portraying the changing of the Exoduster leadership from the un-educated but intelligent Henry Adams and the spiritual leader Pap Singleton, who saw the move to Kansas as one of Biblical import and spiritually motivated, to the classically Anglo-educated leaders who emerged in the beginning of the twentieth century.
In the first section of the book, Painter brings out the fact that for the first time since the Civil War, whites felt challenged by blacks.Many former slaves could read, they had bolstered their self-esteem through Army service in the war, they were older, wiser, able to buy property and the white planters, their former owners, were running scared (5).Painter spends a lot of time discussing the political machinations of the blacks and how the whites used political separation to help divide and conquer.The many different ways the wealthy whites attempted to stop the blacks from gaining power are detailed: "bulldozing", the terroristic activities by the KKK and groups like them, by disarming them, or out arming them by theft from government armories, and by stopping their attempts at cooperative ventures.
Although Painter does say that some whites "helped" the Blacks by warning them of bulldozing attacks, she claims that this was merely an attempt on the part of the whites to bolster their own opinion, making them feel better about themselves, and to disenfranchise the blacks by proving that they could not take care of themselves without the outside paternalistic influence of the Anglos (18).
Part Two of Exodusters involves the big figures of the movement, Henry Adams and Pap Singleton, a man who saw himself as the sole reason for Kansas immigration and that immigration as a holy obligation.These men helped lead the movement that casted around for a new black homeland.Cyprus, Liberia, and Kansas were all under consideration.All the factors that Painter had enumerated in the first part led to the desire and madness for moving that eventually landed tens of thousands of migrants in Kansas with no means of support and no free land as they had thought.
Painter details the different groups of Exodusters.The first came from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, and then later waves from the Gulf States.He discusses the political upheaval which this massive migration caused in both the states from which they were leaving and to the territory in which they would soon arrive. Rents suddenly dipped in the regions they had left, leading planters to promise safe-conduct and better treatment.This was a promise that many of the Exodusters treated warily and refused to accept (211).Finally, when reaction from the exodus had begun to set in, the South began to realize that it must change.Leading newspapers, for the first time, advocated the sale of property to blacks (240).Still though, many Exodusters didn't return.Painter's figure is that, "in early 1880 roughly fifteen thousand migrants still remained in Kansas" (256).
Painter points out that while the Kansas Fever Exodus was mad and rushed, with no central leadership and little thought given to actually making a living once arriving in Kansas, in contrast, later moves would be well-thought out and carefully planned.Yet all that careful planning did not keep the Exodusters and their saga alive in the minds of most Americans.It is especially tragic that because of the fact that the Exodusters were second class citizens, little if any of their accounts were recorded.It is America's loss as we attempt to come to terms with our national Western myth that we do not have more accounts like the Exodusters with which to work.
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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Dissertations, Academic; Education / Higher; Education / Reference; Language Arts ... Read more