Amazon Army was a group of several thousand wives, sweethearts,
and female relatives of striking miners who marched in December
1921 across the coalfields of southeast Kansas in courageous
protest against unfair labor laws and practices. 1921. Crawford
County. William Allen White, known as the "Sage of Emporia,"
from defending the 1st Amendment to fighting the Ku Klux Klan,
the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper editor was the primary
voice of the American heartland for almost five decades.
1868-1944. Emporia. John R. Brinkley shown with his wife Sarah
Burnett and son John. Brinkley's rise to fame and fortune was as
precipitous as his eventual fall; at the height of his career he
had amassed millions of dollars and fancy cars, and yet died
sick and nearly penniless, as a result of the large number of
malpractice, wrongful death and fraud suits brought against him.
Clyde Tombaugh uses the Zeiss Blink Comparator to search for the
ninth planet in the solar system, now named Pluto, at Lowell
Observatory near Flagst