It would parallel the growing national expression of interest in the frontier. While frontier life was patent to no State. Kansas was unique in this era of our Nations development because virtually all westerndestined emigrants passed through its borders or settled within it. In fact. had it not been for the sustenance of its prairie. its waters. and its wildlife. the history of the settlement of the West might have taken a different course. Thus virtually every frontier story had its origin in Kansas either directly in the area through which the parkway would pass or at points related closely to it.
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