Kansas

Of all the places I still want to see, I find myself going back to Kansas where i spent many child-hood summers. So what is Kansas City most famous for?

-The birth place of Hallmark cards

-Amelia Earheart- First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean- born in Kansas

-Former Senator Bob Dole

-The Mid-way & Wheat State

-Kansas has the largest population of wild grouse in North America.

The grouse is commonly called the prairie chicken.

-The world famous fast-food chain of Pizza Hut restaurants opened its first store in Wichita.

-Kansas inventors include Almon Stowger of El Dorado who invented the dial telephone in

1889; William Purvis and Charles Wilson of Goodland who invented the helicopter in 1909; and

Omar Knedlik of Coffeyville who invented the first frozen carbonated drink machine in 1961.

-Chicago got the nickname, but the actual windiest city in the United States is Dodge City,

Kansas, which has an average wind speed of 13.9 mph

-The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum starts and ends with a cyclone and is about a

girl from Kansas named Dorothy Gale.